Address the following question in a short essay (2-3 pages; 3 pages max).

Analyzing and using at least one of the documents linked to below, how did the British (and some of their native apologists) justify their conquest of South Asia?

• Speech of Robert Clive to the House of Commons, 1772 https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1772clive-india.asp Links to an external site.
• Dadabhai Naoroji, The Benefits of British Rule, 1871, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.asp Links to an external site.
• Macaulay, On Empire and Education: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1833macaulay-india.asp Links to an external site.