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Policy

Of Non-Intervention Policy Of Intervention Factors Of British Intervention

POLICY OF NON-INTERVENTION


 

EIC was a trading company ; only wanted to make great profits through peaceful trading Did not want to interfere in local politics which might embroil them in war and unnecessary expenditure EIC busy developing its possessions in India Abolition of trade monopoly in 1834 brought other European trades into sea ; reduced the companys profits

POLICY OF INTERVENTION
      

Increase in demand for tin and other raw materials Need for new markets to buy British goods Need for new fields of investment Anarchy in the Malay States Change in British policy of non-intervention Opening of the Suez Canal and increased European interest in the East Fear of European rivals

POLITICAL FACTOR
- Change of British

ECONOMIC FACTOR
- Demand for tin & raw materials - Anarchy in the Malay States - Opening of the Suez Canal

policy

COMPETITION FACTOR
- New fields of

investments - New markets - Fear of rivals

POLICY OF INTERVENTION

INCREASE IN DEMAND FOR TIN AND OTHER RAW MATERIALS

   

Industrial Revolution Development of the tin-canning industry Malay States were very rich in tin To ensure supply of tin, Britain need to extend their control over the Malay States

NEED FOR NEW MARKETS TO BUY BRITISH GOODS

 

Industrial Revolution and large-scale production New territories would become new markets for British goods

NEED FOR NEW FIELDS OF INVESTMENT

   

Lost of EIC monopoly of the China trade Straits merchant lost much there and looked elsewhere to invest Malay States ideal because of agricultural and mineral wealth potential Wanted British government intervention in these states to bring about law and order so that they can invest safely in the tin mines and plantation

ANARCHY IN THE MALAY STATES

Causes o 1. Succession disputes  rival claimants to the throne o 2. Wars between secret societies  fighting for control of tin mines o 3. Piracy off the coast affected trade  Investors in the tin-mining states appealed to British government for protection


CHANGE IN BRITISH POLICY OF NON-INTERVENTION

1. Value of British investment in the Malay states  2. Change in British attitude o Lord Kimberley appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1870 o 1873 : Sir Andrew Clarke appointed as Governor of the Straits Settlements


Lord Kimberley, Secretary of State

Sir Andrew Clarke, Governor of the Straits Settlements

3. Change of government in Britain in 1873 o Conservative Party ; Benjamin Disraeli o Favoured imperialism to boost British prestige o Forward Policy extend British control over more colonies overseas


SUEZ CANAL & EUROPEAN INTEREST IN THE EAST

  

Trade between East & West New route : shorter, cheaper & faster to get to the East Straits of Malacca : importance as a trade route to China

FEAR OF EUROPEAN RIVALS

France o spreading control in Indo-china  Holland o expanding into Indonesia  Spain o established in the Philippines


Russia o looking for new colonies  Germany o after reunification in 1871, desperately looking for colonies in the East