ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between Britain and China. The relationship between British power in India and in China was shaped by the opium trade, by the deployment of British Indian military power. The chapter explores the British India/British China relationship through the formal structures that shaped it through issues of war and defence, commerce, people and ideas. The chapter overviews how British India was embedded in the structures and processes, as well as the assumptions and ambitions, of British China. It's necessary to consider both the formal structures binding British India and British China, and the place of India in shaping British anxieties and ambitions. The British Indian character of the British China presence was initially shaped by monopoly, and by makeshift. The chapter demonstrates, It needs to be remembered that the relationship was shaped by the agency of individuals, whether powerful commercial figures such as Sir Victor Sassoon, or highly mobile migrant workers such as Hardit Singh.
