5) ORIGIN OF COLONIALIZATION IN ASIA:

 Introduction:
Colonialism is defined as “control by one power
over a dependent area or people.” It occurs when one nation
subjugates another, conquering its population and exploiting it,
often while forcing its own language and cultural values upon its
people. By 1914, a large majority of the world's nations had been
colonized by Europeans at some point.
Several different Western European
powers established colonies in Asia during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Each of the imperial powers had its own style
of administration, and colonial officers from the different nations
also displayed various attitudes towards their imperial subjects.

 Great Britain:
The British Empire was the largest in the world
prior to World War II and included a number of places in Asia. Those
territories include what is now Oman, Yemen, the United Arab
Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Myanmar (Burma), Sri
Lanka (Ceylon), the Maldives, Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya), Brunei,
Sarawak and North Borneo (now part of Indonesia), Papua New
Guinea, and Hong Kong. The crown jewel of all of Britain's overseas
possessions around the world, of course, was India.
The British took a
paternalistic view of their colonial subjects, feeling a duty — the
"white man's burden," as Rudyard Kipling put it — to Christianize and
civilize the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the New World. In Asia, the
story goes, Britain built roads, railways, and governments, and
acquired a national obsession with tea.
 France:
France was the second most powerful empire of that
time. Although France sought an extensive colonial empire in Asia,
its defeat in the Napoleonic Wars left it with just a handful of Asian
territories. Those included the 20th-century mandates
of Lebanon and Syria, and more especially the key colony of French
Indochina — what is now Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
French attitudes about colonial subjects
were, in some ways, quite different from those of their British
rivals. Some idealistic French sought not just to dominate their
colonial holdings, but to create a "Greater France".

 Netherland:
The Dutch competed and fought for control of
the Indian Ocean trade routes and spice production with the British,
through their respective East India Companies. For the Dutch, this
colonial enterprise was all about money.

 Colonial Regions Of Asia:

The regions where the colonies of
Asia was Southeast Asia. Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and
other were the imperialist countries that had colonies in Southeast
Asia. Portugal also had a colony in the region but had the least
impact. The people who lived in the colonial area was agriculture
related. So, the empires took advantage of it and by renting loans to
them they indirectly took over there lands and made their colonies
on that land.