Epistrategus set
This set contains all the riotous colors of Asia in the early 20th century. British India, Indochina, Indonesia, China, Korea, Japan, Arabia and Mongolia. Glittering jeweled outfits, fabulously wealthy rulers, poverty and slavery.
The height of colonialism. The era of imperialist exploitation of the colonies, when a system of commodity exchange favorable to the metropoles crystalised, but at the same time the export of capital from the metropoles to the colonies increased, which had wide-ranging consequences for the economic and political situation of the countries of the East and West. Proponents of the modernisation theory in modern historiography conclude that although the colonial powers proceeded from their own political and economic interests when carrying out transformations in colonies, these transformations at the same time objectively contributed to the growth of productive forces in the colonies, to the change and complication of the structure of colonial society,
which was accompanied by the emergence and formation of the industrial bourgeoisie, working class and intelligentsia. In socio-economic terms, the colonies developed even faster than the so-called dependent countries that enjoyed formal sovereignty. The largest colonial power was Great Britain, which controlled Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India with Burma and Pakistan, a significant part of Africa and Malaysia with Singapore. And also had a sphere of influence in China. France controlled Indochina, Africa from Tunisia in the north to the Congo in the south. Germany controlled Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon, Togo, some islands in Oceania. A small Belgium controlled the Congo and the Netherlands controlled Indonesia. Portugal controlled Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and the island of Timor…
Most widely represented here, of course, are British India and French Indochina. The British Raj remained the main colonial province of the British Empire, epitomizing the power and grandeur of British imperialism. It is for this reason
that historiography often endows India with the epithet of the 'jewel' of the British Empire. Most historians proceed, among other things, from the fact that India's enormous wealth of natural resources and minerals, which, at the initiative of the British Colonial Office, was channeled into the development of the economic sphere not only of the empire as a whole, but also of India in particular. India's special status was also emphasized by the fact that since 1876 British monarchs had held the title "Emperor of British India", while the imperial title had historically been higher than the royal title. The territory encompassed the lands of the modern states of India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The term British India is usually used to refer to the entire colonial domain, although strictly speaking it referred only to those parts of the subcontinent under direct British rule; beyond
these territories there were so-called "native principalities" that were formally only in vassalage to the British Empire. We will talk more about the British Empire in the next sets of our series.
And now the Union Indochinoise, which included the territory of Vietnam captured by France from 1858 to 1884, divided into the colony of Cochinchina, the protectorate of Annam and the protectorate of Tonkin. French Indochina also included the protectorate of Cambodia and the protectorate of Laos, captured in the 1860s and 1890s, as well as the territory of Guangzhouwan leased from China. France was a huge colonial empire; the territory of the French colonies was twenty times that of the metropolis, and the colonies had a population of 55 million. At the beginning of the twentieth century, France remained one of the most developed countries in the world. But in terms of industrial production it began to lag behind the United States, Germany and England. The loss of the war with Germany in 1871 and the lack of its own raw materials were the factors...
Each tin soldier is handmade by the finest craftsmen in the industry.
Here are all 24 miniatures from the set.
(please click on the picture to learn more about each miniature and the character depicted)
Chandra Shumsher
Jung Bahadur
Faisal bin Turki
Sayajirao
Gaekwad III
Pratap Singh
of Jammu and Kashmir
Madho Rao Scindia
Krishna Raja
Wadiyar IV
Mahboob Ali Khan
Ibrahim of Johor
Hassan Ali Mirza
Victor Duleep Singh
