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  • It exploited the people of the colonies. Then the economic condition of the people of the colonies became precarious when raw-materials were taken away from their countries to the mother country.
  • The colonial masters brought new and unfamiliar systems of government which the inhabitants were not familiar with.
  • These systems of government gave less importance to, and had less regard for the systems of government of the colonies.
  • The methods of ruling which were introduced to the colonies were completely different from what the natives were used to.
  • The mother country had to fight with the native rulers. Due to constant wars, peace in different colonies was lost.
  • Colonialism gave birth to an ugly tradition like slavery. The mother country sold many people of her colony at different places of the world. At Lisbon, there was a slave market. Slaves were sold there as chattels.
  • Colonialism created a wall between the ruler and the ruled. The ruler-race hated the colonial people and oppressed them. The people of different colonies revolted against the foreign people and carried protracted struggle against them.
  • Colonialism prompted the rulers to adopt the Policy of ‘Divide and Rule’ in Colony. The result of this policy was disastrous.
  • This Colonialism created dissension between the Hindus and Muslims in India which resulted into division of the country into India and Pakistan.
  • Colonialism contributed vastly to the loss and destruction of cultural norms and values of inhabitants.
  • First of all the native languages of the colonies were made lower to the languages of the colonial masters.
  • The mode of dressing of the people changed. Natives of the colonies started to dress and speak like the colonial masters as they were made to believe that their colonial masters were superior human beings.
  • It created a dependency relationship between the colonial powers and the colonies. Colonialism changed, for example, Africa’s economic and social priorities to meet the needs of Europeans.
  • Colonialism led to a considerable outflow of financial resources. It is best recognized in the case of British India, where a controversy between Indian historians and protectors of British colonialism still has not been settled.
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