After all, Thomas Jefferson did the same thing the British Empire did in India....................since the American west back in 1800 was made up of a bunch of heterogenous tribes.......................like ancient India, he did he same thing the British Empire did............found who was enemy with whom, who allied with whom..............and pitted one type agianst another..............and spread diseases..........then when they were weaker...............the Americans came with troops................they let them kill off each other............and what was left were confused and bitter..............it was easier to take over the American west like that....................he just followed what the British Empire had done in India 100s of years before...........it didn't work in China......................why?  Simple, China is far more homogenous than India...........................

East India Company in Asia

See also: British Raj

An 1876 political cartoon ofBenjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) making Queen VictoriaEmpress of India. The caption was "New crowns for old ones!"

The East India Company drove the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The Company's army had first joined forces with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, and the two continued to co-operate in arenas outside India: the eviction of Napoleon from Egypt (1799), the capture of Java from the Netherlands (1811), the acquisition of Singapore (1819) and Malacca (1824) and the defeat of Burma (1826).^[89]

From its base in India, the Company had also been engaged in an increasingly profitable opium export trade to China since the 1730s. This trade, illegal since it was outlawed by theQing dynasty in 1729, helped reverse the trade imbalances resulting from the British imports of tea, which saw large outflows of silver from Britain to China.^[95] In 1839, the confiscation by the Chinese authorities at Canton of 20,000 chests of opium led Britain to attack China in the First Opium War, and resulted in the seizure by Britain of Hong Kong Island, at that time a minor settlement.^[96]

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries the British Crown began to assume an increasingly large role in the affairs of the Company. A series of Acts of Parliament were passed, including the Regulating Act of 1773, Pitt's India Act of 1784 and the Charter Act of 1813 which regulated the Company's affairs and established the sovereignty of the Crown over the territories that it had acquired.^[97] The Company's eventual end was precipitated by the Indian Rebellion, a conflict that had begun with the mutiny of sepoys, Indian troops under British officers and discipline.^[98] The rebellion took six months to suppress, with heavy loss of life on both sides. The following year the British government dissolved the Company and assumed direct control over India through the Government of India Act 1858, establishing the British Raj, where an appointed governor-general administered India and Queen Victoriawas crowned the Empress of India.^[99] India became the empire's most valuable possession, "the Jewel in the Crown", and was the most important source of Britain's strength.^[100]

A series of serious crop failures in the late 19th century led to widespread famines on the subcontinent in which it is estimated that over 15 million people died. The East India Company had failed to implement any coordinated policy to deal with the famines during its period of rule. Later, under direct British rule, commissions were set up after each famine to investigate the causes and implement new policies, which took until the early 1900s to have an effect.^[101]