Who were the "gentlemen capitalists"? What, according to Cain and Hopkins, was their role in the formulation of the British Empire?

Ans- The period when the British were establishing political and commercial hegemony in southeast Asia also saw the foundation of the present-,day "Asian -tiger" economies.The gentlemen capitalist was not a paradox.His ethics assited his enterprise .

Actually gentalmen capitalism is a theory of new imperialism first put forward by the historians peter J.Cain and A.G.Hopkins in the 1980's and developed in their 1993 work of British imperialism According to Cain and Hopkins the role of gentalmen capitalist play a leading role in Btitain's overseas.they are genuinely all-embracing,with implications for Britain's economic development, social structure and politics .