Question

Conditions in india before the british arrived?

Answer 1

f civilisation is to be measured by the standard attained in science, art, architecture, agriculture, industry, medicine, laws, philosophy and religion, then the great States of India at that period were well worthy of comparison with the most enlightened and cultured parts of Europe and no European monarch could be reckoned as in any way superior to Akbar, Aurungzeb, Shah-Jehan, or Shivaji; while it would be hard to name any European Minister of Finance equal to Toder Mull and Nana Furvana.

Previous invaders and conquerors of India mostly settled in the conquered territory and invariably employed the natives in the highest posts civil and military. Native ability was made use of in every department of the administration. Men of capacity, however humble their birth, might and did rise to be the highest functionaries of a Mohammedan monarch or became the heads of considerable Hindoo Empires themselve