discuss the changes that occur after the revolt of 1857.
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Well, one of the worst changes that were artificially manufactured by British after the revolt of 1857 was spreading hatred between Hindus & Muslims, thereby perfectly implementing their famous divide & rule policy, in order to weaken the unity among Indians so as to suffocate any future organized revolt by Indians. The sad part is - even today, some political parties are promoting the same divide & rule policy aka. Hindu-Muslim divide, just for their selfish personal gains. Apparently, there are numerous examples in history telling us that this ploy of divide & rule has devastated just about every country that came under its black spell. Take the example of India itself, a country that was deliberately divided by British into Hindustan & Pakistan. The British knew very well that a Unified India (after independence) had the potential to threaten the British Empire even after the religious divide they had spread there. The British had to take measures to erase any distant possibility of such a threat arising from independent India. So they put a non negotiable condition for Indian Independence from British occupation, which was - India had to be partitioned on religious grounds, in such a way that a large number of people are displaced. British imperialists knew (from prior experience) that the suffering & unrest from such divisive measures will create a permanent rift & natural hatred between the two newly born countries. As a consequence, these two countries (India & Pakistan) would be politically hostile to each other from the very beginning. The rest would be taken care of by foreign policy officials, who then made sure that this artificially incited hatred never subsides. Foreign Pressure & Heavy donations are given to the Politicians of both the countries to spew poison against each other, with full support by corporate media, which ensures that the true enemy (British Empire) is never threatened by these people. And if you doubt my words, then perhaps you need to look at the fate of countries that have been divided on ethnic lines. More recent examples include Zaire, Sudan, Yugoslavia, Iraq , Yemen, Uganda, etc. Lebanon is an exception, wherein the majority of Christians & Muslims have resisted all imperialist attempts to communally divide them into North & South Lebanon, even after decades of civil war.
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The revolt of 1857 was a reminder to British of the seething discontinent, having previously faced reverses in Punjab uprising and santhal rebillions in past two decades. The patronage, Army, Buying support, Strengthening urban bodies, Associating Indians, Foreign policy, are the changes in the administration after the revolt of 1857.