explain all social effeect and social impact during british rule
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➡The Social and Economic Impact of British Rule in India!
➡Their impact on the cultural and social life of India was, however, gradual.
➡Till 1813, they followed a policy of non-interference in the social and cultural life of the Indians.
↪Yet, changes were taking place in these fields.
When the British first got to India, they were the poorest country in the world, when the left, it was among the richest. India by contrast was the richest in the world at the beginning and was among the poorest when the British left... so not very beneficial to say the least. The British did introduce the Indian postage system - but only for effective communications in the case of an uprising. The Indian railways were also introduced by the British - but it was used primarily to ship out raw materials so they could manufacture them in Britain and sell it back to India. They also abolished some out dated laws like suti - when a widow throws herself into her husbands funeral pyre. I think this was geniunely in the interest of progress but it had the by-effect of belittling local customs. They introduced a modern education system, but this didn't encourage entrepreneurship or things like that - rather it was designed to improve the locals ability to work (under the British) The Suez Canal greatly increased East-West contact by eliminating the necessity to go all the way around Africa. It made it more cost effective for the West to push imperialism into Asia. Now 2 specific examples of colonial resistance would be 1. What the British call the "India Mutiny" and the Indians call the "First War of Independence" in 1857. and 2. I would go with the Opium Wars with China.