Explain the social impact of the company rules in India
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Equality before the law: British introduced uniform laws in all the Indian territories under their direct control. ... Thus, they denied traditional social privileges to the upper castes and helped reduce caste discrimination in Indian society
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The impact of the British Raj can be seen from architecture, education, the courts, hospitals, clubs and Theater arts. The red post boxes, the double-decker buses, rickshaws were all introduced by the British. Political system, banks, taxation, and the railways all owe their origins to the British.
The entire british rule can be divided in three phases :
Phase 1 : India’s colonized rule was based on purely commercial and financial perspective.
Phase 2 : It was based on expansion and maintaining power.
Phase 3 : The Victorian period based upon a new restructuring of the government in India.
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The Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century and caused demand for cheap resources. The British wanted to turn India into an agrarian society responsible for supplying England with the necessary products it needed. Hence the British forced farmers to grow many commercial crops like tea, coffee, indigo, opium, cotton, jute, and sugarcane.
The British brought many changes to India, economically and culturally. Before colonization, women were treated very poorly and did not have many rights. The British banned the practice of sati in which widows would burn herself over her husband's ashes.
Sports like Cricket, football and tennis were introduced into India by the British. Jobs under British required knowledge of english hence many Indian’s learnt to speak english and it became the language of the educated. Many Indians traveled to England to study and develop their habits, ideas.
The introduction of the railways in particular helped to break down barriers of religion and caste. People from different religions and social backgrounds, traveled in a railway compartment thereby challenging the age- old orthodox notions of untouchability and caste barrier.
The British, who had come as traders later became rulers and had influenced the economic and political systems of the country on a whole.