How colonial rule facilitated Indian consciousness to emerge? Discuss
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1. Colonial rule unified all of Indian for the first time politically and administratively. 2. Colonial rule brought in the forces of modernization and Capitalist economic change. 3. However this economic, political and administrative unification of India under colonial rule was got at great expense. 4. Colonial exploitation and domination scared the whole Indian society in different ways. 5. Colonialism also gave birth to its own enemy—nationalism. The concept of modem Indian nationalism took shape under British Colonialism. 6. The rampant exploitation and the shared experience of colonial domination helped unity and exercise different sections of the Indian society. It also created new classes and communities. The Urban middle classes were the prime carrier of nationalism.