How was communal divide in India promoted by the British?
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Communalism in India was manifested, nurtured and triggered by the British Empire, as a premeditated strategy to propagate dissents and discords.
EXPLANATION:
After the 1857 Indian Mutiny, the British set-up a divide-and-rule policy, taking advantage of variations between communities, to avert similar revolts from taking place. In that regard, Indian Muslims were influenced to create a political and cultural identity distinct from the Hindus. Communalism served the British administration to ‘divide and rule’ and thus the existing religion differences were first utilised to project the cultural and social disparities and then to trigger political partitions by treating Indians, however, as affiliates of religious communities.
The British India was separated into the religious communities and feudal principalities. The British administrators generated partition and tensions amongst these communities. Communal politics was fortified by them, for instance, a voter was classified as a Muslim or Hindu and so was a representative and a candidate.