What made the Indians feel insecure when the British interfered in their religious matters?
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Answer:The British East India Company came as traders and became rulers and administrators, had influenced the economic and political systems of the country. During British rule, colonial India followed a policy of non-interference in the social, religious and cultural life of the fellow Indian till 1813 AD. After, 1813, British started the journey of transforming Indian society and cultural environment and this was happened due to the emergence of new ideas and thought via French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and Intellectual Revolution.
They started a new wave of thought by comparing Indian literature through rationalism, humanism, and doctrine of progress. In other words, we can say they started preaching the superiority of western thought. They tried to create inferiority complex by saying Indian text are lacked by faith in reason and scientific attitude. After creating hostility among Indian about their text and culture, they injected western education by replacing the traditional education in India. It is noteworthy that why were British capable of developing superiority complex on Indians. Because of Indians were divided over cast and creed, the British were capable to develop the Superiority complex against Indians.
Initially, British East India Company was not concerned with the development of education system because their prime motive was trading and profit-making. To rule in India, they planned to educate a small section of upper and middle classes to create a class “Indian in blood and colour but English in taste” who would act as interpreters between the Government and the masses. Hence, they came up with numerous acts and reforms like General Committee of Public Instruction, 1823; Lord Macaulay’s Education Policy, 1835; and at last Wood’s Dispatch, 1854 which is considered as the “Magna Carta of English Education in India” and contained comprehensive plan for spreading education in India.
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British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. The raj succeeded management of the subcontinent by the British East India Company, after general distrust and dissatisfaction with company leadership resulted in a widespread mutiny of sepoy troops in 1857, causing the British to reconsider the structure of governance in India. The British government took possession of the company’s assets and imposed direct rule. The raj was intended to increase Indian participation in governance, but the powerlessness of Indians to determine their own future without the consent of the British led to an increasingly adamant national independence movement.