which all spheres of the Indian society were targeted by the British in gaining control?What happened with the introduction of English education
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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.
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The British, being merchants, first and foremost targeted the economic base of the Indians. They ruined the cottage and small-scale industries, thereby hitting the backbone of the country.
They also targeted the social and religious practices of the Indians leading to stabilisation of the moral fabric of the Indian existence. Politically, they had already turned the Indian kings and princes into puppets to play with. Also, the changes in existing laws were introduced with an aim to reduce Indians into nothingness before the legal bodies