Effects Of British Colonialism On India

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During the 1750-1860 India had the most resources and was the richest country in the world. It looked like they could have been the most powerful country in the world, but only one other country took advantage of the fact that they were weak in the military. Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the British still had control of India? The effect that British colonialism had on India was that most of the people there were forced to work for the British. They were not able to handle their own government which caused them to revolt against their own people and the British people took away all of their riches. They were also forced to stay away from the temples and their foods. British Colonialism affected India in there economics, …show more content…

One big thing that was changed was that most of the jobs people had, such as making clothes had been given to machines. This had a really grave impact because not many people were in the high class and those jobs were the reasons they had food and shelter to help their family survive. The people who lost their jobs to a machine were most likely to move to farming, which was all day long. If you did not work even one day you would have been punished and not able to eat food that day. After 2 months of the British rule the Britain government forced a lot of people to switch to their style of clothes. This was a very big part because to the Indian people it was very insulting to switch over, and the people who did not listen to this were sent to jail or were made slaves. When this was happening there were lots of fights between the Indian people about which clothes to wear, and this was the result the British people were looking for. One really big part of the economy was that the people who were the owners of a company or even a shareholder were forced to sell they’re business’s to the British for a very cheap price. This was a very smart move by Britain because then these people were forced to sign with the Bank of England and had to take a loan to survive. Colonialism affected India in the economic stand point by taking away companies, their jobs, and their …show more content…

Even though they were under British control they still were praying to their gods and going to temples. On certain religious days the Indian people have to go to a river because of the religious purposes. The queen decided to not allow them to go to the river which caused a huge revolt were many British and Indian people were killed. Another huge part to the culture was that they were forced to move away to their foods. The Indian population food habits were lentils and vegetables. This was a very smart move by the British people where they made Indians eat non-vegetarian food. This was very insulting to the Indian people because they worship cows and that was one of the foods that they were forced to eat. One part to their culture which was also part of their economy was their clothes. Clothes were a big part of the Indian society because it was like paying respect to their gods by dressing appropriately. British said forget your gods and convert to Christianity or face the consequences. Spreading Christianity was about 30 percent of the reason they came to India in the first place. Colonialism affected India in the culture standpoint because they lost their gods, clothes, and foods.

One of the not so big changes that came to India at that time was the art. Once most of the Indian population started to lose their job they decided to switch over to the arts and that’s how they were making money. After a while the British

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