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British Influence On India

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Can you imagine one day living your normal everyday life and then the next day getting colonized and being forced to do things you didn 't want. In 1707 the Mughal empire was collapsing and the British saw India as the “jewel in the crown.” So they attacked and and ended up ruling everything of indias from political, social, and economic resources. They saw all of India’s raw materials and there 300 million population as a great thing to invest and to colonize. I’m about to show you why when the British took over it led to hatred between religions, took away people 's god given rights, took advantage of people and their resources, built things that would only benefit themselves, but most of all started world hunger in india. Political Paragraph …show more content…

(Gandhi) To show that brittain just wanted to take advantage of India they made it so farmers could only grow cash crops. The reason why that is so bad is because the farms were all screwed up and were not able to grow food after the cash crops, so they had no food to support them and their family so that created the hunger in india.Yes lalvani is correct they did build a lot of things that benefit a country into evolving but they made those necessities to better help them rob India of its natural resources, land, and precious metals.(Gandhi) Lalvani says that they built all of these nice things and that helped India become the country they are today, the only problem with that is they took land resources like the cash crops the farmers grew and precious metals.(Document) The roads and trains they made, made it very easy for them to leave and to come back and to keep doing it over and over again. (Gandhi)Lalvani says once British came to rule they gained 22 more bases for selling and trading.(Document) Yeah they did get more bases, but they got them because they took out the competition with tax so nobody could buy their products no more and they went out of business, an even worse they used physical violence like cutting off weavers’ fingers so they permanently couldn 't …show more content…

The British after conquering build a very prized vast empire, that they called “the jewel of the crown.’’ The British when in control brought mutual tensions between religions, and unfair government that benefitted one side. They used their power to make people do and grow whatever they want causing the mass growth of cash crops. They also built tons of un necessary architecture that only the benefitted the British. When the British took over it led to hatred between religions, took away people 's god given rights, took advantage of people and their resources, built things that would only benefit themselves, but most of all started world hunger in india. These are all of my reasons why i think india was better off getting left alone rather than getting

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