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BRITISH RULE IN ENGLAND

Trade was Britain 's doorway to India (Bogard et .al . 4th par . 3rd sentence ) The colonization of Asia is often referred to as the Second British Empire the British East India Company India was successful in annexing the Indian subcontinent (India , Bangladesh , Pakistan , Myanmar an extremely lucrative acquisition as it became a large source of revenue (British East India Company 1st par . 1st sentence

India is a country with a rich culture and a civilization far older than that of

the British (Bessant 2nd par . 2nd sentence . Its identity has been forged long before the coming of Western Civilization . However during the period of the annexation of the subcontinent , India was in a period of regional strife . There were wars being fought among the different governors in the territory . The local leaders were fighting each other as well as the foreign invaders

In Did Great Britain Unify India , the authors think that when Great Britain first came to India , it was suffering a period of division (2nd par . The governors of India tended towards disintegration , leading to outrageous defense expenditures which continued with the conflicts against the British (Birodkar . The British made external changes that led India to desire and achieve national unity (Bogard , et .al . 4th par

An example of the unifying external changes introduced was the concept of a universal language . The British required knowledge of the English language to qualify for employment in the government . It was also taught in the universities . But the Indians did not completely accept the foreign language of the colonizers . The regional languages still exist today , and only a small portion of population speaks English . However even if the Indians still speak in different languages and there is still no universal language in India , Hindi has become the official language . Hindi is taught in the elementary and high school level English is taught in the college levels , it is the language of the educated in India (Bogard , et .al

The British also introduced western developments . The Empire built railroads , highways and ports across the Indian subcontinent to facilitate trade , built canals for irrigation and created public health measures to prevent diseases . On the flip side , the activities of the British were geared towards acquisition of economic wealth for Britain (Bogard , et .al . According to Bidokar , The policy of 'Great ' Britain was of a systematic annihilation of Indian handicraft industries by exposing them to the ruinous competition from the cheap machine products coming from UK (18th par . 1st sentence ) A large bulk of the raw materials produced by India is acquired , at very cheap prices , by the Britain then , later on , finished products are dumped back to India resulting to very large profits for Britain (Bidokar18th par . 2nd sentence . This exacerbated the poverty of India (Bidokar18th par . 2nd sentence . Bidokar also believed that

Thus after nearly two centuries of living through the twilight of two ages of the dying feudalism and the deformed nascent newborn...