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name some things the brits did to the indians (dealing with discrimination) during the colonization of india?
i'm working on a culminating project for english so much help is needed thanks a millions for some answers to get me started.....
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There are individual laws as mentioned above but the whole ideal of general colonization/ the British' policy for India was to rape the land and the people, figuratively. They stole the raw material, brought it back to England to be produced into finished goods, then they shipped it to India and made Indians pay for it. so not only were the Indians out all their money because their crops were stolen, but with what little money they had left to cloth themselves they paid the British for their own goods. This is why Gandhi started the "home-grown" movement of weaving his own cloths. Not only did the English do this economically but they also imposed much of their culture on to Indian society and only recently are they switching back( very materially) to the precolonization Indian. The whole colonization was based in discrimination, the British thought they had the right to do all the things I just mentioned, because they thought they were better than the Indians, therefore discriminating against them.
Source(s): education - 1 decade ago
1) Removed the Mughal emporers
2) Prohibited the practice of 'Sutee' in 1829
3) Destroyed the Thuggee murder society in the 1830's
4) Introduced commercial tea production to India, starting in the 1850's. Production rose from 60 acres in 1857 to an industry which now employs 2 million people in India.
5) Built the Indian Railways (now the world's largest employer)
6) Created the Indian Civil Service
7) Set up the legal system
6) Left India as the world's largest democracy.
Source(s): http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020405.html http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Secret-Societies/T... - 1 decade ago
They forced Indians into the world economy, and that made it very difficult for Indians to respond to domestic crises. The best example I know of comes from the famines of the middle-late 19th century. Bad weather caused widespread crop failures, and millions of Indians were starving. But the British made them export grain that was badly needed at home. Hundreds of thousands of people died. Check out Mike Davis's book, Late Victorian Holocausts. It's a great (but extremely depressing) read.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
google the Amritsar massacare. My parents are from India so I know. The British made unfair taxes. And treated the Indians as lower class. Google Ghandi and try to see the reasons of his protests.
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- 1 decade ago
imposed unfair tax laws.
you should also look up the armristar massacre.
indians could no longer meetings in public.
Indians were also forefully taken to South Africa as slaves and had to work in slat mines.
the list goes on just wikipedia it or something