The Influence Of British Imperialism In India

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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."-Mahatma Gandhi Britain had many territory of colonies, but India was the largest and most important colony. The British Indian colony lasted from 1750 to 1914. It took Indian citizens several movements to kick the British out of India. People of India did not like Brittan colonizing their country. They felt that the British have changed their culture and forced them to work. Especially when they were forced to grow cotton instead of food crops. They also felt they were taking away their culture, and making them feel that they were used for their raw materials such as cotton and spices.
One of the many reasons the Indians wanted to kick the British out of India was culture, Indians felt the British were taking away their culture and forcing British culture into India. Indian citizens were strongly attached to their beliefs and religions. But Britain didn’t acknowledge that. Until today we see the British culture in some parts of India that’s all because of imperialism, many of the Indian movements and revolts were caused because of cultural differences between the two countries.
Britain also affected the Indian language, the official language of India is Hindi. But since the imperialism, when
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Britain made locals work day and night to harvest their own fields. In some parts of India were fruits and vegetables grow in special fields it caught the eyes of British officials, and they forced Indians to grow cotton in these fields instead of food. After these events of changing the fields that are specified for food, famine rose rapidly during that time. And that caused Indian farmers to revolt against the British, but it was quickly stopped by British

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