How Did The British Justified In Conquering India Increase Their Power?

The British, and empire small in size, but massive in power. And when you’re powerful, you want more power. India was one of their targets. Conquering India not only increased their power, but also their economic status, and other things of the sort. The Indians lacked a government, And were easily taken over by the Europeans. How did it turn out? Not well (for the Indians). Lalvani argues that the British helped the Indians set up a stable government. While this is true, the government was 6% india. The police force was a joke, they killed 400 innocent people peacefully gathering in a religious building (Gandhi). Lalvani also says that a respect was formed between the Indians and British, making the independence peaceful. While firstly, the British shouldn’t need to leave India, since they never should have been there, but they had built up so much tension between the Hindus and Muslims, a civil war broke out, that left 1,000,000 people dead (Gandhi). That's more than double the Americans casualties during world war two! So sure, the transition between the the british and indians was peaceful, but …show more content…
Life expectancy went up, crime dropped, education was set up, even though literacy was at 16% when India was granted it independence. The British felt like they were doing something important, and useful, but a 16% literacy rate isn't very impressive, especially when you’ve just killed 59 million people, appropriated their resources, and taxed them of what they had left. While a decrease in crime, and an increase in life average is a generally good thing, It’s just not enough to counteract the bad things that the British did to the Indians. An empire can’t pride themselves over teaching a country how to read a foreign language while expunging their own, if at the same time they are causing a massive famine, and taking everything from everyone indigenous to that