During the reign of East India Company in …show more content…
Rudyard Kipling’s The White Man’s Burden describes how Europeans believed that humanizing and taming a society was only possible through the preaching of Christianity. As Great Britain began to colonize India, they sent in missionary officers in order to convert as many people as possible (Crowhurst). Previously, most of the Indian population comprised of Hindus and Muslims from the Mughal era. With the arrival of Christians, the social pyramid under British rule constituted of Christians on top, leaving Hindus and Muslims at the bottom, which angered the natives. This was abnormal for the general population as it was unacceptable for them to be controlled by a foreign group, indirectly pressurized to convert to a pagan religion (for the natives) and subjected to destroy their integral part of Indian