Document 2 says that the British had screwed up India's society with violence and oppression, however, the British made amazing changes to India's society by ending highway robbery, widow suicide, and female infanticide (Lalvani). In India, the body would be burned at the funeral and if the person being burnt had a wife, then she was expected to kill herself on the fire because in India women were viewed as useless. Not only is this an atrocious tradition but it labeled women as useless objects. Another thing the British police ended was highway robbery. Highway robbery was a major problem in India, with people just riding along then suddenly getting beat up by some criminals and getting everything they have taken away from them. But not only that but the British also ended female infanticide, which basically meant that you could kill your child if it was a girl and not get in trouble. The British also helped the people of India by increasing everyone’s life expectancy with medicines that fought off smallpox and malaria. Document 2 attempts to rebuttal this by bringing up famines which killed millions. However famines are almost unavoidable, they happen to everyone in sometime in history. Having a longer life expectancy
Document 2 says that the British had screwed up India's society with violence and oppression, however, the British made amazing changes to India's society by ending highway robbery, widow suicide, and female infanticide (Lalvani). In India, the body would be burned at the funeral and if the person being burnt had a wife, then she was expected to kill herself on the fire because in India women were viewed as useless. Not only is this an atrocious tradition but it labeled women as useless objects. Another thing the British police ended was highway robbery. Highway robbery was a major problem in India, with people just riding along then suddenly getting beat up by some criminals and getting everything they have taken away from them. But not only that but the British also ended female infanticide, which basically meant that you could kill your child if it was a girl and not get in trouble. The British also helped the people of India by increasing everyone’s life expectancy with medicines that fought off smallpox and malaria. Document 2 attempts to rebuttal this by bringing up famines which killed millions. However famines are almost unavoidable, they happen to everyone in sometime in history. Having a longer life expectancy