The Influence Of India In The 19th Century India

This article focuses on the 19th century India in the social, historical, religious, political and cultural contexts.The pre-renaissance period can be marked as the background to welcome the Renaissance in India with a special reference to the advent of the British in India as an external influence on the internal, as the influence of the West on the East.India as an identity rests not only on the history of discrete people but also on cultures given its socio-political, socio-religious and socio-cultural scenarios. The emergence of India today as a very strong and solid nation with a deep root in democracy owes to the long experience of imperial government, its cultures and civilization. Therefore, the omission of the mention of the British …show more content…
While referring to the influence of the Renaissance in India, this research paper concentrates as well on the interplay between regions and empires of rule, custom and also on the belief of India. India as an identity rests not only on the history of discrete people but also on cultures given its socio-political, socio-religious and socio-cultural scenarios. The emergence of India today as a very strong and solid nation with adeep root in democracy owes to the long experience of imperial government, its cultures and civilization.Therefore, the omission of the mention of the British in the history of India will render it incomplete.The introduction of the British army, institutions, hospitals, schools, colleges, economic structures, architecture, technologies, administration, education, Christianity and above all the use of English language—the full panoply of the British presence in India altering the physical, economic, social and even the domestic landscape of rural and urban people across the subcontinent rendered India very lame.The Indians also witnessed the ideologies and the practices of a British-mediated colonial …show more content…
The expansion of conservative British Rājinstrumentedthe political, economic and social transition in India. With the passage of time, the British not only acquired the political power but also secured their place in the administrative affairs in India. The 18th Centurythat preceded the juggernaut of colonial march was not devoid of reform movements and intellectual advances. However, Hinduism was beset with the evils like idolatry, polytheism and superstition that were inherited even by the following 19th century. People got restless by the mid of the 19th century and revolted against the British for the first time due to the diverse reasons which generated the fumes of discontent among them in various parts in India. These agitations burning into flames in the mutiny of 1857 invited an end to the Company in 1858 making the Indians aware of their unity against the British. Though this revolt was crushed, it made an important impact on the minds of the