How Did British Imperialism Affect The Politics Of India

The British East India company held India in its grasp until the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 happened. Because of the rebellion England decided to take more control over the colony by having the actual government take root and complete control in 1857. With Britain having taken over India they turned it into a very efficient colony and maximizing its potential, while also putting controlling and racist laws to Indians and restricting them in most ways, by forcing them to farm non food crops, destroying whole industries and unneeded deaths from famines, to a massacre of peaceful protesters. British imperialism had a negative impact on the politics of India because the justice system was biased toward Indians and that the government had more white
It established the framework for India's Justice system…” (Lalvani) While the fourth document would disagree and argue that, “Crimes committed by whites against indians attracted minimal punishment; An englishman who shot dead his indian servant got six months’ jail time… While an indian convicted of attempted rape against an English Woman was sentenced to 20 years.” (Doc, 4) How is having a legal system that obviously favors one race for the other a good framework that will last and continue to work in the future. Lalvani argues, that Indians had equal share in the government by saying, “Wealthy young Indians were packed off to london and return home well trained… and trained in a legal system..” (Lalvani) While document 2 would disagree and disprove him by saying, “Of 960 civil offices
Lalvani argues that, health and life both improved from things like vaccines and cures for diseases like smallpox. (Lalvani #21) But document number ten’s statistics say that , before the British imperialism their was 18 famines but during the british rule their was 40 famines with over 58 million deaths. (Doc #10) If the British increased the quality of life, then why did they allow 40 famines to happen, which is over doubling the amount before the british took over India and cause over 58 million deaths. Lalvani argues that, the british made some of the most finest colleges in India (Lalvani # 18) But Document number nine, statistics show that most of the population of Indians, didn’t know how to read or right, only near the end of Britain's rule of India that the percentages rising over 15 percent (Doc #9). The British might have made the best and or finest colleges in India, but the fact that almost none of the population knew how to read or write, shows that only the rich and privileged people could go to the colleges and learn. Because of the unfair systems put in place by the British in India, it gave a negative impact to the people of India because of the giant amount of deaths, famines and the biased educational