British Imperialism in India :: Colonialism Imperialism

British Imperialism in IndiaAll the leadership had fatigued their early years in England. They were captivated by British thought, British ideas, that is why our leaders were always telling the British How can you do these things? Theyre against your suffer basic values.. We had no hatred, in fact it was the other way assail - it was their values that made us revolt. -Aruna Asaf Ali, a leader of the Indian case Congress. (Masani, quoted in Wood, 32, 1989) There is no doubt that British imperialism had a enlarged impact on India. India, having previously been an group of independent and semi-independent princedoms and territories, underwent great tack under British administration. Originally intended to consolidate their hold on India by establishing a population that spoke the same language as their rulers, the British decision in the 1830s to educate Indians in a western fashion, with English as the language of instruction, was the beginning of a chain of events, including a rise in Indian nationalism, that light-emitting diode to Indian resentment of British imperialism and ultimately to the loss of British control over India. One of the more or less important factors in the British loss of control over India was the physical composition of English as a unifying language. Prior to British colonisation, India was fragmentize and multi-lingual, with 15 major languages and around 720 dialects. English served as a mutual ground for Indians, and allowed separate cultural and ethnic groups to identify with each other, something which had rarely if ever occurred before on a grand scale. Although it was mainly improve Indians of a privileged caste who spoke English, these were the most influential wad in terms of acting as facilitators for nationalist ideas to be communicated passim the populace. The publication of magazines and journals in English was also a great influence on the rise of Indian nationalism. Although most Indians received nationalist ideas orally, these journals allowed Indians who were literate in English to come into contact with the ideas of social and political reformers. policy-making and social reform in India was achieved as a result of the European political principles brought to India by the British. Indians were Anglicised, and the British ideal for an Indian was to be Indians in blood and colour, but English in tastes, opinions and intellect, as delegate by one British legislator (Rich, 214, 1979). This Western education inevitably led to well-read Indians encountering European principles such as human rights, freedoms of speech, travel and association, and liberalism.