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They bought some benefits e.g. Railways, irrigation techniques, education etc. But overall, it wasn't so great.
For example India’s share of world trade fell from 17% percent in 1800 (almost equal to America’s share of world trade in 2000) to less than 2% , whilst at the same time British per capita gross domestic product increased in real terms by 347 per cent, Indian saw an increase of 14 per cent.
What about the famines in British India? Yes we have heard of bad weather and insurance against crops, but even Western authors say such reasons don't account for the sheer scale of the famine. According to British records, around 25 million Indians died in 100 years. Why have such famines not occurred since?
I'd like to go into India's crop planting patterns and how essential commodities were replaced by "high value" export crops, which farmers saw little end benefit, bar their rich landlords and of course the Empire.
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Railwyas
yes .. they brough it and it hepled india in long run
but INTENT was not for benefit of coomon people but to privde Raw material faster and cost effective to englasnd to be competiative englasish good than other euprean produs
in that india got hit hard of natual raw material wnet for peanuts
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Famines
some happned due to nature
some were manmade due negligance part of irrgaion water managet
and brittish again did g8 work with big dams but have curse of not paying attetion to famine as required
again poin is INTENT
even today dams made by british give water to mumbai
as it was ther old imp economic bse
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Corps
hits hardest most
read indigo movement
same landlord were backbone for britihs for some time before taking over them in 1850 -1880 era
---His father side is also mongol decdent. But that's not the point.
In most places, mongol conqueror converted to local religion, such as Buddhism Islam etc. In India they didn't converted to Hinduism, so India was ruled by heretic.
you can say
india rules by rulers decend of mongol
but not
Mongaol ruled india
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mughal find them closer to iran than mongaol