British in India

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The British went to India around the seventh century. In 1601 people of the East India Company took twelve trips to India and in 1609 a man named William Hawkins went and asked for permission to set up a British 'presence' in India.
The British had good relations with countries with trading, commonwealth. They "brought a little lightness to the darkness" in India. They treated most of their subjects nicely and fairly, and the British trained them to run their nations on their own. The British built a network of railways, highways, and had a lot of telegraph and phone facilities put in. They also brought with them the idea of the modern world such as, electricity, and machinery. They brought with them new schools which reformed "many evils that had crept into Indian society." The British rule brought India good things but at a very high cost.

The British made many of their subjects feel that the lighter skinned people were better, than the darker skinned people, but you see that in a lot of colonies. Destruction in myriad was bad during the time when British was in India. They deprived people of simple human rights in their own homeland. A big downside was that they dumped capitalism on countries that never dealt with it before, and then they left them to figure it out. It left them with no laws, and the people had to deal with it on their own. Poverty wasn't a very big issue in the third world because they lived self-sufficient lives. They might have been hungry if the harvests, or weather was bad. The "introduction of capitalism"was introduced in such a sloppy way that it destroyed many of the countries.