4 ms·
Sorry for being a little harsh there. At the height of British occupation , there were not more than 1700(!) British people at the same time on the Indian subc
by FraaJad 16y ago
Sorry for being a little harsh there.
At the height of British occupation , there were not more than 1700(!) British people at the same time on the Indian subcontinent. Which itself is a fantastic testament to the British Raj's bureaucratic machinery. The English education was an instrument in creating that machinery.
- arethuza 16y agoThat's a surprisingly low number - the Wikipedia page on the Raj gives a count of 125,945 Britains in India in 1861 of which 84,083 were in the Army. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj
- FraaJad 16y agothanks for the citation. I had a feeling that 1700 was too low a number.