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Indeed the Indian's thought so. Many were very angry about the destruction of the caste system. Also, the British had began banning the extremely common ritua
by mrjangles 5y ago
Indeed the Indian's thought so. Many were very angry about the destruction of the caste system. Also, the British had began banning the extremely common rituals of burning widows alive, burying alive of lepers, and honor killing of family members, which made many angry.
However, they mostly were happy about the British pumping huge sums of money into modernizing the country and offering a western education to Indian children for the first time.
- jimmyed 5y ago> the British had began banning the extremely common rituals of burning widows alive, burying alive of lepers, and honor killing of family members +1, you are right about this. Banning these was an undeniably good thing for the Indian society. > British pumping huge sums of money into modernizing the country and offering a western education to Indian children for the first time this is a load of BS though. You make it sound like they were there out of their infinite benevolence to do good for the Indians, when in fact they looted the country indiscriminately...
- savanaly 5y agoIt was mutually beneficial to provide a better standard of education for millions of Indians. That doesn't mean the British didn't do other horrible things of course, but the idea they did some good is hardly "a load of BS".
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- jsnodlin 5y agoThe British didn’t destroy the caste system. They rigidly enforced it since it fit cleanly into their “divide and conquer” strategy.
- mrjangles 5y agoThis is the usual rewriting of history. It is an extremely modern trend to try to blame the caste system on the British. The British weakened but tolerated the caste system because there would have been immediate revolution had they even thought about removing it. The British were also firmly nationalists who believed that foreign cultures had the right to administer themselves in the way they saw fit.
- jsnodlin 5y agoThey literally had divisions in the army that were caste based, something not seen in the prior centuries. What are you talking about? Do you have any sources?
- mrjangles 5y agoI mean, you would have to read a history book written before 1980 when it became popular to start rewriting history. But a quick search comes up with this for example https://thewire.in/caste/caste-history-postcolonial-studies https://thewire.in/caste/caste-history-postcolonial-studies
- jsnodlin 5y agoObviously caste has been a construct that has been around for a very long time but encoding it into government, the army, law and the judiciary was a British tool.