Reasons for the Success of the British


 
 
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Reasons for the Success of the British

Reasons for the Success of the British

  • Absence of a strong central leadership: with the decline of the Mughals, there was no strong center leadership in India to check the activities of the British.
  • Lack of unity among the Indian state: Indian states were unable to form a united group against British. The British took advantage of their rivalries to play one ruler against them. So mean while they were strengthening their own base in India.
  • The weakness of the Indian rulers: many rulers chose to have subsidiary alliance with British rather than fight them. They wanted to protect their comfortable lifestyles. They showed little regards for the poor and carried out few reforms for the benefit of the people.
  • Britain’s superior army and navy: the British soldiers had better firearms than the Indian soldiers. They were also often better disciplined and better trained than their Indian soldiers.
  • So, in the early nineteenth century the British began to develop a uniform military culture. Soldiers were increasingly subjected to European style training, drill and discipline that regulated their life far more than before. Often this created problems since caste and community feelings were ignored in buildings a force of professional soldiers.

    Conclusion: Thus the east India Company was transformed from a trading company to a territorial colonial power. the arrival of new stream technology in the early nineteenth century also aided this process. till then it would take anywhere between six and eight months to travel to India by sea. Steamships reduced the journey time to three weeks enabling more Britishers and their families to come to a far -off country like India.

    By 1857 the company came to exercise direct rule over about 63 percent of the territory and 78 per cent of the population of the Indian subcontinent . combined with its indirect influence on the remaining territory and the population of the country , the East India Company had virtually the whole of India under its control.

     
     
     


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