British Rule in India

Cons

British left poor and more prone to devastating famines

Exhorting high taxation in cash

Worse commerical cropping

drained indian revenue to pay for expensive bureuaucracy including in London

Disrupted traditional culture and economy

Large gaps between higher ranking british and lower ranking indians which made indians tired of being second class citizens

Pros

British developed tea, cotton, agriculture, and coal and iron industries

Tata of Iron works were the iron factory in the world

By 1900, India had the longest railworld in the world

Education system allowed growth for enterprise and integration of India into world economy

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Large scale capital investment in infulstructlure, railways, canals and irigation, shipping and mineing, comercial of agriculture,


Was British Rule “Good” for India?
British Rule was good and bad for India. It is complicated, we don't know. The pros to this was it benefit Indian economy with new iron and steel companies, new education, brought India to the economic world. Socially it was very bad putting the people of India under the people of Britain and erasing their culture and traditions.