East India Dbq Essay

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In 1707, The Mughal Empire was collapsing while the east india company (Britain) was using this as an advantage to take power over india,by 1757 after the battle of plassey they have taking rule over india leading them to use india for its resource/workforce.The laws created by the British had a structured government,but was strucerd to control the indians.Raw resources from india was moved to east india company control which ,however lead to the need of a workforce.British control as far as it goes for social was not positive because of the millions of deaths from the cause of famine which was the cause of cash crops.British control was not positive it was negative impact on india and its people. The laws created from British rule had a structured government that was not equal to all people such as the Indians with unjustified laws that affected villages and all over India.The British in an attempt to control 500 million people with only 100,000 englishmen the government passed repressive laws like the rowlatt act that prohibited Indians from attending public meetings (gandhi).But the British

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