The British used Indians to suppress Indians, and, fools that they were, men of little character, fuelled only by necessity, greed and a servility to the white master, they betrayed their motherland into subjection to a rapacious, roguish regime that denuded her of health, wealth and happiness. A handful of Englishmen --- hardly men, for in trickery and in treachery, in deceit and in duplicity, in betrayal and in a vile barbarism that reeked of their racist arrogance, they hardly bore any semblance of humanity towards the conquered people to be offered in right earnest the epithet of 'man' with all that is glorious that goes by that name --- , by dint of superior organisation, a disciplined command system, unity of will and the inglorious capitulation by local kings and feudal lords for petty self-preservation, controlled masses of Indians who outnumbered them by a ratio of 10,000 : 1 for almost the entire period of their 190 year rule in India.
The British disarmed the Indians after the Revolt of 1857 which, indeed, was the First War of Indian Independence, but the process of building up a slow and steady infrastructural network of political control in India had been initiated by them right from the very beginning of their occupancy in this land of mysticism and mantra where more civilised people lived than they had ever encountered in their northern continent.
The British disarmed the Indians after the Revolt of 1857 which, indeed, was the First War of Indian Independence, but the process of building up a slow and steady infrastructural network of political control in India had been initiated by them right from the very beginning of their occupancy in this land of mysticism and mantra where more civilised people lived than they had ever encountered in their northern continent.
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