HIST-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Guangxu Emperor, Civil Service Retirement System, Qing Dynasty
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Over-population led to terrible famines: the british revised the indian legal system, british rule brought peace and order to the countryside, upper-class indians sent their sons to british schools. Indian attitudes: some educated indians were impressed by british power and technology and urged india to follow a western model of progress, other indians felt the answer to change lay with their own hindu or. British attitudes: most british knew little about indian achievements and dismissed indian culture with contempt, a few british admired indian theology and philosophy and respected. The british believed that western-educated indians would form an elite class which would bolster british rule. As it turned out, exposure to european ideas had the opposite effect. By the late 1800s, western-educated indians were spearheading a nationalist movement. In 1885, nationalist leaders organized the indian national congress. Its members looked forward to eventual self-rule, but supported western-style modernization.
