British rule in India had devastating consequences for the country's economy and society. When the British arrived in the 1600s, India accounted for 23% of the global economy, but by the time they left in 1947 this had plummeted to under 4% as Britain forcibly deindustrialized India to serve their own economic interests. The railways and other infrastructure built by the British also primarily benefited Britain rather than Indians. Partition in 1947 left over a million dead and millions displaced, failing to account for religious and cultural diversity in the country. Overall, British colonial rule exploited India's resources and people for over two centuries to finance Britain's own industrial revolution, with little long term benefit provided to India.

1. British Rule in India: Stages and
Consequences
British Colonization of India

2. Britain came in the 1600s (with Sir Thomas Roe) when India was
under the rule of Jehangir. India was a stronger nation back then. So,
the British were contended to be traders. However, Nadir Shah's (of
Iran) invasion of India in 1738, changed the picture The Mughal rulers
were badly defeated and that signaled to the world that India was very
weak. The East India Company immediately latched on and made
use of the weakness. The timing was key.
India had plenty of infighting. For instance, Tipu Sultan, who
offered ferocious resistance against the Brits was undermined
by our own rulers (Nizam of Hyderabad and Marathas) who
surrounded the Mysore kingdom when British attacked him. The
Marathas duly paid the price for the friendship with the devil with
the Anglo-Maratha war in which they were badly defeated.
Britain was entering the age of industrial revolution at around the
same time (1750) when Indian empires were weakened. The
economic strength from industrial revolution gave the Brits an upper
hand.

4. Up until the early 18th century, China and India were the
two largest economies
India’s share of the world economy when Britain arrived on its shores was 23% by the time the British left it
was down to below 4 percent Simply because India had been governed for the benefit of Britain in Britain’s
rise for two hundred years was financed by its depredations in India in fact Britain's Industrial Revolution
was Actually premise upon the deindustrialization of India.
The Handloom Weaver's for example famed Across the world whose products were exported around the world Britain
came right in there were actually these Weaver’s making fine Muslin lighters woven air it was said and Britain came right
in smashed their Thumbs broke their looms in post tariffs and duties on their cloth and products and started of course
taking the raw Materials from India and shipping back manufactured cloth flooding the world's Markets with what
became the products of The dark and satanic Mills of Victorian England that meant that the Weaver's in India became
beggars and India went from being a world-famous exporter finished cloth into an importer went from having 27 Percent
of world trade to less than 2 Percent.

6. Actually Railways and Roads were really built to serve British
Interests and not those of the local people.
The Indian Railways were built with massive incentives offered
by Britain to British investors guaranteed out of Indian taxes
paid by Indians with the result that you actually had one mile of
Indian Railway costing twice what it costs to build the same mile
in Canada or Australia because there was so much money being
paid in extravagant returns Britain made all the profits control
the technology supplied all the equipment.
Just to point out the British aid to India it was about 0.4% of
India's GDP, The Government of India actually spends more on
fertilizer subsidies which might be an appropriate metaphor for
that.
'But what about the railways ...?' ​​The
myth of Britain's gifts to India

7. The East India Company killed off India's once-robust
textile industries, pushing more and more people into
agriculture to fulfill the war needs.
INDIA AFTER BRITISH INFLUENCE

8. Large-scale conflicts between Hindus and
Muslims (religiously defined), only began under
colonial rule; many other kinds of social strife
were labelled as religious due to the colonists’
orientalist assumption that religion was the
fundamental division in Indian society.

9. Partition left behind a million dead, 13 million
displaced, billions of rupees of property destroyed,
and the flames of communal hatred blazing hotly
across the ravaged land. No greater indictment of the
failures of British rule in India can be found than the
tragic manner of its ending.
Nor did Britain work to promote democratic
institutions under imperial rule, as it liked to
pretend. Instead of building self-government from
the village level up, the East India Company
destroyed what existed. The British ran
government, tax collection, and administered what
passed for justice. Indians were excluded from all
of these functions.

10. Hidden Facts About British
British looted around 240 to 300 Trillion Pounds from
India.
British looted 'Shah Jahan's' precious wine cup.
British looted Tipu sultan Mechanical Tiger.

11. What is remarkable about the scale of the disaster is its time span. World War
II was at its peak and the Germans were rampaging across Europe, targeting
Jews, Slavs and the Roma for extermination. It took Adolf Hitler and his Nazi
cohorts 12 years to round up and murder 6 million Jews, but their Teutonic
cousins, the British, managed to kill almost 4 million Indians in just over a
year, with Prime Minister Winston Churchill cheering from the sidelines.
The Bengal Famine of 1943-44 must rank as the greatest
disaster in the subcontinent in the 20th century. Nearly 4
million Indians died because of an artificial famine created
by the British government, and yet it gets little more than a
passing mention in Indian history books.

12. Britain destroyed India through looting,
expropriation and outright theft all conducted in a
spirit of deep racism and amoral cynicism.
The British Empire in India was more about
Britain’s rise from the ashes of destruction of our
country.
Also the Indian Institutes of Technology which had
remarked its importance is not something that the
Britishers gifted to India but it was established by
the Indian Government after Independence.
The country’s rail system were built for the benefit
of the British rather than for Indian citizens.

13. Countries one-sixth of all the British forces that fought
on the war were Indian. 54,000 Indians actually lost
their lives in that war, 65,000 were wounded another
4,000 remained missing or in prison. Indian tax payers
had to cough up a Hundred million pounds in that time
money. India supplied 70 million rounds of
ammunition, 600 thousand rifles and machineguns,
42 million garments were stitched and sent out of
India and 1.3 million Indian personnel served in this
war but not just that India had to supply a hundred
and seventy three thousand animals, three hundred
and seventy million tons of supplies and in the end
the total value of everything that was taken out of
India and India by the suffering from recession at that
time and poverty and hunger was in today's money
eight billion pound.
Why the Indian soldiers of WW1 were forgotten

14. Conclusion:
This is precisely why the unity
within the movement often
broke down. The high points of
Congress activity and nationalist
unity were followed by phases of
disunity and inner conflict
between groups.
In other words, what was
emerging was a nation with
many voices wanting freedom
from colonial rule.
Through such movements the
nationalists tried to forge a
national unity. But diverse groups
and classes participated in these
movements with varied
aspirations and expectations. As
their grievances were wide-
ranging, freedom from colonial
rule also meant different things to
different people. The Congress
continuously attempted to resolve
differences, and ensure that the
demands of one group did not
alienate another.
A growing anger against the
colonial government was thus
bringing together various groups
and classes of Indians into a
common struggle for freedom in
the first half of the twentieth
century. The Congress
under the leadership of Mahatma
Gandhi tried to channel people's
grievances into organized
movements for independence.