How the British Raj was Established in India

In 1858, British Crown rule came into being in India, bringing a century of possession by the East India Company to an end. The life and death struggle that led to this legalisation of British control had been lasting for about two years, cost £36 million, and is variously defined as the 'Great Rebellion', the 'Indian Mutiny' or the 'First War of Indian Independence'.

Undeniably, the results of this bloody sublimation marked the nature of political, social and economic rule that the British established in its rise.

It is important to point that the kingdom never comprised the whole land mass of the sub-continent.

There were self governed princely states within Indian territory , some of whose rulers had combated the British during the 'Great Rebellion', but with whom the Raj now entered into treaties of reciprocal cooperation.

The 'Great Rebellion' helped give rise to a racial chasm between ordinary Indians and Britons.

Verily the people belonging to conservative elite class in princely India and big landlords were to prove to have increasingly useful alliance, who would lend critical monetary and military backing during the two World Wars.

Hyderabad for instance comprised nearly the size of England and Wales combined, and its ruler, the Nizam, was the wealthiest person in the world.

They would also served as political bulwarks in the nationalist storms that achieved momentum from the late 19th century and broke with intense ferocity over the first half of the 20th century.

But the 'Great Revolt did more to grow a ethnic chasm between ordinary Indians and outsider Britons which was a social segregation which would endure until the conclusion of the Raj(The then kingdom of British India)'.

While the British censured the distregrities of the Hindu caste system, they themselves lived a life ruled by precedence and class, deeply separated within itself. Rudyard Kipling, arenowned novelist reflected this position in his novels. His books also explicated the discrepency between the 'white' community and the 'Anglo-Indians', whose mingled race made them to be deemed ethnically unholy'.