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In 1853 Karl Marx wrote, "'England has to fulfil a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerative.' This double mission consisted in ‘the annihilation of the old Asiatic society' and ‘the laying of the material foundations of a Western society in Asia,'" (Kruger 40). Though some of the world thought that Britain was just spreading western ideals, Marx realized the exploitation that would occur under the British colonization of India. Under colonialism, Britain used economic, political and cultural exploitation to serve the interests of the crown. These imperialistic functions, however, would lead to the rise of nationalist ideology and the road to independence in India.

A huge factor in the rise of anti-colonial India was the economic exploitation of Indian in the interest of the British Empire. Although colonialism sometimes brings economic gain to subordinate countries, it is usually short-lived and it the case of India it primarily benefited Britain.......

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