Speech on East India Bill - Part B

  • What was the nature of English rule in India? [NU. 2014]

Burke has elaborated the nature of the English rule in India under the Company which reveals the brutality of the English rule in India. He says that under the English government all the order existing in India is reversed. He analyses that India was destroyed by the Tartar's enmity, but it was the friendship of the English that robbed India. The English were isolated and detached from the natives. Young men govern there without sympathy with the natives. The only aim of the unsocial English men in India was to make a sudden fortune from a remote/distant settlement. 

It is said that every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost forever to India. England has built no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools. Every other conqueror has left some monument behind him. But the British did not build anything. Burke imagines that if today the English are driven out of India, nothing would remain.