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“The British Raj had a deeply racist aspect and it ultimately existed to protect colonial exploitation.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

The British Raj was never merely an administrative arrangement; it rested on an ideology of racial hierarchy that both justified conquest and safeguarded the economic extraction on which colonialism depended.

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  • The Psychological Foundations of Racial Rule
  • Institutional Expressions: Law, Administration, and Grievance
  • Violence, Impunity, and the "Shooting Accidents"
  • The Economic Payoff: Racism as Guardian of Monopoly
  • Racism's Limits and Its Ultimate Cost to the Raj

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