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in India was complicated by numerous factors. The strangeness of the environment, the differences in the national character of the two groups and the differences in the social and political institutions, were the few that played an important part. The English found the eastern environment very unusual. Their habits of daily life, their deit, dress, amusements, and all other social interests, recreations and amenities of life were completely foreign and had nothing to do with those of the Indians. Britain, at the time, was a growing nation in possession of the techniques, organization, and energy which would enable her to become a world power. She was in the midst of a political, social and economical transformation. Britain’s transformation was of great importance to the development of new attitudes towards India.
The designs of the English “became more imperial and their attitude more haughty and aloof” (George,44). The social gulf that existed between the “diplomatic pundits” ...

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