History & Civics
Imagine you are living in the second half of the 19th century in a city. State how you feel about the British and what was responsible for creating such an attitude.
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I was living in a city and was employed in a factory owned by an Englishmen. I felt exploited at the hands of the British as I had to work very long hours without any proper rest or leaves. I was paid poorly, I barely survived on my meager income in the city even though the I worked long and hard to make a living. I felt that the British were getting rich at my expense. I started to understand that my condition will improve only if we are able to free our country from the British rule.
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Read the excerpt given below and answer the question that follows:
"From the mid-18th century, it was a European corporation, the East India Company - run from the City of London by merchants and accountants, with their ledgers and careful accounting - that ran amok and seized and subjugated a fragmented and divided India in what was probably the supreme act of corporate violence in history."
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