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Question
Answer the following question in one or two words/sentences:
In what way would be westernized Indians help to promote the interests of British manufacturers?
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Solution
- The British system of education produced English-speaking Indian graduates who helped their British masters to run the empire.
- It also created a class of Indians who were Westernized to the extent that they rejected Indian culture and patronized anything and everything that was British including British goods.
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