The War Between the British and the Industrialists

In 1857, we were moving from mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism. We were pushed back into the feudal era in a very distorted way. But this was not futile because it was part of this giant, impialed machinery and where basically we were being controlled by London's financial and industrial needs. In Uttar Pradesh, in areas like Maspur-sash, Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan, all these areas, whether tenured structure was still a kind of particular, even in Rajasthan,. The holdover land was not of the king or of the Rajput lord, the land was held by the peasants.