The Raj - Malin

The Mughal ruled Delhi until in the middle of 19^th Century, 1858. British Company took the royal splendor and patronage from the Mughal dynasty. From pre-the Raj to post-the Raj, people way of life and architectural style shifted from ‘the Persian and Islamic influenced’ to ‘the western influenced’. Education and domesticity of Indian was change gradually during hundred years of the British colonial.

During the period of colonial rules Indian learned English as the language for administration, the language of the new ruler. Also, Western style Education College spread very quickly in India during 1800-1850. Indian liked to send their children to this kind of educational system, because graduates would be paid well and get good job. That means the education of this country would develop as unique as it could follow the central curriculum in British way.

British had grabbed lands and propertied from Indians. The British did restructuring the domestic properties and spread it out to the elites, especially in Delhi. As like the farm land around Delhi, the British Company took it and redistributed by their system. Since that, Delhi city became a blending of British and Indian style.

However, the British intrusively invasion in India brought up ‘civilization’ which was a western way to the city. They brought in a new generation of transportation and a new way of economic system. Indian people as their subservience, has gradually changed their identity and their way of life through time during the siege of British Empire. Howsoever, it cannot be proved that the way of city changing during the Raj period got to the matter of good or not. Anyhow, the hundred years of the Raj had not long enough to cleanly vanish Indian essence. That is how Indian culture especially in Delhi presented as an ensuing result of the two cultures mixing and it made Delhi as Delhi today.