East India Bill by Edmund Burke

Q: Give the brief sketch of the sociopolitical style of the subcontinent during the time of Edmund Burke.

East India Bill is proposed in the British parliament to the British queen about the misjudgments of the East India Company and the cruelty of them towards the people of Indian-subcontinent in 1783.

The British rule in the subcontinent created a deep negative impact on the thought of Edmund Burke. Being a British Parliamentarian, he raised his political voice in the favor of Indian people. There was no good life for the Indians. The brutality and cruelty of the East India Company made the life of Indians a complete hell. Warren Hasting introduced a lot new ways of exploiting the Indian people. East India Company was getting richer by exploiting the people. Our farmers could not grow their own food, but they were bound to harvest blue. The Indian people forgot the minimum liberty of life. After the death of the last Mughal emperor the Indians lost the complete political freedom of their own life. During the range of East India Company the law and order were totally collapsed. All the Indian wealth were   taken to England. We had to buy our own food by paying an abnormal price. The farmers were also abused a lot by them. They had to give a high text for their land. The education condition of the India was not so high. The British took no step to educate the Indian people.

All these issues; political, social, economical and law and order were raised in the East India Bill. He could very well understand that the brutal India Company destroyed the glamour and fame of the queen Victoria. The people of the subcontinent used to hate the British from the core of their heat. Edmund Burke requested the queen to change Warren Hasting and to employee a new vice-roy by her serve. So, the new vice-roy would rule over India according to the rule of the British royal family.

This bill is spoke for the liberty, fraternity and equality. We believe that somehow this bill influenced hundred years later on the mind of the patriotic Indians like Mahatma Gandhi, Shuvas Boshu etc. It created the spirit of liberation to the Indian people.