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During the era of British colonialism in India, why were the British content, in general, to leave the Indian social hierarchies intact?
- Over time, exposure to Hindu doctrine on casted won British elites over
- British officials were able to, in essence, graft themselves onto an existing social pyramid at its apex while incurring a minimum of social disruption
- British notions of proper gender roles, such as a wife's duty to commit sati, were the same as Indian ones
- Superior Mughal political and military authority prevented British interference in Indian social relations
- Commonplace social mobility between the caste stratifications prevalent in the subcontinent impressed colonial administrators