The British Raj established a new school system primarily aimed at educating the children of the elite, which was part of their strategy to create a class of educated Indians who could assist in administering the colony.

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The British Raj

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The British Raj

A) brought even greater disorder and inefficiency in Indian governmental administration.
B) enacted a homestead decree which gave all Indian peasants approximately fifty-five acres for each family to cultivate as its own, private property.
C) established a new school system to educate the children of the elite.
D) quickly allowed native Indians to join the highest levels of the colonial administration.
E) brought democracy to the subcontinent by 1892.

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