<span>India proved to be of great social importance to the British in the nineteenth century. India was rich in natural resources. For example, it was a major supplier of Indigo to the British. India also had a massive population of about 300 million people. The Indian masses were a potential customer of finished British goods.
One of the goals <span>was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on </span>farmers<span> in the period following the American Civil War.</span>