Was there a book there a book or a passage that you read cause we can't give a strait up answer if we don't know the the thing to read...
Divide and Rule Policy
After 1858, the British continued to follow the policy of divide and rule by turning the princes against the people, province against province, caste against caste, group against group, and, above all, Hindus against Muslims.
They abandoned the nomadic life by developing farming techniques through water management, including canal-building, water storag, drainage, irrigation.
With the prosperity which this generated, they moved on to development of almost all the techniques that formed the basis of civilized life before the industrial revolution: architecture, transport, metalworking, carpentry, pottery, glass-making, textile manufacture and leather-working as well as many processes associated with farming and food preparation. In southern Mesopotamia irrigation and flood control were necessary and this gave rise to a number of subsidiary technologies of
Answer to your question when I factored:
4a^2 (8a+3)
