Colonial state example sentences

The colonial state in India, keen to expand the market for British goods, was unwilling to support Indian industrialists.How? First, the colonial state wanted to transform all grazing lands into cultivated farms.In the late nineteenth century, many Indian institutions and movements were organised around the idea of religious community because the colonial state encouraged these divisions and was quick to recognise communal institutions.Applications that used the communal categories favoured by the colonial state were, as this letter shows, more likely to be approved.The colonial state and its divisive conception of India was the rock on which the Pentangular was built.