How could a country with more ethnicities, languages and religions than all of Europe survive as a united, self-ruled republic?
The prevailing opinion among the British elite was that India as a whole would never be fit for self-rule. The British ruled over nearly 300 million Indians who spoke hundreds of languages and practiced many different religions. By 1857, India was formally placed under the rule of the British government, under a system known as the British Raj. From the seventeenth century onwards, the British had been slowly increasing their presence in the region. Any history of modern India must begin with British rule.
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