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Positive effects (as imperial defenders claimed)
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- Built the largest railway network in Asia, useful for both extraction and integration
- Built irrigation works that increased agricultural productivity in some regions
- Established a unified legal code and a professional civil service
- Spread English-language higher education, creating a class of English-speaking Indian professionals
- Banned sati (widow burning) and other practices British administrators considered inhumane
- Suppressed internal warfare between Indian states
- Introduced modern public health measures, though unevenly
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