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"'Westernization' was eventually to produce the leadership and the ideologies and programmes of the Indian liberation struggle, whose cultural and political leaders were to emerge from the ranks of those who collaborated with the British, benefited from their rule as a comprador bourgeoisie or in other ways, or set out to 'modernize' themselves by imitating the west. . . . Yet it has to be pointed out that in this period the 'westernized' elite, whatever its discontents saw the British both as providing a model and as opening new possibilities. . . . In so far as there was resistance to the British as British, it came from the traditionalists, and even this was--with one major exception [Indian Mutiny]--muted . . . People 'were dazzled at first by the discipline of the British. Railways, Telegraph, Roads, Schools . . . Riots ceased and people could enjoy peace and quiet . . . '" [Hobsbawm: Capital, p. 123] "Between 1848 and 1856 Britain annexed the Punjab, large parts of central India, parts of the west coast and Oudh, thus adding about a third to the territory directly administered by the British." [Hobsbawm: Capital, footnote, p. 124]