Nineteenth-century imperialists claimed that they were fulfilling a "civilizing mission" in their overseas conquests. To what extent was this claim true? Specifically, what significant reforms and changes did the British bring to India? What changes did the British not make?

Such form of imperialism and colonialism is known as 'white's man burden' it was coined by writer Rudyard Kipling, the changes mad eby British involves infrastructure, western style education, and idea of person in western way of understanting, they did not change religion and social structure