The impact of English Colonial rule on Indians can be better assessed if that be taken from the point of impact it had on the rural population and the socio-economic fabric of the nation. Before the British held sway over the Indian economic environment the villages were more or less free from the political fights going up in the capitals. But with the rule of Britain having stamped on the India soil the British started having their interest in the rural economy and also started changing the basic fabric of it which had remained unchanged for almost centuries. The villages were mostly self-sufficing n traditional sense and more or less independent in their day to day handling of life. But the impact of the new rulers – the British- were quite far reaching. The major impact and far reaching too, of it was in the economic area. .