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The British did build the roads and railways in India to facilitate easy movement of goods and services in India. They also wanted to open India to the outside world.
Subhash Chandra Bose started the "Quit India Movement," the last great struggle launched for the freedom of India. On October 17, 1940 Vinoba Bhave was first satyagrahi and Jawarharlal Nehru , the second . if the government did not arrest them, they planned to start moving towards Delhi, which was called the Delhi Chalo movement.
The British first arrived in India around 1600. They came to trade. The British East India Company was formed to facilitate that trade. The French were also there. At the end of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the French lost there trading rights in India and the British East India company began to establish greater control, generally through agreements with the Mughal rulers. By the 1840's the British East India Company had control of much of India. In 1857, the Sepoy troops used by the BEIC rebelled against the British. Conditions were bad in India. Following the rebellion, the British government ended the charter of the British East India Company and took over the management of India, making it a colony. Queen Victoria became the Empress of India. It remained a British colony until 1947. This time period is known as the British Raj.
Well its government was not under a socialist party, but the countries actions were considered socialist by their laws and implementation by improving social standards of the Poor and Middle classes.
Britain gave India its independence in 1948, so there is now no British India.