The Bengal Renaissance - pg. 246

The question that British rulers were pursuing the class interest of mercantile capitalists of Britain was a fact but also not very significant for such estimation. The role that deserves most of all to be kept in mind is that they were destroying successfully the socio-economic structure of the village economy and drawing various sections of the Indian people into the vortex of cash nexus and that the indigenous productive system was being increasingly governed by the market.