1. Capitalism in the west emerged out of a complex process of European exploration of the rest of the world - its plunder of wealth and resources - an unprecedented growth of science and technology - its harnessing to industries and agriculture. 2. To facilitate the smooth functioning of its rule - colonialism introduced a wide array of changes in every sphere - be it legal or cultural or architectural. 3. Colonialism was a story apart in the very scale and intensity of the changes that it brought about. 4. Some of these changes were deliberate while sometook place in an unintended fashion. 5. For example we saw how western education was introduced to create Indians who would manage British colonialism.