The British, when they were in charge of India, brought about a lot of changes in the way laws functioned. They created a system that helped organize the rules and how courts operated, which still helps India today. This system made sure that everyone had to follow the same laws and included some rights that protect people, like the right to not be unfairly arrested. However, the British also put many rules that limited people’s freedoms.

The British legislation in India was primarily to hold people captive and not allow them to raise their voices against the government. For instance, the Rowlatt Act, where the government could imprison people without a fair trial, which was not just. Another act, Sedition Act, made it illegal to utter anything controversial about the British rulers. It did not allow people to make speeches on newspapers, convening one another, among other issues, thus witnessing too many unfair treatments of man, these laws.

These set many Indians against the established rules and helped them in wanting to fight for freedom from control by the British. Man leaders asked for freedom coupled with a return to being treated as equals, according to the rights of others like them. The British did enact some good helpful laws in rights but were trying to govern and restrict the people at their own behest. So, India had to later on change many of those strict laws to ensure that everybody could have more freedom for a fair life.