We could say that inadvertently, the British coming to India contributed to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sankirtana movement . They introduced Western sciences , different technologies, and educational system’s and taught the citizens of India world cultures . The British were practically all over the world. This new order  needed understanding and persons like Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja who were highly learned scholars in their own right . Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja made many extremely cultured and learned persons into his leading disciples , including Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada . They were all well schooled and  educated in British led educational system’s and colleges. Prabhupada had great respect for his professors, whom he described as kind gentleman. Those of the British who were political leaders  and who were influenced by the East India company were the ruthless ones . Influences of businessmen were deeply imbeded within the colonial consciousness, and they take profit at any cost, literally, including cutting the thumbs of weavers . The British wanted sown cloth imported from the UK from the Lancashire Mills.
With the education and the  communications given to India’s citizens , the western thinking they introduced meant it was very easy for our acaryas to understand something of thdthe  new modern world and bring Vedic Culures to the West . They  transposed Vedanta philisophical life into the  Western cultures, and in time , especially in todays world, the Vedic sciences are becoming more and more  respected . Both Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger studied aspects of the Vedas dealing with consciousness.
The many possibilities of quantum physics tell of a responsive universe. This is the  universe the Vedas defines. Although the British invaded India , that invasion led to a different sort of invasion,  The Vedas is infiltrating every corner of the world with its effects increasingly being appreciated. The mission of Mahaprabhu has only just begun. We have seen nothing yet .

More on this soon.
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