从印度被征服到发生起义的一百年中,英国在印度确立了自己的统冶,对印度人民的剥削日益加强,这一切引起了印度一系列的社会经济变化。1857—1859年民族起义的经济前提就是在这些变化的过程中形成的。英国殖民者征服印度,是正当资本主义在英国确立的时候开始的。这个时期(十八世纪后半叶到十九世纪初期),对印度进行的殖民剥削,采取了特殊的方式。马克思指出:“在整个十八世纪中,从印度流入英国的财富,与其说是通过比较不重要的贸易手段获得的,毋宁说是通过直接掠夺这个国家,抢占大量财富的办法获得,然后运往英国去的。”对印度农民进行税收掠夺是这个时期殖民剥削的 In the one hundred years from the conquest of India to the uprising, the United Kingdom established its own reins in India and its exploitation of the Indian people has been increasingly strengthened. All this has triggered a series of social and economic changes in India. The economic preconditions of the national uprising of 1857-1859 were formed during these changes. The British colonists’ conquest of India began exactly when capitalism was established in England. This period (the second half of the eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century) took a special approach to the colonial exploitation of India. Marx pointed out: “Throughout the eighteenth century, the wealth flowing from India into the United Kingdom was not so much a deal as it was with less-important means of trade, rather it was obtained by plundering the country directly, seizing a great deal of wealth and then shipped to the United Kingdom Go. ”The tax exploitation of Indian peasants during this period was colonial exploitation