How then the scenario changed so drastically after middle of 19th-century?

I am not going to provide you with all the answers here. The scope of this work is predefined. It is to raise enough doubt in your mind about the veracity of the impressions you hold. If you have any love and pride left in you for your own heritage then you should feel the urge to probe further. And that enquiry should lead you towards the truth. I shall only provide you with some clues here in summarized form.

ChristianBritish made Hindu Braahmans Rich

Things rapidly changed after introduction of ChristianEnglish Education System in 1835 which not only replaced but also systematically eliminated1 the ancient Hindu education system from this soil.

• You must understand one basic thing that it is education that shapes our understanding of this world and the happenings here; it is the education that shapes our thoughts and attitudes; it is the education that forms our value system.
• Braahmans were chosen by the ChristianBritish for their induction into Christianized Anglicized culture. As Braahmans were most literate and capable of adopting any new form of education with ease, they were made the first guinea pigs of new education system. The graduates were given plush jobs in ChristianBritish administration which dramatically raised their fortunes as these Braahmans earlier used to be poorest of all 4 Varn(s). With this change in their life style and living comforts - their whole attitude towards life and the society changed. With new Christianized education from childhood the newer generations of Braahman born were made to learn new philosophy and new attitudes towards life and its goal. Now they started becoming no less expansive in their life style and attitudes and the inherent contracting tendencies were soon replaced by Christianized expansive tendencies, the ills of all that we see today.

1 For additional details see Do your History textbooks tell you these Facts?

Braahmans were manipulated by the ChristianBritish

How these Braahmans were manipulated and then gradually victimized is a tale of conspiracy against humanity that I have touched upon in varying degree in two of my earlier works2. In this context, it must be understood that none of my works are stand alone and cannot tell the whole story at one place. There is a continuity and connectivity among all.

2 Recommended further reading: (1) Do your History textbooks tell you these Facts? (2) That unknown face of Christianity

Evidence incidental to the main theme

Macaulay: “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.”
A Hindu View of the World - Essays in the intellectual Kshatriya Tradition N S Rajaram ISBN 81-85990-52-2 [1998] p 181

In ChristianBritish company they became the so-called Upper Class

These Braahmans and Kshatriyas having been groomed up under ChristianizedEnglish education they learned to admire their ChristianBritish masters and adopted all3 their ills fully.

• They saw their ChristianBritish master acting as the oppressors of worst kind and they too gradually became much like them.
• They saw their ChristianBritish masters treating the poor section of people as dirt not as human beings and they also adopted those evils from their masters whom they admired.
• Then having corrupted these two classes very substantially, those very ChristianBritish masters and their ChristianBritish Missionary stooges turned the poorer class against the affluent class of Christianized Braahman and Kshatriya born.

3 Well, not all, strictly speaking. They still retained many good qualities, which they kept giving up gradually with each new generation. They kept reading and hearing that Braahmans had been at the root of most ills and they preferred to join the band wagon and keep drifting with the stream With each new generation under influence of ChristianEnglish Education they kept losing more and more of Braahmanical truthful qualities, and went on adopting more and more of ChristianEnglish deceptive qualities. In spite of all this, we find many gem of Braahmans till today!

Divide and Rule Policy is not British, it is Christian - it is the gift from their messiah Jesus Christ - and, here we have ample evidence from Holy Bible

What you saw above - first creating an upper class - isolating them from the mainstream - then poisoning the masses against that upper class - is the technique of creating division and putting one against the other.

ChristianBritish ran away from India in great hurry as they were in tatters due to the immense pressure built from outside4 and from inside5 but they did not forget to plant their stooges6 carefully placed in the new government and thus, left behind their legacy in form of ChristianEnglish educated Hindus who continued to practice Divide and Rule Policy as before.

4 ChristianGermans led by Adolf Hitler shattered the military supremacy of ChristianBritish
5 Azad Hind Fauz led by HinduIndian Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose pulled the carpet away from under the feet of the ChristianBritish
6 Jawaharlal Nehru was only one of such numerous characters, perhaps the better known one. However, with new revelations that have become public now, it is becoming apparent that his family was Muslim, not Braahman, not even a Hindu

Evidence incidental to the main theme

We find the following documentations in the authoritative text in the New Testament, the second part of Holy Bible.

• St Mathew was one of the Chief Disciples of Jesus Christ and he documented in Christian Bible what he heard himself from Jesus Christ. The documentation can be found in the 1st Gospel written by Saint Matthew.

Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against the mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 10:36 And a man’s foe shall be they of his own household. 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. 12: 30 He that is not with me is against me
Source: Holy Bible, King James Version, Pilot Books, ISBN 0-8400-3625-4 [1996] p 757
St Matthewan Apostle, and the author of the first Gospel — The New Oxford Dictionary of English ISBN 019-565432-3 p 1143
ApostleEach of the twelve chief disciples of Jesus Christ — The New Oxford Dictionary of English p 77
GospelThe record of Christ’s life and teachings in the first four books of the New Testament — The New Oxford Dictionary of English p 792
New TestamentThe second part of the Christian Bible — The New Oxford Dictionary of English p 1249

• Statements made by St Matthew were duly validated and can be found in the 3rd Gospel written by Saint Luke.

Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Source: Holy Bible, King James Version, Pilot Books, ISBN 0-8400-3625-4 [1996] p 815, p 827
Naya negative answerThe New Oxford Dictionary of English p 1237
St Lukean evangelist and the author of the third GospelThe New Oxford Dictionary of English p 1099

• St Thomas, better known in India, was one of the Chief Disciples of Jesus Christ and he too documented what he heard himself from Jesus Christ. The documentation can be found in the Gospel of Saint Thomas.

16 Jesus said: Perhaps men think that I came to cast peace on the world; and they do not know that I came to cast division upon earth, fire, sword, war. For five will be in a house; there will be three against two and two against three, the father against the son and the son against the father. And they will stand because they are single ones. 56 Jesus said: He who will not hate his father and his mother cannot be my disciple. And he who will not hate his brothers and sisters, and carry his cross as I have, will not become worthy of me.
Source: The Secret Sayings of Jesus (according to the Gospel of Thomas) Robert M Grant, et al, London 1960, quoted in The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple Ishwar Sharan ISBN 81-85990-21-2 [1995] p 76 n
St Thomasan ApostleThe New Oxford Dictionary of English p 1928

Thus, you witness here what the Messiah himself said in very clear language to his own disciples as to what he truly wanted of his followers. You must realize that all those sweet words about so much overflowing love for humanity is nothing but advertisement to cover up the truth.
Therefore, you need to understand very clearly yet another thing, that is, so long the influence of Christianity remains on this Hindu land, the people living on this land will continue to practice that Divide and Rule Policy.

What you often fail to notice that it is not the “true” Hindus that practice Divide and Rule Policy for they believe in unifying and building, not breaking and destroying7. It is the Hindu born ChristianEnglish Educated and “their offshoots” who have been, and continue to, practice this policy. But then it has become very difficult to isolate them for identification simply because their numbers have grown exponentially, and they have become so numerous that they can be seen everywhere around you. To top it, they take one very special precaution: they do not give up their Hindu names8 while continuing their subversion activities9. With their suffocating grip over media and power platform of every kind10 they keep managing their destructive game un-understood by the gullible11 Hindus.

7 And yet, sometimes it becomes necessary to destroy a rotten base.
8 Offhand one example surfaces my mind at this very moment - Arundhati Roy. You will find detailed account of her subverting conducts in my other works. But remember that she happens to be just one example, perhaps a better known one; there are plenty of such characters all around you.
9 Subvert: (1) to try to destroy the authority of a political, religious, etc. system by attacking it secretly or indirectly (2) to try to destroy a person’s beliefs or loyalties. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English Sixth Ed 2000 ISBN 019 431 5851 CD-ROM
10 Financial, administration, political arena, government and its institutions, educational, etc.
11 Gullible: too willing to believe or accept what other people tell you and therefore easily tricked. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English CD-ROM

Before you proceed
Explanatory notes

Background
Humanity has been put on Trial by those very people who conspired against humanity
And, they accused such humanity which had no parallel in documented history of mankind

Let us put it on Trial again with a new set of Evidences
How then the scenario changed so drastically after middle of 19th-century?

Importance of Pedigree
It was not social discrimination but social structure for a balanced society
Plenty of strength in social structure of Hindu society

Understanding Hindu FamilyDharm'
Marriages under Hindu Joint Family system vs. Modern marriages
The Secret of Stable Hindu marriages of yesteryear

Purpose of Varn Vyavastha wrongly termed as Cast System
Rigorous life cycle of a Braahman born
All Shoodrs were NOT Untouchable

No point seeking the Escape Route
ChaaturVarnyam Mayaa Srishtam
Timing the event of birth