he improvement in health service in colonial times. Between the years 1750 and 1950, at the height of the demographic explosion of the western world, the Middle Class has replaced the old elite. There is no doubt that there is a correlation between the two events. Most historians point to the French revolution as the event that triggered the change. This study claims that the French Revolution was the culmination of a process that has started much earlier and the French Revolution has only caused it to come out to the open in a violent manner. There are a number of arguments to support this view. The Industrial Revolution has predated the French Revolution. It was previously shown that the Industrial Index of the United Kingdom and India were about equal in the year 1750, while the index of India was one hundredth of that of England by the year 1900. There are no reliable numbers for the year 1800, but there seems to be no doubt that the rate of the English industrialization was much higher than the Indian one. Not hundred times as much as it was in 1900, but certainly much higher. In 1800 AD, steam power was already in use. It was not yet used in transport, although it was only a few short years before the first steamship came into use. It happened with all new scientific and technological advance. Once the basic principles were found, it was only a question of time and commercial consideration, until the new invention was harnessed to a multitude of application. It happened to steam power, as ...
