Well, it is not just the English that dismantled it, it had already gotten weak if you look at India's output to science and research by the time they came. The

Well, it is not just the English that dismantled it, it had already gotten weak if you look at India's output to science and research by the time they came. They did very well manipulate the system to be advantageous to them and make it easier for them to rule, which was what most colonisers were doing.