Why was india considered the ""jewel in the crown"" of the british empire?

money

Explanation: India had a large population that could be exploited through taxes on good like textiles,spices,and cotton which helped bolster British wealth and India was used to grow opium which would be sent to China for even more money which is why India is seen as the jewel in the crown

we pointed them north: recollections of a cowpuncher by e.c. “teddy blue” abbott tells us of the history of nomad cowboys in north america. as the   frontiers began moving west, trails of cowboys of the 1870s and ’80s drove herds of cattle from texas to the northern ranges and railheads, and then rode back south to do it again. they gradually pushed   native americans out of their lands, until in 1889 the   government transferred white   colonists the indian land.