A wise administration would presumably look to their abatement, rather than otherwise.

At this point the material interest of the common man would seem to coincide with that of the Imperial establishment.

Still, his preconceived notions of the wisdom and beneficence of his gentlefolk would presumably hinder his seeing the matter in that reasonable light.
Under the paramount surveillance of such an alien power, guided solely by its own interest in the usufruct of the country and its population, it is to be presumed that class privileges and discrimination would be greatly abated if not altogether discontinued.

The point is in some doubt, partly because this alien establishment whose dominion is in question is itself grounded in class prerogatives and discrimination, and so, not improbably, it would carry over into its supervision of the underlying nations something of a bias in favor of class privileges.

And a similar order of things might also result by choice of a class-system as a convenient means of control and exploitation.