Inadvertently, the British helped legitimize and popularize the Kumbh Mela as the supreme sacred festival.
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During that time the British administration, in collaboration with the local police and heads of pilgrim organizations, made attempts to improve the infrastructure of the Kumbh Mela, including laying new railway lines, widening the access roads and building bigger bathing platforms, or ghats.