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    Posted: 31-Jan-2008 at 14:25
How is it that India is knows as one of the biggest democracies around ?
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Jan-2008 at 13:13

Efficient? Incorruptible? The civil service? And democracy? Ah yes, British India was never democratic.
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Plus when it started a good efficient and incorrptible civil service and a founding in democracy
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Jan-2008 at 12:01
The British were not the first ones to unite S Asia. The Mauryans, the Khiljis, the Mughals etc. ANd BTW there is still no India, it has what 17 insurgencies going on right now. The only thing new S Asia got out of British rule were railroads and syphallis. And I suspect it would have gotten both anyhow.
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It seems to me that although many decry the British rule of India as oppressive and exploitative, there would be no India at all if Britain hadn't conquered it. Wasn't it the case that the Indian subcontinent was nothing more than a plurality of warring principalities before Britain conquered (and unified) it? I know for a fact that English is the single consistently spoken language and throughout the subcontinent (probably a good thing for India and Pakistan on the world stage) and that the second most prominently spoken is Hindi, which is not nearly as prevalent. India, it seems to me, would still be a highly balkanized and unimportant region of the world (if infact it could have retained its sovereignty in a disunited state for so long) if it weren't for the British occupation and unification of the country.
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