[dfwgator]

English, a non-native language was a natural compromise as its every group’s second language. Using it didn’t put one ethnicity above the rest.

It's India's saving grace.

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The irony is that if the British had not built the Raj, India would not be a country, but a subcontinent of many countries. They stitched it together and it ultimately only split into 3 parts as opposed to dozens.