[minus_273]

out of curiosity who built india's railroads, civil service, roads and other critical infrastructure? can you show me what the Nazis did?

[Gengis Khan]

So you are an apologist for those imperialists? Oh so you are!

I dont think any Indian asked to be enslaved in return for...... "railroads, civil service, roads and other *critical* infrastructure" .
Nope we didnt asked for it. We could have/would have built it ourselves or at worst done without it.

[mindfever]

..."who built india's railroads, civil service, roads and other critical infrastructure?"...

You aren't suggesting that the Brits did this out of purely philanthrophic motives are you? Hmm.. the rail-roads were for shipping off cheap raw materials back to York to the factories. Civil Services, coz not too many of the educated young gentlemen from good ol' Britain were too keen on an Indian posting, what with the heat, poverty, diseases and all. Roads because India is actually pretty big in size and was bigger pre-independance.

On the topic of philanthrophy, why didn't they industrialize India as much as the UK?

[aidni]

Along eith that they also created the one of the worst man made Drought of bengal only surpasssed by Cultural revolution

They also converted a country which was propperous into one that had over 70% of its people under the poverty line