[sam_paine]

What evidence you have to prove that?

Please address the table in Post 31.

I am not minimizing the pain caused by colonization. I am pointing out that India was lucky to go through the pain of British colonization instead of Chinese, French or who knows what.

Of course nobody can say what India would be today otherwise, but it is impossible to get around the fact that it is far and away better off than if it were infected by the French

The reality was that British Empire was only a shade better then Nazi Germany.

Except that the result of one leads the world in freedom and prosperity, and the other was defeated in WWII and re-colonized by ex-British colonies.

[Gengis Khan]

"Of course nobody can say what India would be today otherwise, but it is impossible to get around the fact that it is far and away better off than if it were infected by the French"

I dont know of any French colonies that had anything close to the Irish famines or a far more devastating Bengal famine that on sheer human scale dwarfs Stalin's reign of terror or equals Mao's cultural revolution.

"Except that the result of one leads the world in freedom and prosperity, and the other was defeated in WWII and re-colonized by ex-British colonies."

Thats the only difference. Germany lost and Britain won (albiet with large number of soldiers from India to do the fighting and dying)......and then Britain wrote her own version of history for your consumption.

[DesiCoderExtreme]

Funny how these experts on colonization crawl out the woodwork knowing jack. Yeah India should be grateful for the empire, grateful for famine, partition and holocaust. The British empire was responsible for the festering boil on the face of civilization PAKISTAN. Yeah, sure the world is grateful.