Easy...The Brits latched on the fact that most Indians would sell their own mother for profit...rest is history. BTW, India was the richest nation on Earth prior to the Brit take-over. Then the riches started flowing to the England.
I just don't understand the self-loathing that so many people feel because of their history. It's not just Arabs or Indians or Maya or Zapatistas or San Francisco pacifists, it's everywhere!
Instead of being proud of where they are and who they are, they spend every moment of every day foaming about what they could have been except for what their forefathers were hundreds or thousands of years earlier.
I'm proud of who I am, even though my past is tainted by some slaveowners, some American Indians, some Downtrodden Irish drunks, some French-German, and most recent and distrubing....som Yankee blood (shiver!)
But I hope to make the best of it yet, and I thank God every day I was lucky enough to be born in Texas! Now, screw all y'all!