The best thing that ever happened to India was being made a part of the British Empire. It's taken a century or so, but now India is truly beginning to reap the rewards of having learned how to respect order and the rule of law in an English-speaking democracy.
This is true and a singular reason for the desirability of cementing a firm alliance. They wasted a generation dallying with the scumbag Nehru, but have been making up ground lost due to that socialist abortion in recent decades. Plus they have a billion people entering the middle class(read: "Market") faster than China's are.
The best thing that ever happened to India was being made a part of the British Empire. It's taken a century or so, but now India is truly beginning to reap the rewards of having learned how to respect order and the rule of law in an English-speaking democracy.
No sir...That is exteremely wrong statement...In the 1700 when the british were not around,India produced 20% of the world's GDP ...By the time british left in 1947 India was barely producing 1% of the world's GDP....If India would have somehow managed to stay independent of the british, India would be rivaling today's Japan in terms of development... British leeches did nothing but suck blood out of India.....They systematically destroyed industry and skills..
I am surprised to hear such comments from Americans who themselves threw away the British rule...
What happened to Pakistan and Iraq?
"The best thing that ever happened to India was being made a part of the British Empire."
Except India went from being a prosperous country to being one of the most impoverished under british rule. Its a fact. So no... the british didnt do much good there.