There is a tendency in the anglophone world to depict the British colonial rule as somehow beneficial to the 'Brown' races of India. The color equation is alway just below the surface.
I made no mention of color, nor was I thinking about color. Indeed, I made a post on another thread a few days ago pointing out that East Asians (which includes Indians) score about 6 points higher on standardized I.Q. tests than do Caucasians. Moreover, the few Indians I know are among the smartest people I've ever met, as well as being warm and wonderful folks. So nothing I said should be taken to be coming from a racial point of view.
The british rule was worse than the Muslim rule..The muslims came..conquered but left most of the population and the economy alone.
It's impossible to re-write history, of course, but I would submit that had India been colonized completely by muslims and had muslim rule extended to the present day, India would be in the same predicament as other islamically controlled nations are today, to wit, completely dependent upon Western ideas and technologies for their continued survival. India has been fortunate indeed to avoid such a potential catastrophe.
East Asian Indians ARE caucasians.
(It's a small part of why we speak a language in the Indo-European language group)
Digressing on one of your sub-topics, being an Indian, I dont think Indians as a race have a higher IQ than Whites or anyone else. Same goes for Oriental people (I dont mean to sound offensive but thats the only polite way to collective describe Far east Asians).
Its useless to collectively attribute some qualities to an entire race of people. Plenty of Indians are much dumber and more useless than their White, Black or Oriental counterparts. What else would you say about people who still vote even to the scummiest of politicians on the basis of Caste in every election ? That said, Indians are not the one to blame either.
Lower intelligence is typical of people who tend to group think and trivialize originality. In India, the group tends to be caste. And so, people who strongly associate themselves with their Caste tend to bring their MOB-like mentality to every aspect of their life.
One cannot ponder over the insightful saying of Heinlein "The IQ of any Mob is that of the man with the lowest IQ and the loudest mouth."
I also remember a novel by Solzenitsyn, cant remember the title, in which a German academician tries to talk some sense into a group of Russian soldiers when they are pillaging his town.. as soon as one man starts laughing in the middle of his speech, all the soldiers catch that infectious laughter and waste no time in dispensing a bullet through his ear.