"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.
I have nothing to add to this discussion beyond what I wrote in my posts #35 and #39.
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-ensured free trade,
Free trade? really? India was trading with the europeans long before there was an east india company and India and china constituted a large part of world trade. The british rule ruined that.
>created a well developed system of railways and >telegraphs,
Are the countries where railways exist all british colonies? If not why wouldnt there be a railway in India without british rule?
And what about the absence of highways? What about lack of education and healthcare?
>>"a bureaucracy free from political interferences"
to serve its own purpose.
>>" and a modern legal system"
do only british colonies have that?
Its downright arrogant to assume that no progress could have happened there without british rule.