What a skewed and distorted version of history, akin to Neo-Nazis denying the Holocaust or Japanese whitewashing their atrocities in Asia during the second world war.
Indians got more money under the Raj; instead of saving and investing, they increased their population by 100 MILLION people. It wasn’t that the Indian economy collapsed, it’s just that other economies grew so much.https://twitter.com/abhishekbit/status/1154133828278992896 …
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Ah thats why the Brits did a genocide in Bengal(3 million were starved to death)! They just wanted to fix the population problem and improve the economy!
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Right! The British were philanthropists and their mission was to democratize the world...by the Queens order
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India had a higher GDP when british colonised India.They imposed 50percent tariff on the sugar and cotton we produced and destroyed the spinnig mill we had by setting on fire and cutting the muslin weaver's finger.then exported cotton textiles weaven from our own cotton to us
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Everyone wants to roll back the clock and play what-ifs with conveniently controlled variables. Where would the US be if it had a fiscally sound policy and not 22 trillion in debt?
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A study also suggests that Britain may have ended massive famines in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India … "the extension of the railroad by the British put an end to the massive famines in times of peace in the 20th century" http://dave-donaldson.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Burgess_Donaldson_Volatility_Paper.pdf …
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https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-the-bengal-famine/ … "The Cabinet cited other causes of the famine rarely mentioned in latter-day denunciations of Churchill: the shortages were “partly political in character, caused by Marwari supporters of Congress [Gandhi’s party] in an effort to embarrass the existing...
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Plenty of famines under the mughal rule as well. Who put an end to them?
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Seams about right in a time most heavy industry was being build in England and France and Germany...
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There's a decent argument that the British systems enforced a peace that India wasn't culturally ready for causing a boom bust.
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Myopic vision of history that's all needs to be said for this particular tweet
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They owe us 45 trillion pounds....still they have no shame
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