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Sukhamaya
When you support the view that all the Indians would have converted to Islam and that that would be possible just in about 200 years (1757- ), are you not referring to a demographic catastrophe that could happen if the British "rescuers" were not here? Demography is continually changing. But it is the colonial master who arrested it's most devastating form! That is really hard to believe!
There is no denying the fact that British helped the Indians with many reforms. But the initiatives had to come from the Indian themselves. India has witnessed many reforms movement before the arrival of the British. An example is fifteenth century movement by Chaitanya Deb.
Indian societies have many weaknesses. It has many strengths too. My point was that fruitful exchanges are possible and probably more effective if the exchanging partners are on equal footing. I believe a master-servant relationship is not desirable. Particularly this is not desirable at all when it comes to India which has a highly respectable cultural heritage.
India in general has been very argumentative throughout history. There has always been opposing currents of views and thoughts. Some ancient sages have said that it is only the Brahmans who can have access to the Vedas. Dwaipayan Vyasa, the author of the Mahabharata (written about 2500 years ago), did not agree to that. According to him, "Nothing is above man." India had Charvaks. India saw Kings like Asoka and Akbar.
What I want to say is this: it is highly probable that India would not have done worse than what it has done now after British intervention. But Indians definitely would have needed to be enlightened by the new light that Europe brought for itself from which rest of the world also benefited. I emphasize again: that enlightenment would be possible (even would be better) without being colonized.
-SC
N.B. British stole all the gold from the Tajmahal and then put the entire complex to auction for selling the valuable stone. This is just one of the notorious things that British did as a colonial master.
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