Huh??? Makes no sense... how many crore is that???
All taxes are stealing.
World isn't fair and it never was. British did the "needful" to help grow their empire, Indians kingdoms should have done the same!
Done the needful on the same, you mean?
More than taxes, it was the divide and rule policy that they implanted that totally destroyed India.
Yeah exploited the existing bad culture (like caste) and brought in more bad culture.
Yeah. I don’t think it’s ever going to change. Not even education.
As an Indian person, it blows my mind even today that a few thousand visibly foreign individuals ruled such a giant nation for centuries. One wonders if it's the same 'FANG dev hating Infosys contractor' at play in the 21st century.
Good point. Indian masses were never really interested in Independence. They probably had the same chalta hai attitude we have today. On the other end of spectrum are Afghan people who have replled 3 invasion attempts by superpowers (British, Russian, US) in face of a massive technology gap. Only reason India got Independence was WW2 and maybe a little bit of Gandhi mass mobilization. I'm doubtful they would have left without WW2.
Initially they werent interested. They were not worse off than under the ruling of mughal dictators. To them mostly it didnt matter who was ruling. Until the british raised taxes massively and forced the farmers to cultivate crops that only benefits them an d let them starve. Then it did matter. But I think their will for fighting a war for it and risking death/injury wasnt there much. The only notable armed rebellion happened after 100 years of british rule was by the sepoys(indian army people working for british) called sepoy mutiny and it was for a laughable reason. Yes you guessed it religious reason. And yes, most of the british army were comprised of indian working for them. They didnt care until they heard a rumour that the british gun cartridges and grenades are made of cow/pig leather which is against hindu/muslim faith. Aeons of ruling by foreign oppressive forces broke the backbone of general public. We still feel the effect of this. Indian public do not trust any government. Do not care about paying taxes if they could avoid. Save kilograms of gold in their home instead of putting money in banks. Looking after oneself and hiding wealth from goverment is a result of this.
The main reason Europeans especially British folks felt the need to colonize other parts of the world was because they didn’t have any natural resources. They couldn’t grow shit while India and Africa was rich with natural resources and could grow very valuable crops.
Wow did you just justify colonization ? There is something called Trade.If you feel like you don’t have something you buy you don’t threaten and steal.
Yes, naked plunder and brutal forced labor was required by early capitalism to jump-start industry and seek out new profitable investments.
But today’s Brits and Americans celebrate Churchill as a hero as who defeated Hitler. Churchill and Hitler are no different when it comes to individual character both are racist and killed millions with their actions.
Numbers courtesy of the same people who claim that software piracy costs the industry trillions of dollars...
China is doing much the same right now in Africa, without firing a single shot.