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To: kumar who wrote (219895)	2/20/2007 11:56:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) of 281500

India did a lot better under British rule than it did under Indian rule. The first thing Gandhi did was supervise partition and genocide, which continues to today in part. Not that he was in favour of it, but that's what he was in charge of. What were the total numbers killed during British rule over centuries, as a result of enforcement of colonial rules? How many were killed as a result of internecine warfare since the British left? I actually don't know the answer, but guess it's more due to local yokels killing each other to gain power. How about GDP growth per capita while the British were in charge compared with the 50 years afterwards? It looked to me as though the place came to a standstill after the British left. I note that India never paid Britain a royalty for use of english language, habeas corpus and other laws and all the other good things Great Britain provided. There was a lot of confiscation of capital too I suppose. I'm sure railways and other things were stolen from overseas investors. The reason Britain could take over so many places such as India and New Zealand was that the local yokels ran barbarous regimes and the British offered civilisation; Gandhi's joke about British civilisation notwithstanding. I think it was him. "What do you think of British civilisation?" "I think it would be an excellent idea". Quite funny really. Let's face it, the rack, thumbscrew and cat o' nine tails were not the height of civilisation. Nor were many other attributes. It was a matter of what was less barbaric in the 19th century. Around the world, civilization was thin on the ground, and still is. Mqurice

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