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To: sandeep who wrote (12053)	6/3/2002 12:37:44 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Well, even before the British came, conditions in India, far from being glorious, were in fact wretched and chaotic. Without the British, the term "India" had no meaning. There was no India. Just a bunch of constantly squabbling kingdoms. Brigands freely roamed the land. And there was not much difference between brigands and rulers, for most of the kings, were inhumanly exploitative. Some people smugly attribute all the ills of contemporary India to colonial exploitation, and promise to restore the nation to its imagined glorious state before the British conquest. This is sheer fantasy. And 50 years after the British left, the brigands are back now, in the shape of Bal Thackeray et al.