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I've no interest in anything other than facts - complete ones not things that can only be guessed churned up by some one with an axe to grind.
Actually I probably know more about the UK's exploitation now and in the past than you do. History interests me.
You prefer the history that absolves UK from the poverty and misery endured by the people of the colonies. Poverty and misery that continues to this day caused by the appropriation of the wealth of the colonies by the UK. Not just the UK, other colonial countries were as guilty of causing the misery and poverty that continues to this day.
It's there for you to read, you say you have an interest, but you refuse to believe it. Instead you accuse those that are aware of such history of being right wing trolls.
Economic impact
A significant fact which stands out is that those parts of India which have been longest under British rule are the poorest today. Indeed some kind of chart might be drawn up to indicate the close connection between length of British rule and progressive growth of poverty.
Jawaharlal Nehru, on the economic effects of the British rule, in his book The Discovery of India[123]

Historians continue to debate whether the long-term impact of British rule was to accelerate the economic development of India, or to distort and ret@rd it. In 1780, the conservative British politician Edmund Burke raised the issue of India's position: he vehemently attacked the East India Company, claiming that Warren Hastings and other top officials had ruined the Indian economy and society. Indian historian Rajat Kanta Ray (1998) continues this line of attack, saying the new economy brought by the British in the 18th century was a form of "plunder" and a catastrophe for the traditional economy of the Mughal Empire.[124] Ray accuses the British of depleting the food and money stocks and of imposing high taxes that helped cause the terrible Bengal famine of 1770, which killed a third of the people of Bengal
A counter view, in the same article
P. J. Marshall shows that recent scholarship has reinterpreted the view that the prosperity of the formerly benign Mughal rule gave way to poverty and anarchy.
Marshall admits that much of his interpretation is still highly controversial among many historians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj
Deny it all you want, but that is the history that you refuse to accept.

Edit: I see ret@rd doesn't pass the auto censor these days. :rolleyes:
 
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You prefer the history that absolves UK from the poverty and misery endured by the people of the colonies. Poverty and misery that continues to this day caused by the appropriation of the wealth of the colonies by the UK. Not just the UK, other colonial countries were as guilty of causing the misery and poverty that continues to this day.
It's there for you to read, you say you have an interest, but you refuse to believe it. Instead you accuse those that are aware of such history of being right wing trolls.
Economic impact
A significant fact which stands out is that those parts of India which have been longest under British rule are the poorest today. Indeed some kind of chart might be drawn up to indicate the close connection between length of British rule and progressive growth of poverty.
Jawaharlal Nehru, on the economic effects of the British rule, in his book The Discovery of India[123]

Historians continue to debate whether the long-term impact of British rule was to accelerate the economic development of India, or to distort and ret@rd it. In 1780, the conservative British politician Edmund Burke raised the issue of India's position: he vehemently attacked the East India Company, claiming that Warren Hastings and other top officials had ruined the Indian economy and society. Indian historian Rajat Kanta Ray (1998) continues this line of attack, saying the new economy brought by the British in the 18th century was a form of "plunder" and a catastrophe for the traditional economy of the Mughal Empire.[124] Ray accuses the British of depleting the food and money stocks and of imposing high taxes that helped cause the terrible Bengal famine of 1770, which killed a third of the people of Bengal
A counter view, in the same article
P. J. Marshall shows that recent scholarship has reinterpreted the view that the prosperity of the formerly benign Mughal rule gave way to poverty and anarchy.
Marshall admits that much of his interpretation is still highly controversial among many historians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj
Deny it all you want, but that is the history that you refuse to accept.

Edit: I see ret@rd doesn't pass the auto censor these days. :rolleyes:


Robert Mugabe would love your logic.
 
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