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by gozur88 3594 days ago
That's not an easy statement to make at all. The Indian kingdoms were perpetually at war, and there's no reason to think things would have changed without the British. Beyond that, the Brits left India with a common language and pretty good set of governance institutions.
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Actually, it's a really easy statement to make. The British were directly responsible for millions of deaths in India.
"Millions"? How is that?