[legolas2412]

You're distracting from the point. It doesn't matter how strong the central government is or how divided the population is.

What we are discussing is foreign ownership and foreign power over India, and you just said that allowing EIC too much of these was a mistake

[kranner]

I have not said any such thing. I said GP had argued it. It is absurd because there was no such “we” at the time.