[kumarvvr]

> Lest we think these ancient peasants ever actually had it good before the foreigners showed up

They sure as hell had it much worse after the invaders, looters and religious fanatics wreaked havoc in the region for 1000 years.

[hef19898]

Poor, landless peasants had a hard life everywhere, regardless of whom they served. Believing otherwise means you are lying to yourself.

The caste system, as all similar systems that existed in all kinds of places throughout history, is one of the worst, inhuman and unjust social systems that currently exists. It is basically apartheid based on religion and history. It is carried over from centuries ago, and right now all progress that was made in abolishing it is rolled back by higher caste Indian nationalists to score political points. And the latter part has nothing to do with colonialism and all the shitty things the British did in India.

No country needs foreigners to screw things up, societies are quite at doing all of this themselves.

[gspr]

Do you see how far you've moved the goalposts? You start out claiming things like food being plentiful and cheap for everyone, yet now it's "it was better before at least".

[unmole]

> They sure as hell had it much worse after

Which is very different from your original absurd claim.