[crocwrestler]

How were a couple of thousand British administrators able to subjugate millions of Indians so completely?

[randomcarbloke]

they didn't, the above is hindunat propaganda and it is worryingly becoming accepted.

[rramadass]

In their own words;

Empire in Asia, How we came by it : A Book of Confessions by W. M. Torrens - https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01877/page/n5/mode/...

More at - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33979856