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by aluksi 479 days ago
all that can be traced back to the British colonization and exploitation of India's wealth and resources. At least now, folks don't die of hunger.
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I’m sure that’s a contributor but at some point people need to drop the historical excuse and find ways past it.
The British Raj never died, the babus just took it over and sat down in the same chairs and kept the institutions running the same way.
Not all of it. Our Institutions are not as strong as Western counterparts and not week as our neighbours to collapse into military dictatorship.

I blame the absolutist institutions more than colonization.