The British ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent, dividing India into two parts, one to divide and rule the 550 city-states, and the other to make the rest of India a British province, and then divide the province into Afghanistan and India. Before allowing India to become independent, India and Pakistan were partitioned, and Burma, Sikkim, Nepal, and Bhutan were also allowed to become independent. Pakistan was later split in two and became Pakistan and Bangladesh.
I believe that even if India had not become independent at the beginning, it would not have developed very well now. There are three main reasons:
1. The essence of colonialism in British rule of India, no matter what, will not change, that is, plunder and oppression. If you disagree, look online for a speech by Dr Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Dr Shashi Tharoor, at a debate hosted by the Oxford Student Federation. He said that at the time of British colonization, India's economy accounted for 23 percent of the world's economy. But this 23% became the basis of the British 200 years, which was obtained by squeezing India. He thinks"The Industrial Revolution in Britain was premised on the deindustrialization of India"(sic). A country that has been plundered and oppressed has no chance of being developed, and the suzerainty will not give you such an opportunity.
2. Is it necessary to maintain a colonial status and be developed? Not necessarily! Here are living examples. This is the case of Puerto Rico, a country in Central America, which has been living as a colonist, and wanted to vote to become the 51st state of the United States a while ago. But this small country, to this day, is still a country that can only survive on US aid. There is also Liberia in Africa, where even the land is American"Give"of ......Now one of the poorest countries in the world.
3. What kind of people you are determines what kind of country you can become. India is racially hierarchical, and Indians have little fighting spirit and are la......zy by natureIn this way, if we want to become a developed country, we have a long way to go.
India's development from 1947 after independence to the present, on the whole is very unsatisfactory, at the beginning of both agriculture and industry are among the best in the world, much stronger than China at that time, and today a considerable part of the Indian people are in a state of hunger, industry has not made any achievements, the infrastructure is old, that is, in the military is more crazy, fought a few wars, and did not make much money.
Overall, it feels like the British withdrew from India, and India began to slowly eat the old book, so that today the old book is almost finished, and it is still poor and backward, ** heavy, and there is no independent development of governance and management ability, which is not a little and a half star compared to the British, but very large, and the Indians are a nation that needs to be dragged by others, and they are really speechless.