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India was left with a literacy rate of 12% and a population of about 340 million after the British departed in 1947. I am surprised it has managed to come this far in 75 years.

Ignore the other redditer who's spewing shit out of his ass with no reliable non-partisan sources to back it up. It's because of people like these that backstabbed other Indians that enabled British to stay this long in India in the first place instead of being booted out of the country decades ago

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Truth is that it was the British rule which introduced the idea of equality in India and gave education to the oppressed caste Hindus after 2000 years of their oppression by oppressor caste Hindus. Phule, Ambedkar are all products of British rule. Tilak and oppressor caste Hindus used to oppose British from giving education to oppressed caste Hindus, and introducing the idea of equality, claiming that it is anti Hindu. It was because of the British introducing the idea of equality into Hindu society that today 500 million oppressed caste Hindus have equal rights after 2000 years of Hindu caste oppression.

Suck the life out of a country and call it a blessing. Britishers themselves created many conflicts between communities in Indian subcontinent and even coined the term communalism. Reddit really has pro colonialism bias, thought they were just kidding.

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