Ramesh answers “As an Indian I find this writer's venom...”

Engelbert Humper asked this question about An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India:

As an Indian I find this writer's venom against Britain more than a bit embarrassing. Britain left India about 70 years ago and with all the resources of modern technology India could have solved its problems of poverty long ago, instead of being the world's greatest reservoir of human misery. The British did a lot of good in India and in their empire, as well as a lot of evil. United India without them? A joke.

Ramesh How can you possible ignore the 300 pages of evidence he gives to how India was raped and plundered systemattically for 20 decades? if you dont like t…moreHow can you possible ignore the 300 pages of evidence he gives to how India was raped and plundered systemattically for 20 decades? if you dont like the writer, then follow the trail he leaves with his detailed notes. If you still think that India should have bounced back (ignorant of the slow progress in virtually every post-colonial nation) from 200 yrs of servitude, you're lost. Finally- just look at England after they lost their Empire. In 1950, British output per head was still 30 per cent ahead of the six founder members of the EEC, but within 50 years it had been overtaken by many (less)

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