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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.
Patti Well, golly, Hump, not sure if you are a troll or just love using the grandest of British verbal weapons: embarrassment to incite the many. The Brits …moreWell, golly, Hump, not sure if you are a troll or just love using the grandest of British verbal weapons: embarrassment to incite the many. The Brits have an illustrious track record of destroying economies and governments worldwide in the name of colonialism. I give you the Opium war of 1820 where England embarked on an initiative to destroy the successful existing Chinese empire and economy They succeeded and it has taken China until the 21st century to return to equivalent strength and success. However, your question generated most enlightened responses which I truly enjoyed reading.(less)
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