Railways to take away raw materials. Educated? India's literacy rate in 1947 was 12% Look at british literacy rate when they became a big empire. https://www1

Railways to take away raw materials. Educated? India's literacy rate in 1947 was 12% Look at british literacy rate when they became a big empire. https://www1.umassd.edu/ir/resources/laboreducation/literacy.pdf https://www1.umassd.edu/ir/resources/laboreducation/literacy... Even though it might be because of industrialization and not colonization, India could have industrialized faster without being a colonial subject.