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> And, India got partitioned into 3 countries, all of which have spend insane amounts of resources fighting each other when that same could have been spent on e
by sgift 8y ago
> And, India got partitioned into 3 countries, all of which have spend insane amounts of resources fighting each other when that same could have been spent on economic development and other hostile neighbors of the unified India would have been smaller in size to be a threat.
Which they weren't forced too. That's not a "cost" of colonization but a cost of not choosing another path.
- tareqak 8y agoThey weren't forced to partition, but they were led down that path by the British in an attempt to divide them as they left. The thinking was that the divided former colonies would drive themselves into such a state such that they would invite their colonial masters back to rule over them. There was definitely religious violence in South Asia before colonization, but the scale and depth definitely increased during and after.