Nope, op is correct. One rule of the thumb in India is that closer the area is to British rule, the more poor and plundered it is. Auroville in South was plund

Nope, op is correct. One rule of the thumb in India is that closer the area is to British rule, the more poor and plundered it is. Auroville in South was plundered and the colonists burnt the forests around it leaving it completely barren. It was recently rebuilt and is still work in progress to return it back to the original state