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> British just came, looted and left. It would be good if people stopped attributing every god-damned thing about India to the "British Influence". My bad. I j
by bdhe 16y ago
> British just came, looted and left. It would be good if people stopped attributing every god-damned thing about India to the "British Influence".
My bad. I just wondered, considering that British humour is a lot dryer than American humour. I apologize if my comment was misconstrued in anyway.
- FraaJad 16y agoSorry for being a little harsh there. At the height of British occupation , there were not more than 1700(!) British people at the same time on the Indian subcontinent. Which itself is a fantastic testament to the British Raj's bureaucratic machinery. The English education was an instrument in creating that machinery.
- arethuza 16y agoThat's a surprisingly low number - the Wikipedia page on the Raj gives a count of 125,945 Britains in India in 1861 of which 84,083 were in the Army. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj
- FraaJad 16y agothanks for the citation. I had a feeling that 1700 was too low a number.