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Curious what the benefit of all the courts, universities, and administrative agencies that the British built is in the long term(also in the 1880s 20% of Britai
by kaczordon 6y ago
Curious what the benefit of all the courts, universities, and administrative agencies that the British built is in the long term(also in the 1880s 20% of Britain’s exports were to India). Or the benefit of the vehicle of its independence, the Congress Party. Perhaps the greatest gift Britain gave was uniting India against a common enemy.
- ncmncm 6y agoCourts, universities, agencies, railroads were all built using mainly local labor, as is almost always the case with occupying powers. The Romans did not build the roads, either.
- kaczordon 6y agoRight but the ideas and institutions that came from the enlightenment I think are unique, i.e. Common law is an English contribution that most democracies and former colonies benefit from.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoIndians had education and educational institutions before the colonizers arrived. And an older history of learning and texts and arts and industry and science and technology that dates centuries before Europe had any kind of ‘enlightenment’.