You haven't understood my post at all. 1) I do not think that the British colonising India was a good thing. Indeed I even went to the trouble of using the neg

You haven't understood my post at all. 1) I do not think that the British colonising India was a good thing. Indeed I even went to the trouble of using the negative word 'subjugate', instead of the neutral word 'colonise' to get the point across. 2) I certainly don't think it was a good thing for India, and I never said anything at all to suggest that I did think it was a good thing. 3) I don't have a problem with taxes. I have a problem with rich people taxing poor people and then hoarding the money. My entire post was about this. I didn't criticise the British for taxing their people, because those taxes were then re-invested to the benefit of the people. India chose not to do that, and I would argue that this is the sine qua non of a weak culture.