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India? India was part of the UK at the time. Also, India got both carrier raids and land invasion from Japan.
by AnimalMuppet 3y ago
India? India was part of the UK at the time. Also, India got both carrier raids and land invasion from Japan.
- alephnerd 3y agoThe land invasion was only in Northeast India (Manipur and Nagaland specifically) - which isn't industrialized to this day either. During WW2, British India's primary industrial hubs were Bengal (Calcutta, Dhaka), Bombay Presidency (Bombay), Punjab (Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Lahore, Delhi outskirts), Sindh (Karachi), Hyderabad Sultanate (Hyderabad), and portions of UP (Kanpur, Lucknow). Also, British India had de facto autonomy during WW2. WW2 did help India industrialize, but British India was starting from such a relatively low base that it was basically playing catch up. I'd recommend reading India's War by Srinath Raghavan to get an economic history of India during the interwar and WW2 period.
- gumby 3y agoIndia was most definitely never “part of the UK”! Not even the Channel Islands, Man, etc are.