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You can't know what India would be like if British rule continued to this day. Any comparison is effectively meaningless. The parent comment was arguing against
by n4r9 3y ago
You can't know what India would be like if British rule continued to this day. Any comparison is effectively meaningless. The parent comment was arguing against nostalgia for the British Raj, and it's no less justifiable.
- inglor_cz 3y ago"You can't know" You can't, but you can at least compare and guess. There are still some colonies extant (e.g. Falklands, Gibraltar, French Guinea, New Caledonia), and when it comes to big stuff like death penalty, they all followed the metropolis. Even former British dominions (Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) abolished the death penalty on a fairly similar schedule.
- shash 3y agoThe scale of those colonies is kind of absurd when compared to any even moderately larger territory, leave alone the entirety of India!
- n4r9 3y agoYou're so focused on capital punishment as an indicator of social health that you're missing the original point, which is that life was awful for many Indians under the British Raj.