What if India was never Colonised by the British
How India would have looked today if the British had not Colonised it India was a group of kingdoms and empires ruled by rulers of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths. The British East India Company, slowly and steadily interfered in local politics, gained influence, and gradually took over regions and completed India’s colonisation. India gained her independence in 1947 and emerged as a modern democracy. Now the whole narrative is drawn that India being a unified modern nation with democracy is a product of British colonisation, and without the British, India still would have stuck as a group of socially backward kingdoms. But history does not work that way. British Indian Empire (1909) Assumptions Let us first identify things in India attributed to the British – a modern educated population, democratic setup, religion and caste equality, railways and other important infrastructure, and modern military force. To understand the reality of this, we need to understand the political s