India has a hole where its middle class should be

Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by sumedh on Saturday January 13, 2018 @07:30PM (#16142218)

70 years after independence and you are still blaming the british.

When will this finger pointing stop?

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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by ravivooda on Saturday January 13, 2018 @09:57PM (#16142588)

I wonder, if you will agree, the rich always have an advantage compared to the poor. In terms of education, better life etc. So I can see why we blame British; the parts where they were most effective are factually poor when compared to the other side.

Not in any way mean that we should blame them even after 70 years.

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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by sumedh on Saturday January 13, 2018 @10:09PM (#16142633)

> So I can see why we blame British

We blame Britain because it's easier to have scapegoats, it's much harder to acknowledge failure and actually fix the problems.

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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by RandomCSGeek on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:38AM (#16144662)

I am not blaming British. It's just a fact that the places they ruled strongest are generally poorer compared to those places where they didn't.

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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by sumedh on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:11PM (#16147102)

Yes you are blaming the British. By the way have you heard correlation does not imply causation?

First of all your original comment is factually wrong. Bombay and Pune were British controlled so your theory is wrong that non British controlled areas are doing better.

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