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Re:What Beirut was like before the war (2019) by VictorPath on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:35AM (#32517575)
> Here in India, British barely spent money on education, or industrialising the country.

It's beyond even that. The English spent the nineteenth century deindustrializing India - textiles, steel etc.

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Re:What Beirut was like before the war (2019) by leaflets2 on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:13PM (#32525957)
What did the 19th century Englishmen do more precisely? (You wrote "textiles, steel" as clarification but that's too brief for me :-))
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