kira123123

Playing instruments do not pay the bills and are ultimately useless. (Unless you are in the top 1 percent that make it.)

There is a lot more to it than that. If we can stop caucasian-washing history for a second, britain did not simply arrive in india, and leave peacefully either. They lied about their motive as a trade company (the east india company). They used religion (Christianity) To scout the local population and worked with priests/nuns to see if the land as able to be invaded. And when they left they split the country into two, not really considering the implications of dividing a country in half based on their whims. (spoiler alert it caused a massive civil war and had a major historical figure killed). Trusting Britain, and not inventing the machine gun was the biggest mistake India could have done.

Britain literally employed slave labour on the local population, implemented a class based system which destroyed the local population, and murdered anyone who tried to rise up against their tyranny. Sad our history books conveniently ignore the evils of the empire's and the destructive effects of colonization we feel to this day.

During Britain's colonization period of india other channels of foreign trade with India like the French, the Dutch, the Portuguese and the Americans were driven out by vicissitudes of war. Solely the British now controlled the Indian trade with rest of the world.

You can imagine what happens when a foreign invader like Britain can do when they control a soil-rich country such as India.

Britain changed local laws and allowed the new Capital holders’ to own land in India. The British bought lands for plantations, which were manned by Indian slave labour. Thus even the agricultural export profits benefited only the British plantation owners, and not the starving labourers.

Britain resold Indian produced goods onto the global market for massive profits.

Indians were put into debt by the British during their rule and while they had the engineers to build their own cheaper alternative railways, they were forced to import British railroads and had to pay for it, as their exports were funneled from their home country to various parts of britain to be exported.

There is a lot more i could go into on this topic, but this isn't some sort of "woke police", this is pretty established history. Britain did invade India, this was a thing that happened, it was pretty horrible, sad we don't teach our children about the horrors of colonization.

http://www.srimatham.com/uploads/5/5/4/9/5549439/how_the_bri...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jGPf764d0&ab_channel=VICE

https://qz.com/india/290497/the-forgotten-story-of-indias-co...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2756302

i thought of it as a reference to "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." attributed to Gandhi but is disputed.

Really poor argument, "oh biased source". Invading a country and colonizing their people. Can really destroy a local population. Ask Native Americans. Ask Kenyans. Ask the Phillipines. Britiain truly commited some upseakable horrors to the countries they invaded, and really push their idea of caucasian supremacy. Deny the truth all you want, the unmarked graves of native american children remain. The evil of the british empire is something we should condemn, but we conveniently ignore.

Yes, I don't think you quite understand the horrors of Britain ruining india during their 100 year invasion. Similar to the destruction of the native american population of Canada and America. As well as the treatment of Kenyans during their rule.

This is not " Just as shark migration patterns were not changed by slavery. " This is a European country travelling halfway across the world and murdering a indepdant nation. Stealing their exports, and reselling it on the global market. Using their land to produce opium where they later used to invade china and kill their local population.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade

You can deny it all you want, but the history will remain.

There's the 3 million that have died due to the bengal famine.

https://newint.org/features/2021/12/07/feature-how-british-c....

The destruction of India's economy under british colonization, causing massive poverty.

http://www.srimatham.com/uploads/5/5/4/9/5549439/how_the_bri...

Various Massacres (That we have heard about, from british soldiers when the local population tried to rise up)

https://www.britannica.com/event/Jallianwala-Bagh-Massacre