Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00051)

At 10:37 PM 08/10/05 +0000, netemara888 wrote:
> Are you saying the railroad was the key for Britain to take raw
> materials out of India for their use? It is not clear.
Yes.

> I think that would have happened regardless to Independence because
> other islands and nations that have been colonialized and freed or
> not freed did not fare nearly as well as India. In fact most went
> down the tubes precipitiously, take Cuba and Haiti for example
> (although Cuba was not colonized per se). I think India would have
> prospered regardless. And when they began to prosper they would
> have sought Independence later if not sooner.
The infra structure of India is quite different than that of Cuba or Haiti.

> I agree India is and will become an Asian power of the future. I've
> been there twice and I have studied their education, and value of
> same. It did not hurt that many Indians have an upper-class British
> education.
My observations are based on several decades of first hand experience of 
living in India. Anyone will vouch for the fact that the rapidity of 
progress is phenomenal only after Independence.

mkr


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