Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00096)

Whether or not the railroads were originially put in to take out raw 
materials, it is the Indian people who benefitted the most. HPB & HSO wrote 
about travelling about on elephants, or carried in a sedan chair, and how 
quaint, and bruising those modes of transportation were. The railroads were 
a much preferred mode of transportation, for everyone, even the Masters.

Perhaps it is an example of unintended consequences.

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MKR" <ramadoss@gbronline.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World "Freedom at Midnight" , and HPB and Ghandi Ji


> 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.