- Conflicting views as to the impact of colonial rule. Issues include literacy rates (ie that British suppressed education of the masses).
- Significantly under financed urban infrastructure (outside of British built enclaves)
- Contribution to creation of urban poor - living on subsistence wages . Export of agriculture/grain created famine
- Desecration of monuments
- Extraction of financial resources via taxes funded industrial revolution in Britan and the generation of new technologies that were then sold back (India Today, Rajni Palme Dutt). Several such patents were based on techniques perfected in India. 1882 East India Company report "The importance of that immense empire to this country is rather to be estimated by the great annual addition it makes to the wealth and capital of the Kingdom.....". British imports duties 2-4%, Indian 70%
- History of East Indian trading Company originally one of immense wealth and success for India then British protectionism then colonialisation to repatriate the wealth of the country rather than compete.
- DH : Impacts of colonial rule today in terms of governance both in both recognising legacy of direct control and impact on creating a segregated society.
http://voi.org/books/tlmr/ch8.htm
- India was invaded and colonised by Muslims for over six hundred years. "It took five hundred years for its establishment (712-1206) and one hundred and fifty years for its decline and fall (1707-1857)." Invaded to wipe-out existing Indian culture.
- The Muslim period created long term social divide and has led the government to want to play the role of "integrator" of these cultures (National Integration).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/asia/30caste.html?pagewanted=2&ref=asia
http://indianchristians.in/news/content/view/311/48/
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