What would have happened to India if it wasn't colonised by Britain?

Answer 1

maybe we could send all the indians in this country back where they belong, p.s mabye we should colonise pakistan too

Answer 2

When The British colonised India, India was not an independent country. It was already a colony of the Muslims. India hadn't been an independent country since the Delhi sultanate was established in the 10th century. It wasn't until 1947 that India would end up in the custody of it's true owners - the Hindus.

The funny thing is that India celebrates an independence day from British rule, but we do not celebrate an independence day from Muslim rule. Even though The British ruled India for 90 years whereas the filthy Muslims ruled India for several centuries. Indians love criticizing the British Raj but many do not even know that life under the British was paradise in comparison with life under the Mughals. Although there were several negative aspects of the British Raj. Such as the British Mutiny (how it was crushed); the Amritsar Massacre; the exploitation and the arrogance that was demonstrated to the native Indians. What Hindus experienced under the Muslim rule was MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than what they experienced under the British rule.

The biggest genocide in the history of human civilisation was carried out against Hindus by Muslims (the killing of over one hundred million hindus). Every Mughal leader would come to power promising to wipe Hinduism from the map of India. Hindus who refused to convert were taxed, burned alive, killed etc. Muslim clerics and other Muslim religious leaders "educated" their Muslim followers to rape Hindu women, because it was believed that the destruction of Hindu progeny would denote the destruction of Hinduism. Our beautiful temples were bulldozed to the ground and were replaced with ugly dome shaped mosques. Hindu architects, scientists, poets, mathematicians etc were all required to work for the Muslims only so that the Muslims could pass off the discoveries of Hindu scientists as discoveries of Muslim scientists. Under Muslim rule, Hindus weren't even permitted to sing hymns in their temples because it apparently disturbed the Muslims.

Despite all this, just compare how Bollywood conveys the British (as evil imperial monsters) and look at how they convey the Mughals (as romantic heroes).

Although the British weren't perfect, Hindus benefited under the British in a way that they would never have under the Mughals. Under The British the Hindus were empowered. In all respectful and intellectual professions (such as civil service etc) Hindus were appointed. There was an even a time when at Oxford and Cambridge there were more Hindu students than English students. The British built good housing for Hindus and provided us with a good education and good health care. It was infact only the Muslims that were marginalized under the British. Not the Hindus.

The only reason that there is such a widely held perception that Hindus were enslaved by the British is due to the rewriting of Indian history by the Congress party, the secularists, leftists and humanists that have decided to plague India like a virus.

Anyway, in response to your question, had India not been colonised the British, the Mughals would have most definitely succeeded in replacing Hinduism with their Muslim filth. Had the British not colonised India, many Hindus would have continued to suffer at the hands of the Muslims.

Answer 3

I think its tough to answer this question.I wish we were not slaves of the English but there rule has brought some positive changes also.We learnt from them what is the meaning of administration,otherwise we were limited to the orders of so called Maharajas.We seen them using the technologies we had never heard of,and also learnt them;we saw there society,free thinking and free of many social evils we were suffering of;we adopted them slowly.Most important fact,whole India was united only to fight the English,else we were busy in domestic fighting.In a nut shell,if India was not colonised by Britain,it would have remained divided in thousands of states and provinces,Indians would have been still tangled in there old thinking and old society full of evils,it would not have became the India we know today.Indian would have not became a powerful country,but a country of thousands of poor provinces.Many would think that its my negative thinking,but i am not admiring British rule but sorting out the facts.Last but not lest,east or west INDIA IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!JAI HIND!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

Interesting question. They might have either had a communist revolution and ended up like China, a huge, federal lump with immense social problems but great vitality, OR... split up into a bunch of smaller states along tribal or religious lines, some third world basket cases, others more dynamic and successful perhaps.

And would the whole world have benefited from the wisdom of Gandhi? Probably not! He might have stayed in South Africa and concentrated his energy on fighting apartheid there. nelson mandela might never have been put in jail. the whole world, and all our heroes, would have been completely different!

Answer 5

us Indians, don't really care. History is History. We should just let things be and live in Peace.

It's only the Pakistani's that seem to worry about this. Ironic?

Answer 6

The French would have invaded instead

Answer 7

They would have never given us Chicken Korma!

Answer 8

They wouldn't be our Tea Providers.

Answer 9

They would have retained much more of their own wealth.

Answer 10

it was , but not anymore