Did the british give india far more positive pr than indians themselves? Reading old british stories like gunga din and jungle book it seems that indians were seen with a noble savage lens, as primitive but good people at heart. The 21st century destroyed the latter part of this image
>>519850806>Did the british give india far more positive pr
Every land the white people touched they created a romanticism for, whether it was China or India, Egypt and watever else. Greece is the ultimate romanticist state, it's the culmination of this exact impulse
>>519851183A delusion was required to not fact the fact that killing them all is necessary. Pretty weak
>>519851466Frankly if you treated the Indians the way you treated the other Indians, I dunno what the subcontinent would be like today, would it be better off with like fifty million anglos from pakistan to burma?
>>519851673yeah, it would be like australia but more humid basically a nature reserve with a bit of tourism and resource extraction
>>519850806Those were from before the British completed their campaign of looting and dismantling India's institutions, industry, and economy.