what would have happened?
few years back, i had received a email from my friend with the subject what would have happened if 1 ruppee was equal to 40 dollars?. The email had detailed description of how people in US and across the world would be dying to come to advanced country like India and their implications in terms of visa,climate,studies, food and other things.
I was just thinking on same lines as that email and though little more than that email. In what condition would have made india like US and US like India. I went back to days of Columbus. Columbus started of his voyage to find India and not US, it was just a co-incidence that he discovered US and people during that time felt US was indeed India for few days and they still call the Native Americans as Indians.
After this finding US, europeans started to move from europe to US and started to colonize US and there was war,trade, competation and supermacy. Eventually it was the britsh who started to control the US from england. Mean while India was also discovered and Britsh has just started the east india company. and it had started to do some trade.
Historically we know the different states in US combined together fought the british and US got their independence as early as 1774. By this time east India company in India was in its infancy and british was just about had captured bengal and mumbai and chennai regions. I feel once US got its independence, the britains had learned their lessons and strategy of handling/controlling a country from London. Queen got more cautious and obviously stared to send only those people who performed and were more loyally to London government. so british who came to india never aspired to rule the country themsleves rather than preferred to be ruled by the queen from england. I guess British people who were working India were paid properly and also had sufficent amount of control and liberty within themselves. Therefore all the lords who rulled india during those times never thought of ruling India by themselves.
Now think of a case, if columbus had discoverd India first rather than US, what would have happened. I personally feel the history would have happened on easter part of the world rather than on western part of the world. with the 20-20 hindsight. I think India would have been ruled by britsh rulers who would have fought against themselves and US which would have been discovered later, will be like India or probablly ended up differently or underdeveloped because london would have just focused on trade without giving the independence.
Independence is the key for any country to develop and prosper. If somebody has to wait for a decision from the queen will never be able to take any country to prosperity and never will think in terms of local people. He will become more self centered and thinks of himself before taking any decision.
So one can only blame the fate of India and circumstances that took place during the course of history. But on other had India was more fortunate to have British ruler in India rather than mughals. If mughals had ruled India without the interferance of British. Then India would have ended up as muslim country and would more likely ruled by different Arabic rulers and rules like burgka,taliban what Not would have been enforced. And one wrong foreign policy or war with west have ended up a brtual war and bombs being exploded every where in India. I guess even words like India/Hindu etc would have totally wiped off from the history. Just look at Egypt, do you see any native egyptians in that country. I afarid, it is NO, Egypt now is an Muslim country and i think the economy of Egypt runs only of oil and little bit of tourisim.
India should actually be thankfully to british to rule us rather than having mughals ruler to continue. No doubt one would choose lesser of the evil when you are certain that you are going to the ruled by somebody else.
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