By Devindra Sethi
Former U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower once famously said: “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” An interesting question today is how those words might apply to India.
India was left destitute in 1947 after achieving independence – more than 80 percent of the population was illiterate, and its people were left hungry with so much food having been exported out of the country to meet the requirements of the British Empire. India’s industrial base was nonexistent and its pitiable administration was only geared to collecting taxes to feed the gargantuan appetites of the so-called Raj. A study by Cambridge University several years ago suggested that trillions in current dollar terms had been transferred from India by the British during 250 years of misrule.
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