'But what about the railways ...?' The myth of Britain's gifts to India | W... - 0 views
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the British took what they could for 200 years, but didn’t they also leave behind a great deal of lasting benefit?
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Indeed, the British like to point out that the very idea of “India” as one entity (now three, but one during the British Raj), instead of multiple warring principalities and statelets, is the incontestable contribution of British imperial rule.
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The idea of India is as old as the Vedas, the earliest Hindu scriptures, which describe “Bharatvarsha” as the land between the Himalayas and the seas.
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