When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

Prem Kishore
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When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism. This is an old joke in the Indian army about how India is still poor after sustaining so much hardship throughout centuries of British rule. The British themselves are portrayed as monsters in the Indian army.

Source: India: An Illustrated History

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