@histmere: The claim that Britain “stole” $45 trillion from India is not history. It is propaganda. It takes ordinary trade, pretends every surplus was theft, then multiplies the number with artificial compound interest across two centuries. No serious historian accepts it. The figure exists to smear Britain, not to explain the past. The truth is the opposite of the accusation. Britain took a fragmented subcontinent of warring states, endless raiding and outdated systems and forged it into a single political and economic unit. It built the largest railway network in Asia. It created vast irrigation systems, modern ports and the telegraph. It imposed a common law, a professional civil service and universities that still stand today. It made English the link language of a continent. It brought modern medicine and began the long rise in life expectancy. Britain ended sati. It crushed thuggee. It stopped the constant internal wars that had drained India for generations. For the first time in centuries the entire subcontinent was held together under one administration and one set of rules. India did not emerge poorer because of Britain. It emerged with the infrastructure, the institutions and the legal framework that made a modern nation possible. The railways, the ports, the courts, the civil service and the universities were not accidents. They were deliberate British creations. The “stolen trillions” story is a political weapon. The real record is one of transformation. Britain did not loot India. Britain built the foundations on which modern India still stands.

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Sunday 26 July 2026 05:52:30 GMT