30 million?

india would be better if they had their own meiji restroation rtaher than actually ebing colonized

the fuck, didn't know it was that much

yea thats the numebr that ive heard

ive also heard 10 millkion

it;s between those two numebrs

christ.
was it a good railroad at least?

prolly

i dunno, british rule in india and decolonisation especially just seemed really badly planned.
There doesn't seem to have been malice so much as greed and incompetence.

the europena treatment of africa was much better

well heres y it fucked up

they made their own controlled opposition

gandhi and the indian national congress were all british puppets

a face-saving measure

how did they win so much then?

the sepoys were ready to revolt any time

and the brits needed india for the seconf world war

crown of the empire 😉

*Crown jewel

india was conquered cuz it was essnetially like eirope

a hundred fractured kingdoms

pitted agaisnt each other

yes, the british bought of folk and backed rebellions and made deals till they had control through a series of vassal lords that were already established and company rule.

with 17th century guns

yea

the princely states

cucks all of them

I don't india could have gone through a meiji restoration tbh

well it was ont he path towards it

some of the bigger clans, and the sikh empire in the nrothwest were industrializing and m odernizing their armies

japan was left alone because it was difficult to reach, geographically unimportant and had no major natural resources.
India was easy to reach for europe, geographically essential for asian trade and had a fuck tonne of resources, Europe wasn't gonna let india unify under native rule.

the sikhs couldve beaten the bongs in the first anglo-sikh war had the bongs not bribed their genrals

the british feared that the siksh would invade the part of india thatw as ruled by ol john comapny

and that the sepoys would revolt and join the sikhs

leading to sikh dominion in norht india

and prolly south too

they cut the head off the snake

by bribing the commanders

who were loyal tot he sikh queen

the queen wa sin a power struggle with the khalsa

the queen signed a pact with the bongs in orde rto secure her throne