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Britain's greatest mistake and its true crime against the Indian subcontinent was forging it into one nation and then walking away
Becuase The real tragedy of India wasn't British colonialism it was the decision to force so many vastly different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups into a single modern country.
People might bring up China as a counter-example, but China is over 90% Han Chinese. It's effectively a single ethnic country, despite some internal diversity.
India, on the other hand, is a fragile federation of competing identities. These people don't even speak the same language, don't share the same culture, and in many cases, don't even eat the same food. You can't call that a country it's a patchwork of distinct civilizations awkwardly stitched together and pretending to be a country
Add to that the dead weight of casteist Hindu orthodoxy a religion obsessed with ritual purity, bovine worship, and social hierarchy and you've got a recipe for stagnation, not progress
Because of these reasons, many Indians have abandoned their homeland and escaped to Western developed countries, where they contribute significantly. However, those contributions are resented by some people who envy India, which has led to the creation of the current India-hate memes.
In the end, it can be said that the root cause is forcing together people with different languages, cultures, and ethnicities into one country.
