Life expectancy went up, crime dropped, education was set up, even though literacy was at 16% when India was granted it independence. The British felt like they were doing something important, and useful, but a 16% literacy rate isn't very impressive, especially when you’ve just killed 59 million people, appropriated their resources, and taxed them of what they had left. While a decrease in crime, and an increase in life average is a generally good thing, It’s just not enough to counteract the bad things that the British did to the Indians. An empire can’t pride themselves over teaching a country how to read a foreign language while expunging their own, if at the same time they are causing a massive famine, and taking everything from everyone indigenous to that
Life expectancy went up, crime dropped, education was set up, even though literacy was at 16% when India was granted it independence. The British felt like they were doing something important, and useful, but a 16% literacy rate isn't very impressive, especially when you’ve just killed 59 million people, appropriated their resources, and taxed them of what they had left. While a decrease in crime, and an increase in life average is a generally good thing, It’s just not enough to counteract the bad things that the British did to the Indians. An empire can’t pride themselves over teaching a country how to read a foreign language while expunging their own, if at the same time they are causing a massive famine, and taking everything from everyone indigenous to that