Did crown rule benefit India ?

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I have heard people say that Britishers were the one who made India. How true is this claim?


*I have nothing against the present Britain or British people because most of the horrors happened when none of the present Brits were born. 3 generations have come since the time of Indian independence. I know that most of the present day Britishers are sympathetic to India's struggle.*

Everyone today knows about **Charles Dickens**, the greatest Victorian era English novelist. His works include ‘Oliver Twist’, ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, ‘David Copperfield’, ‘Great Expectations’ etc. However ignored in the celebrations will be the reality that Charles Dickens, like many of his British contemporaries, was a genocidal racist. 
“I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth.”

Celebrated Britishers like this guy openly gave such statements. So, how could you expect any help from them ? All the advantages of the colonial rule like civil services exam, railways, etc. that some people state were started just for administrative convenience of the colony so that they could solidify their administration and drain India’s wealth from the mainland to the ports. The country which once contributed 26% of wold GDP contributed a mere 2% after their departure.

The countrymen who once used to be proud of their culture and heritage were made to accept the racial supremacy of their western counterparts. Even today this inferiority complex exists among many Indians.

Britain pulled India's men into wars that had nothing to do with India. Over 1.3 million men served in the World War I and over 2 million served in World War II (with over 87000 men died in it).
(Read India in world wars )

Finally people who say that India would never come into picture if there was no British rule must know that when British left India, India still had 500+ states and the present day India came into picture because of the ‘**Iron man of India**’.

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