Quote Originally Posted by Reenk Roink
My point again... This is almost too good to be true.

This is exactly why so many Indians and Pakistanis remember their rule under the British as the glory days right?

Oh, and though the sectarian groups may have wanted to be separate from each othe, I do know that the British were also quite keen in causing division between the two groups for awhile. I also know that Britain (rightfully so) gets some blame for rushing through the partition and causing that land dispute that has had a couple of wars fought over it...

I'm also sure that the British were nice enough to not exploit their colonies for the wealth and resources they had. After all the purpose of colonies is to spread the English language and help the natives setup nice judicial systems...

Still omitting China...
The people in the subcontinent wanted self rule - that's nationalism for you. It can hardly be denied that Hong Kong fared better under British rule than at any other time in its history, but did you know many of its people also wanted self-rule, and disparaged the Opium Wars that made it British?

FWIW, the Indians appreciated the British infrastructure enough to follow the Westminster version of parliamentary democracry, retain English as its language of government and retain British military and naval traditions. Ie. the skeleton of the Indian state was, and in many areas still is, British.