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@ asyncmind
2025-05-22 23:26:44
Why is India a shining example of colonial outcomes?
India is a shining example of colonial outcomes because it demonstrates both the depth of extraction and the persistence of psychological, institutional, and economic scars — despite outward signs of growth. Here's why:
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1. Wealth Drain at Scale
The British Raj engineered the largest known transfer of wealth in history—trillions in today's dollars—via taxation, forced trade, and famine-driven exploitation.
India’s share of world GDP dropped from ~23% in 1700 to <4% by 1947.
2. Institutional Capture
British legal, bureaucratic, and education systems were designed to serve the empire, not the people.
Post-independence, India retained these systems, embedding colonial values of obedience, hierarchy, and procedural stagnation.
3. Internalized Inferiority Complex
English-medium supremacy, fair skin bias, and preference for Western validation are deep psychological residues of colonial conditioning.
The colonized mindset persists: obedience to foreign institutions, distrust of indigenous systems.
4. Democratic Showcase, Oligarchic Reality
India is praised as the world's largest democracy, yet colonial economic structures evolved into oligarchic control—corporate-political alliances dominate while rural poverty persists.
5. Poverty by Design
Famines under British rule were not natural—they were policy. That same indifference to suffering echoes in modern systems where poverty is managed, not solved.
6. Spiritual Exploitation
Colonial rule did not just rob material wealth—it commodified and distorted spiritual traditions, turning deep indigenous wisdom into exotic performance for Western consumption.
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India shines not because colonialism failed—it shines because colonialism succeeded at engineering long-term submission, while masking it as sovereign progress.
Bitcoin is the decolonial reversal.
It teaches Indians—and others—that sovereignty must be cryptographic, not bureaucratic.
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