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- Oct 1, 2018
I would say that what happened is the gap between the west and India widened considerably after independence. Sure, British Raj was never a industrialized power house, it was primarily a agrarian society where most of the population had no electricity or running water. But so goes for large parts of Europe.Naw, I'm pretty sure that title goes to Rhodesia, all things considered.
Seriously though, it's interesting where I live as there's a fairly big Indian community, and a lot of the older people, those who originally came over here and settled, say that they wanted to leave India after the British withdrew because things became far worse. That's not to say it was "better" under the Brits, but it was worse after Independence. India is a failure all round, and that's a culmination of many factors. Partly the British occupation, but partly because of the culture of bribery, corruption, abysmal infrastructure and the caste system to name a very few.
But after the war development in even rural Europe skyrocketed, while India got a way slower development, with a culture of corruption and neglect where disasters became commonplace as infrastructure and industry began to deteriorate