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countries had better armaments and ammunition — they had
guns and we had swords. Not only India, rather the whole world
was conquered and colonised by them. They had no better
civilization but by sheer force of guns the British conquered
and ruled the country for more than 200 years. The country
went through massive degradation from cultural, political and
economical sense during the British rule that has no parallel
in our long history. The richest nation became a nation of the
poor people by the time British left.
The nineteenth century India was under British rule. The
darkness was rampant. Child marriage was the order of the day,
giving rise to the children who were physically and mentally
weaker. Small age widows were in large numbers and the
religious priests would not permit their remarriage, causing
tremendous agonies to the widows, including torture of sexual
exploitation. The moral fabric was torn apart. The education
as such was missing and more so for the girls. If the mothers
are uneducated then how could the child's first teacher, namely
the mother, could educate her child? This led to a vicious
degradation in the society. Under the foreign rule the population
generally lacked self-esteem and self-confidence. Cunning that
the British were, they divided the country in the name of caste,
language, religion and what not merely to perpetrate their
occupation and exploitation of India's rich wealth.
Except for the military advantage that the Europeans had due
to the outcome of the industrial revolution they didn't possess
any grand human characteristics. Indeed Europe was in the
midst of its own darkness when petty wars and one-upmanship
among the European nations were the order of the day. Women
were greatly oppressed. Only in the twentieth century they
succumbed to the pressure and began to grant voting rights to
their women. The Europeans believed that the women were void
of an individual conscious soul and they were born out of an
insignificant rib of the man's body. The religious heads
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