Nobody can keep a country united unless people identify themselves with it.
Well we have contrary to that. The
British managed for
200 years ...
* Let us see if the present Brown Sahibs having managed 70 years can clock 200 years that is in another 130 years? Our great, great, grandchildren can witness that. Until then let us relax and not blow our trumpets like foools .....
and from previous post below
Size,
extremely fractured along
horizontal and
vertical lines or diversity. A proclivity on part of the
major part of the population to
sheepishly accept overlordship.
These
factors were used to keep the same population "
united" by the British for nearly
200 years. Prior to that the
same factors were used by Moghuls to keep the same population
"united". So there is a
history and
phenomenon behind this going
400 years back that was exploited by foreign invaders to keep such
huge mass of population
"united" under
one rule.
As one colonial British official observed"
There is so few of us ruling so many that if the Indian's all agreed to spit at one moment we ( British ) would be flushed into the sea".
In the last 70 years ruling India has gotten easy as the diversity that the British had to put up with is less. The rulers are now Indian, the two main groups who historically could pose threat are Sikhs and Marattas but after some problems both have been co opted by the ruling class.
Also the ruling class has been successful in creating a mythical "Indian" history and identity. So given history thee is nothing remarkable about 70 years being "united".
I suspect I man going read lots of fancy and elaborate reasons but like I said even the
foreign invaders like British managed to
clock 200 years.
There should have been far up
antagonism against foreign
imposed "unity" but despite that it lasted over two centuries.
If they could do that it should be a doddle for
indigenous rulers or "brown sahibs".
and
Some facts here guys. The ICS or the Indian Civil Service had about
1,000 English running all of India and that would include Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma ( Myanmar ) including enclaves in Yeman etc. Please refer to map below.
The only part of Raj that gave the British any real problems was the very
same area giving
Pakistan today the problems - the
FATA.
Federally Administered Tribal Areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British Indian Army and the component made of British would have been even smaller had that not been the case.
All we have had since 1947 is in both India and Pakistan "brown sahibs" taking the very seats occupied by "
white sahibs" running both countries using
exactly the
same structures like Pakistan using
British era Frontier or Punjab regiments to stabilze FATA
exactly like the British were doing before 1947.
In India the same seats occupied by
"brown sahibs" are using the
same institutions including
British era Sikh regiments to run the country. The only novelty is the "
brown sahib" and something called "
democracy".
For the sake of brevity
"if 1,000 English could unite India" what is the big deal here if "
brown sahib's just continue it"?
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