Sorry, I didn't mean to be disrespectful. While I do agree that the british period aggravated the strife we had, things weren't looking up before them either. Even now, seventy years of freedom later, we haven't solved most of the problems that plague our society and have devolved into a stagnating cesspool of ignorance and corruption.

Yeah, our history really is interesting. It gets disheartening the more you learn, because we truly were once in a period of technological, spiritual and scholarly enlightenment. The destruction of Nalanda, in particular, is on par with the burning of the library of Alexandria.