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"Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Lo..." — Linda Colley
Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently.
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