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1.8 Billion makes sense. India today on average loses 10 million people per year due to natural cause or illness. So in 200 years they would lose 10million x 200 years = 2 billion people. Imagine 1757 - 1947 times when India didn't have any healthcare like today and life expectancy was much much shorter with mass malnourish (Bengal Famine + 63 other major famines) and were forced to work to their very bones losing their lives in the process.
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In India's history, there's a pattern of not actively resisting invaders; rather, they departed, like the British and others, when there were no more resources to exploit, leaving behind a population of a billion Indians struggling with poverty and lacking in education, a situation no one wished to confront.
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India didn't actively repel invaders; instead, various conquerors, including the British, eventually withdrew when there was little more to gain, leaving behind a billion impoverished Indians without access to education or literacy—a situation nobody wanted to address.
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The 45 trillion dollars that were taken mainly consist of natural resources. If you look at India's current mineral deposits, most are completely depleted (that's why India imports their minerals instead of producing them themselves; they have nothing left). The British forced Indians to mine and carry those minerals and resources to the sea port so they could be sent back to England every single day for 200 years. The U.S. and U.K. infrastructure was pretty much built from not only India's natural minerals but also India's blood, sweat, and even lives (countless Indians died working in the mines all day with less than a portion of grain in their stomachs).
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The British also made Indians work in agricultural and then transport all the crops to the UK. they would rather have food rot in the UK than preventing the tens of millions that starved to death.
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Items such as coal, iron ore, timber, cotton, and other natural resources are brought to the ports every day for the British to ship home to use in their factories. Coal and iron ore can produce steel, which, along with wood, can be used to build houses, large buildings, halls, subways, trains, and factories. Iron ore can be used to build cars, machinery, weapons, ships, and jets. Both the U.K. and U.S. 1st and 2nd industrial revolutions were built with India's funds and India's free labour.
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