Comments by "suraj s" (@surajs5913) on "Asianometry"
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@jkuang i will explain to you the reasoning of the Indian mind, then you may decide if it is the colonial outlook or not.
India is very much jeleous of what china has acheived in terms of rapid economic growth. Jealousy is possible only if you admire a person. But the fact ia that India has been trying and failing at becoming a major manufacturing hub due to the better organised economies of SE Asia and China. The trade deficit with China and repeated articles in Global Times mocking India however does not increase India's friendship.
As for the british, they are losing their relevance, but a lot more has to be done in terms of education before Indians realise the cost of colonialism, not in terms of wealth looted but in terms of social institutions destroyed, the degree to which the native cultures were distorted, etc. The sense of injustice and desire for revenge however is greatly dampened from what is expected from a group of people, when one analyses the entirety of Indian History. The british did not start the above mentioned process, merely accelerated it after islamic conquests had already warped India in a similar manner. That is why India considers pakistan as a mortal enemy (and by extension any country that supports pakistan). Imagine if mongolia was still strong and frequently boasted of subduing the weak chinese. How would China feel about India if India used Mongolia to hamper chinese progress? These are the geopolitical narratives that dominate south asia. So the obsession with china is directly related to pakistan, especially since the 4 wars and sustained conflict with pakistan has been seen by the present generation. The fact that there are still "maoist" insurgencies operating in the dense forests of central India, in a region called the "red belt" does not increase Indian affection towards china either, even though the CCP allegedly stopped funding these insurgency groups some time ago.
None of this however dampens the attitude of India to the West however western colonisation was due to their advanced weapons technology and disunity among Indian princely states. Both these have resulted in the modern progressing Indian state to be ultra nationalistic and focus heavily on defence, including the creation of nuclear bombs. But I have to acknowledge here that a certain section of Indian political class (the Indian National Congress) who ruled the central administration till 1994 were very much jeleous towards the west and essentially aping the west instead of rebuilding Indian civilisation. That is the major schism in Indian political thought that is happening in the past 7 years after the hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (which means Bharat(what Indians call India) People's Party) have cemented power at the central level.
The british however face no love from India, even though there is no sustained animosity either. China faces less animosity from Indians who actually know history, because even if China invented gunpowder, it was not chinese guns that colonised India. That is the reason why "reverse colonisation" of britain is taking place, why Indian MNCs are so eager to buy and control British MNC's etc. Such tendencies are influenced by history, and it remains to be seen how far India will try to dominate britain as India progresses.
I know why the chinese attitude to India is how it is. Holding independent India accountable for aiding the "white ape" to enforce its colonial dominance or facilitate the opium trade will not increase any love between India and China. Claiming that the "brown ape" is still a slave with no aspirations and tied down by ancient outdated ideologies and religions will not help foster friendship either. The only way forward for a India China friendship is mutual understanding and adjusting with each other. But china is not so keen to pursue this policy of give and take with India whose economy is one fifth of china. Perhaps in a few decades, any such option could be revisited. As an Indian who knows history, i would rather have a Chinse civilisational state as an ally of India (and i also hope India moves beyond outdated western paradigms of state organisation and reorganises itself into a civilisational state in the coming decades) than any western country. But this is the geopolitical reality of this moment and this decade.
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