Despite colonial rule being so bad, how did so many Indians get rich in that time? The answer is that colonialism wasn't the same experience for every community in India.
In the fourth of episode of Past Continuous, we talk about the incredible inequality of colonial India and how that inequality continues till today.
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Music: Quasi Motion by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. incompetech.com/
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