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An Indian or Malay or African did not.
And they never really could, as you noted above with Gandhi.
An Indian or Malay or African did not.
And they never really could, as you noted above with Gandhi.
There is one real life example of relatively swift industrialisation - though not in ten years, and it happens like this:
1. Discover a very large deposit of diamonds in the hinterland'
2. Discover vast gold deposits, in the hinterland
4. Be a long way from the mother power, so local supply of goods and machinery is economically sustainable
5. Have a vast pool of cheap labour
6. keep that labour cheap
7. Support all of this with very rapid and ambitious infrastructure development
8. Forment a war or two to ensure that you control all of this wealth
South Africa, circa 1850 to 1900
The white settler colonies were for the most part effectively independent, at least insofar as their domestic affairs went, by 1900. An Australian, a Canadian or a New Zealander automatically had all the rights and privileges of a Briton. An Indian or Malay or African did not.