How to industrialize?

And they never really could, as you noted above with Gandhi.

Well the really elite ones could, like Jawaharlal Nehru who went to Harrow and Cambridge, but the Nehru family were really at the pinnacle of Indian society due to Motilal Nehru's genuine and outstanding brilliance that got him an education in England in the 1870s and whose practice of lawmade him a fortune- just a rung below Indian royalty- and it was only at that level of wealth and prestige that Indians could hope to be treated like white men. Gandhi came from a more typical upper middle class background which still left him treated like a dog. Non-fabulously wealthy educated Indians were just sneered at as babus (clerks).
 
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
 
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

But South Africa never really significantly industrialised during that time period. It was still very much a resource extraction economy.
 
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.

WHich would make a policy of industrialization easier to begin and support, I would think.

And better foundations would likely be there before they even start that policy.
 
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