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re: Why did India not have the rich and successful history of other countries in the region?
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:13 am to UFFan
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:13 am to UFFan
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It's just failed to develop like other countries have in relatively recent history. It's not that India has really regressed, but rather that the whole world was extremely poor for almost all of human history, and India hasn't gotten out of poverty even as other countries have
Rapidly developing. Was largely socialist and state controlled economy for most of the 20th century after independence.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:14 am to theliontamer
Like others have said, it’s the caste system. There’s no incentive to better you or you family’s life. The system won’t let you. So you’re relegated to making bricks out of shite.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:17 am to LSUBFA83
Relatively speaking (relatively speaking being the key word here), India was one of the richest countries in the world for most of its history. Why do you think Columbus was trying to get to India, which he viewed as some kind of magical land?
However, the whole world in those days was extremely poor by today's standards.
However, the whole world in those days was extremely poor by today's standards.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:17 am to yaboidarrell
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South India is supposedly much better
Yeah, but the rivers flow from the north to the south. So its increasingly shittier the further south you go
This post was edited on 9/17/26 at 10:17 am
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:20 am to Tiger Prawn
that's not really true. the southern rivers flow west-east not north-south
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:27 am to theliontamer
India was invaded by the Islamic Mughals starting in the 1500s, and they ruled into the 20th century.
The last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad, who was a Mughal descendent, was in power up to Indian unification after WWII. The new Indian government kept him on a stipend for a while after that.
Side note: He was on the cover of Time magazine in the 1930s as the richest man in the world.
The last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad, who was a Mughal descendent, was in power up to Indian unification after WWII. The new Indian government kept him on a stipend for a while after that.
Side note: He was on the cover of Time magazine in the 1930s as the richest man in the world.
This post was edited on 9/17/26 at 10:31 am
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:34 am to UptownJoeBrown
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Like others have said, it’s the caste system. There’s no incentive to better you or you family’s life. The system won’t let you. So you’re relegated to making bricks out of shite.
It's also why India is full of trash. People just toss their trash on the ground or throw it out a window because it's a lower caste's job to clean it up for you. That goes for every caste so Brahmins then it's the job of every other caste. For Kshatriyas it's the lower 3 groups job but not the Brahmins, etc...
Horribly backwards culture.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:38 am to MFn GIMP
Alexander the Great conquered the whole world until he made it down to India and died a few days later of diarrhea
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:41 am to theliontamer
Empires like Mongolia or the Arab Caliphates expanded heavily through aggressive military conquest and external territorial control. India's immense wealth was largely self-sustaining due to its internal agricultural productivity and massive domestic market, meaning it didn't need to project aggressive military dominance outward to enrich itself.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:46 am to theliontamer
They are incapable of moving on from the caste system. Hell, they brought that shite over here, which is why people are viewing them more critically lately. Especially when it comes to H1B sponsorship.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:50 am to CarRamrod
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they poop in the rivers then bath in it.
Don’t they also throw their dead in the river as well?
ETA: downvote it all you want, but if you look it up, you’ll discover that it’s quite common in India for dead people to be thrown in the river.
Deal with it.
This post was edited on 9/17/26 at 10:58 am
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:58 am to theliontamer
Much higher i.q.'s in the surrounding countries that you named.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:00 am to RoyalAir
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the caste system
Several of the ones that made their way here still try to impose that on Western culture.
One obviously despised American blacks but it wasn’t racial as she didn’t have any issues with African blacks.
Nearest we could figure was she placed them at the bottom because they were “descended from slaves.”
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:25 am to Volvagia
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Several of the ones that made their way here still try to impose that on Western culture.
This was also one of Gandhi's chief complaints with British rule. Despite being a hierarchical society themselves, they had no tolerance for the caste system and worked to abolish it. Gandhi was vehemently opposed to its opposition.
Anglo-Americans DGAF about this here. It doesn't carry water.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:41 am to Marlboro Smooth
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The East India Company was by far the largest economy in the world from the 1500s to the 1700s
FIFY
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:50 am to theliontamer
Because all the smart ones moved to Texas.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 1:15 pm to Celery
Yes, they are good little cubicle workers in Texas, that will work tedious technical jobs for a lower rate just to fill out dsld neighborhoods and sniff the American dream.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 1:22 pm to lsu777
quote:Go to r/h1b on Reddit. Funniest shite ever. They think they're God's gift to this country and can't understand why the Trump administration is clamping down on visas, and H1b entries. Some seem suicidal or completely broken, resigning themselves to having to go back. I enjoy telling them that if they're so fricking great, go home! Make your own country great since you seem to believe you're the answer to all the issues here. Be the answer THERE!
when you look at the country as a whole, its almost certain the intelligence of nations study that found it to be 76.4 is much closer to the real number
Posted on 9/17/26 at 1:27 pm to theliontamer
India isn't in the region that you just described. The Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia are distinct regions.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 1:30 pm to HubbaBubba
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Go to r/h1b on Reddit. Funniest shite ever. They think they're God's gift to this country and can't understand why the Trump administration is clamping down on visas, and H1b entries. Some seem suicidal or completely broken, resigning themselves to having to go back. I enjoy telling them that if they're so fricking great, go home! Make your own country great since you seem to believe you're the answer to all the issues here. Be the answer THERE!
haha yea i go on there and just laugh
anyone that has worked with them will tell you....there so called superiority is a complete lie.
I still do not understand how those on temporary visas were able to get mortgages though. crazy to me
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