What Did Colonization Do to India?

The british were, to a large extent, responsible for creating a version of india that we continue to inhabit largely. And so as you mentioned, monosmithy and the cast system, they found, in a certain version of caste hinduism, very fertile ground for their repression. So what they were able to do is cater to our worst instincts because that's what served their best interests. They said to us, you know, people are different from one another. You have to rigidly maintain that difference. That policy, which is now called by everybody the policy of divide and rule, was exactly what they did in relation to india. Instead of saying, oh