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Memoirs of a British civil servant never published until now show how much the partition of India was decided by just two men

Link.

Yeah too bad about Kashmir, eh? You would think the British could have set up a government where Hindus and Moslems could share a nation.

Of course, the Moslem propensity for demographic war would have spelled eventual disaster for the Hindus. So despite what the BBC says, it's probably just as well the Moslems got their own territory. The lesser of two evils, as it were.

There has to be a better way.

I don't understand what you mean by "There has to be a better way". Humans are competitive and selfish. We have been struggling against ourselves for as long as we have been a species.

The real cause of your dissatisfaction is that you apply English empire-building expectations to third world people. It should be adequate to let them be what they are, but more "civilized people have been messing around with backward nations for so long we assume it is our right to do so. Of course, they have our resources, so they are just a troublesome obstacle to exploitation of those resources. Unless they are willing to work, in which case we can make them into our willing slaves with a promise of consumer products.

I meant, a better way than the British Empire.