>>The British Rule had some unintended consequences.
>
> Maybe a few more years/decades/centuries. Might have depended on how many
> Indians went abroad, embraced liberalism in The West, then brought the
ideas
> back home (and/or asked for help from their sponsoring countries to push
the
> idea). Didn't the same sort of pattern happen in Turkey, to bring more
> modern ideas and ideals into a still feudal country around the turn of the
> century?
Yes, India could have followed the pattern in Turkey. Or India could have reproduced the Afghan pattern on a larger scale !
Ulhas