03-07-2006, 09:01 PM
yes, sure it was (setting on mughal empire).
mughal rule would have ended - could not last forever.
but we would not gave gotten from backward islamised countries, to a country with trains, hospitals, universities all of a sudden/overnight.
most likely some other muslim dude would have usurped power (like the slave kings of delhi killed the current king to install himself) and become shah-en-shah of a major chunk of india, or there'd be civil war between hindus and muslims or in a best case senario, we could have regrouped under a sikh-rajput-maratha combine and de-islamised india somewhat.
but we could not have modernised india from mediaval arabishness overnight.
but i'll repeat, though benifit we did from "Western civilization', ALL of that was by way of consequence and came about inadvertantly.
mughal rule would have ended - could not last forever.
but we would not gave gotten from backward islamised countries, to a country with trains, hospitals, universities all of a sudden/overnight.
most likely some other muslim dude would have usurped power (like the slave kings of delhi killed the current king to install himself) and become shah-en-shah of a major chunk of india, or there'd be civil war between hindus and muslims or in a best case senario, we could have regrouped under a sikh-rajput-maratha combine and de-islamised india somewhat.
but we could not have modernised india from mediaval arabishness overnight.
but i'll repeat, though benifit we did from "Western civilization', ALL of that was by way of consequence and came about inadvertantly.