I would suggest to you, Teribus, that you are really splitting hairs. India not colonized by the British? Subjugated, yes; culturally overwhelmed, sure; forced into organizational forms exported from the Home Office, check; educationally made into surrogates of the Victorian School System, roger that. But not colonized.

Give me a break here. We are talking about the oppressive exportation of a dominating world-view, including methodologies and beliefs and language. It doesn't matter a rat's tailbone whether we are talking about Dominions, Colonies, Crown Territories, Crown Dependencies or Protectorates, you are still looking at the overwhelm and domination of other nations and tribes and peoples, and the forced export of economic and cultural beliefs and practices.

Not that all of that was bad -- for one thing it provided a planetary commercial language. Could be a lot worse. But don't get into any of those tiresome Anglo quibbles, okay?

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