Sometimes I wonder if anyone hates Indians more than other Indians.
Babur didn’t conquer his way in. He was invited by men who feared the ruler in Delhi more than the army at the Khyber Pass.
The East India Company was bankrolled by Indian merchants, staffed with Indian soldiers, and enabled by Indian rulers to fight each other.
By 1946, Congress and the Muslim League were so consumed with defeating each other that they let a visiting Englishman who’d never set foot in India draw the borders in five weeks.
The same short-term calculation, every single time. The same long-term catastrophe.