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> Its poverty post independence mostly came from having a huge influx of people from the, frankly, messy split that it simply could not deal with. It also didn't help that West Pakistan absorbed all the funding leaving very little for East Pakistan/Bangladesh.
India was not poor as a result of the independence campaign or by becoming independent. India was stagnating throughout colonial rule. Not a blip or anything, just consistent stagnation. In less than 3 years after independence annual growth in output went from less than 1% to more then 3%, with growth per capita increasingly significantly. This doesn't really fit in with your claim.
> It was inevitable that India's cottage industry was going to collapse.
What 'cottage industry'?
India had a huge financial surplus. It traded with Portugal, Netherlands, the UK and so on. It accounted for a disproportionate amount of world output. It wasn't some economic backwater.
> Ironically, had Britain been more iron fisted in India at the time, the famine would most likely have not happened.
So one famine might have been prevented? This book will tell you that India had more frequent famines under British rule than before, and as I said the last major famine was in 1943 which is when it was still a colony. A number of prominent British people at the time(Florence Nightingale, Sir James Caird and William Digby, for example), had beef with how famines were being dealt with.
>Britain was looking out for its people. There is noting wrong with that.
You mentioned 'basic economics' earlier. Basic economics teaches Ricardo's comparative advantage. Even more basic economics teaches Smith's absolute advantage. Protectionism is rarely a good thing.