why did the british not mix up with the indians ?
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They understood Indians as lower-caste.
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Had the British not left India, how different would India be today from what it is at present?
When the British left India, the nation was a burning mess. There were riots everywhere in the last years of the Raj and the administration proved thoroughly incapable of ruling India. Since agriculture was ignored for the most part, there were massive famines throughout the British rule. One of the most brutal ones was in the last couple of years of the Raj - Bengal famine of 1943. Industries were no better - very few major industries existed in India making the middle class go nearly extinct.
Caste system was appalling and the British Indian government found itself like deer in headlights - unable to get anything done to fix the problem. While the rest of the world was fast moving up, the 200 years of the colonization saw India's social systems at their worst. Landlords [Zamindars] were ruling the roost in most of India. The government let them have semi-slavery as long as they paid their dues. By 1947, things were too unbearable.
In politics things were messy too. There were all these independent kingdoms, each with their own systems and administration. India was ignored by most of the world and it had no real standing in the world community. Literacy rate was abysmal - little more than 10% of India could read & write when India got independent.