Were the British colonial influences on India good or bad?

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Had the British East India Company not assumed control of the lion's share of India in the 18th century it is almost certain that France would have.

I suspect that sentence is missing a "not".

Fixed.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by LordShiva


She must be North Indian. Hindi and Urdu are indeed very closely related (more so than Spanish or Portuguese), but as a Hindi-speaker, I can't understand any of the other major Aryan languages.
I speak Bengali and Assamese, too, and those two are pretty closely related (I imagine the other North Eastern languages, being tribal in origin, aren't). They branched off the Aryan language tree earlier than the Western/Northern languages, though, and are quite removed.

She was from Bihar, but I seem to recall that her family was from Maratha.

So would Hindu, Urdu, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Gujrathi, Sindhi, Marathi and Bohjpuri belong to the Northwest group of Aryan languages?

[LordShiva]

Yup