Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Consider, for example, an alternate >> universe in which India integrated with Great Britain in 1950, 96% of >> the members of parliament at Westminster were representatives of >> districts in the former "colony" (considering relative populations of >> 60M vs the combined population of India and Pakistan), the PM at >> Downing Street was not a native of those peculiar islands off the >> European coast, and the Anglo-Saxon population of the "Empire" was >> nearly completely disenfranchised. :) > > Would never have happened.
Of course -- there was not the slightest possibility of it whatsoever. That doesn't make the contemplation of the counterfactual any less amusing. Among other things, it sheds light on the nature of empires. Perry
