My answer is quite different: Divide and rule did not came from British, it was created by Hindu Learned men who interpreted the veds , Upanisad and brought 18 puraan and make it their lives easy living, they become a new clan. They humiliate other human being with caste system and never able to rise. Like the black American who was stolen from African nations were slave. Still their are tons of rules and regulation that suppresses their rights. The vicious cycle of underdog is generational underdog, very hard to uplift them and in reality their have not any true attempt to uplift them.

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