Slavish Mentality

Some people think that, it was because of british, India saw Industrialization  and that made India what it is today & hence needs to be appreciated & because of this british rule was good. But those people forget to see that, If the British left any lasting legacies, it was not because they were philanthropists, but because they used those very same institutions themselves, to rob us blind..As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge historian Angus Maddison has shown, India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6% in 1700, almost equal to Europe's share of 23.3% at that time, to as low as 3.8% in 1952.Yet an economist like Manmohan Singh, thanked (read:http://www.hindu.com/nic/0046/pmspeech.htm) the British for good Governance, when they impoverished India and robbed all it's riches? It's a very slavish mentality (fostered by the British) that makes us think that they were responsible for any good that is presently in India. 

There have been in the course of India's history periods of progress and prosperity followed by intervals of decay and even chaos and the former have been always characterised by a very high level of culture and civilization.India contributed to mathematics, astronomy, medicine, metallurgy etc, much before there were any invaders (Muslims, French, Dutch, British). Only through ignorance or through prejudice could one assert that under British rule India began to experience for the first time what political unity was.

Couldn't change (Industrialization etc) have happened organically without all the brutality and enslavement of colonization?

We need to get rid of that slavish mentality and to stop being like well-trained dogs! Every country goes through periods of turmoil for long periods after becoming independent. Read the violent history of the United States.
With all its problems and extreme poverty, India is a shining beacon of democracy and has been a stellar example of tolerance and openness for thousands of years.