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Originally posted by Faceman:
Gandhi once wrote: "One lakh of Englishmen cannot keep under subjection thirty crores of human beings merely by brute force."
* 1 lakh = 100 000
** 1 crore = 10 million
This was the reason why the British had to leave India and it also applies to the US more than 150 years earlier.
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True... With the difference of course that in the case of the US, a very large part of the population was still loyal to the British king in those days. But it was definitely one of the major practical problems the British had to deal with.