India has remained a colonial state

When India became independent, its first head of state was its last Viceroy. Pakistan chose to break the connection completely and Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the head of state. The Congress, despite its years of struggle for independence, chose continuity with the British Raj rather than rupture. This was also the message implicit in the Gandhian tactic of unarmed struggle and lawful defiance of the regime. The Congress never challenged the system of courts nor the legal corpus built up under British rule.

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