というイアン・ブルマのProject Syndicate論説(原題は「The Colonial Trap」)をMostly Economicsが紹介している。以下は引用部の孫引き。 On February 20, 1947, Clement Attlee, the socialist British prime minister, informed parliament that India would become independent no later than June 1948. Attlee could not wait for the British to withdraw from a country whose leaders, Muslim and Hindu, had long been clamoring for independence. But India wa