India is a massive subcontinent that willingly embraced British administration and laws to govern the myriad of commercial disputes that inevitably arise from economic development. India's hundreds of tribes and languages were ill-situated and ill-equiped in a domestic environment that had been feuding among itself for nearly a millenium, often violently, whether to live under [[Sharia]] law administered by its [[Muslim]] minority, of some other localized system. The white Europeans brought with them a system of laws that seemed more [[democratic]], along with job opportunities, prosperity, and trade that hadn't previously existed. | India is a massive subcontinent that willingly embraced British administration and laws to govern the myriad of commercial disputes that inevitably arise from economic development. India's hundreds of tribes and languages were ill-situated and ill-equiped in a domestic environment that had been feuding among itself for nearly a millenium, often violently, whether to live under [[Sharia]] law administered by its [[Muslim]] minority, of some other localized system. The white Europeans brought with them a system of laws that seemed more [[democratic]], along with job opportunities, prosperity, and trade that hadn't previously existed. |