Understanding India's alignment dilemma

India was ruled by the English roughly for two hundred years from mid-eighteenth century to mid-twentieth century.

- Chander Gupta

Broadly speaking, the East India Company consolidated its grip over the length and breadth of India for the first 100 years before the British Crown directly took over the reins of governance for the next 100 years. Independent India inherited English language as an undeniable legacy of the two hundred years of British colonialism. The past is a reality.

In the present-day era, just like the US dollar is a global currency, English language is a global language. Those who know the English language can communicate almost in every nook and corner of the world. Having been a British colony for almost 200 years, India embraced English language in government work, court work, and higher education, Almost all educated Indians are proficient in English language.