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True, in India and other places it was a very different story. Legolas Send a noteboard - 06/12/2018 11:44:24 PM

View original postTrue, there was no necessary reason for proportional representation, but I doubt a few MPs for window dressing would have stopped the Revolution. Ultimate power would still have resided in London, and I doubt the colonies would have accepted that for long.

I guess given the relative populations, giving the colonies a remotely reasonable number MPs would've meant giving them real power, which indeed was never going to happen.
View original postHmm... I'd have thought Delhi, Lahore and Calcutta were all larger at the time, but maybe I'm wrong.

I'm sure they were, just maybe not in the British Empire yet. Based on a quick check, Kolkata was the only one of those three that was under British control in 1776, and technically it was the East India Company rather than the crown, so perhaps that's why they don't count it? But yeah, it had over 120 000 inhabitants by then, so definitely far larger than any British-owned city other than London.
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Wow you are telling lots of myths and there are falsehoods in said myths. Roland00 - 06/12/2018 12:02:14 AM 331 Views
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Whoa, you're right, seems I'm spectacularly wrong on the numbers. Legolas - 06/12/2018 07:44:15 PM 335 Views
The numbers were never in the Brits favor... fionwe1987 - 06/12/2018 09:52:28 PM 353 Views
True, in India and other places it was a very different story. Legolas - 06/12/2018 11:44:24 PM 319 Views
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The president doesn't set taxes, though... Legolas - 06/12/2018 07:46:17 PM 338 Views
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