One option is independence, but then you are out of the fire and into the frying pan. The country will immediately be in debt and forced to take on all kinds of loans from China or the world bank and trade one set of colonizers for another. It is certainly one route, but one that comes with its own set of risks and as we know from the few countries that have remained independent, it is a very tough row to hoe.
Another possibility is to find common cause with Dalits, Naxalites, Kashmiris etc. and fight for regional/indigenous self determination and an end to religious and caste discrimination. I think an approach with a wider more internationalist approach that finds common cause will be ultimately stronger and more difficult to exploit by imperialists.
One option is independence, but then you are out of the fire and into the frying pan. The country will immediately be in debt and forced to take on all kinds of loans from China or the world bank and trade one set of colonizers for another. It is certainly one route, but one that comes with its own set of risks and as we know from the few countries that have remained independent, it is a very tough row to hoe.
Another possibility is to find common cause with Dalits, Naxalites, Kashmiris etc. and fight for regional/indigenous self determination and an end to religious and caste discrimination. I think an approach with a wider more internationalist approach that finds common cause will be ultimately stronger and more difficult to exploit by imperialists.