@Pratap
You seems to be a very narrow racist kind of intellectual who thinks that winning a war is the only supreme virtue of civilisation and any one who is won over in military battles by others is inferior. You seem to think like that old British Clapham sect of Christians for whom it was impossible to conceive that there was any virtue in India; and it was axiomatic for them that India was sunk in superstition, ignorance, misery, and wretchedness. Only their use of the terms ignorance, misery, wretchedness, etc., was according to the then current British Christian terminology; and was used by them in the Christian religious sense (i.e. their belief that the people of India were in constant misery and sunk in wretchedness because of their ignorance of Christianity), and not as regards the material or secular condition of the people of India.
Or you judge India from a purely materialistic view who weighed Indian society and civilisation from the pedestal of materialism like James Mill. For him the highest form of civilisation, was a successful military civilisation. Consequently, he was all for manly virtues and, according to his measure, India was in fact very "effeminate" (the word you use most of the time) and so came very low on his scale of civilisation. Being the celebrated author of the voluminous History of British India, considered the major text about India (which every British officer, who came to India had to digest from 1820 onwards), it was natural that James Mill's strictures and judgement had even greater sway with the British who ruled India, than even the strictures of William Wilberforce.
(taken from Dharampal's writtings)