Monsoon II - a colonial construct

A newspaper this week carried an opinion piece arguing that India's famous monsoon was a colonial construct designed by the British to instill a sense of nationhood amongst restive Indians. The notion of a single, benevolent and nation-nourishing cloud was at odds with the reality of India's patchy and inconsistent rainfall - or so he argued. The storm last week in Delhi fitted my mental image of 'the monsoon.' And colonial constructs aside I'd like to maintain that name because it sounds so much more exotic . . . . A bit like 'the outback' or 'the far east' or 'El nino.'