Posted on 09/13/2022 4:24:05 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Probably the biggest contribution of all, a common language. There are literally a thousand different languages in India, but most Indians do also speak English.
What they really mean is that the East India Company and later Britain directly put an end to the even more widespread looting, rapine and pillaging of local elites, unified the whole country, gave it a semblance of a central administration and democratic governance.
If you want to look at a really murderous invasion of India, look at the Muslim invasions. They are, as one British archaeologist noted, easy to find in the archaeological record by the thick layer of ash and the unburied remains of humans and animals.
This, of course, is Marxist mythology.
Just about anywhere in the pre-modern world was a Third World s---hole.
It was industrialization that pushed the West above the rest.
And the West was no more rapacious than anyone else.
“We Wuz Kangz!”
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
You could write a similar story about every race and people in the entire world covering all of human history when one people defeat another in war.
If ever America were to fall to a foreign invader, the same would happen to us. The greatest rape and pillage in history would ensue.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, I knew an Indian social worker lady born in Kerala. When India got its independence, she figured there would be no place for a professional woman of her caste and complexion in independent India and asked the British for a job in British Malaya where she was working when I knew her.
Turned out about 80% never even knew that British rule had existed.
“You won’t like what comes after America” - Leonard Cohen
LOL, don’t get me started!!!!!
yep! the truth is America is the only nation in the history of the world that didn’t do what is described. And we have kept nearly anyone else from doing it since WW2 at US taxpayer expense.
Both statements are true. My statement and Will Durant’s. I agree with both and both can be simultaneously true. A great and ancient civilization (which the British immediately recognized, hence their initial reluctance to ban Suttee), but also full of superstition, illiteracy, and widespread ignorance of their own great achievements, which were uncovered by the British recognition of the extraordinary nature of the Sanskrit language as The Indo-European language and other aspects of India’s past.
I might add that during the British control, she traveled all over India with other college students on top of the railroad cars on the system built by the British. She said she met Mahatma Gandhi and asked him for an autograph. He said he would give it to her if she promised to spin cotton two hours ever day. She told him “Forget it, never mind.”
And what would any of these countries be without British colonization? Third world sxxx holes
And what would any of these countries be without British colonization? Third world sxxx holes
Looks like this was written by Obama.
Now Britain is becoming a Third World Sxxx hole.
I studied British Colonial history in college.
They natives were not the obsequious innocents they are often portrayed to be in literature and film.
For some harrowing reading, read up on the 1857 Indian Mutiny, and pay particular attention to the atrocity at Cawnpore. Some titles are: “The Great Mutiny” by Christopher Hibbert; “Our Bones are Scattered” by Andrew Ward; and “The Great Indian Mutiny” by Richard Collier.
Pfft, unreadable whining tripe.
I could not get to the end of it.
Superior cultures ALWAYS conquer and loot the inferior.
well...there’s the aqueduct.. yeah, yeah yeah.
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