Genocidal, warmongering Britain is arguably the most evil nation/union/kingdom in the history of the world. BRITAIN HAS COMMITTED GENOCIDES ACROSS FIVE CONTINENTS (from neighbouring Ireland in Europe to North America to Africa to Asia to Oceania), a fact they shamelessly continue to deny. Britain has commited so many crimes against humanity (and crimes against the planet), it would take several volumes of books to explain their countless acts of cruelty. Britain (and it's predecessor state) has committed multiple genocides in neighbouring Ireland, from the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland to the Great Irish famine/genocide to the murdering and torturing of Irish Republicans by the Black and Tans to murdering innocent civilians in the Dublin Monaghan bombings and the civilians gunned down in two Bloody Sundays in Ireland (google all of it). Britain was the second largest enslaver in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, a trade which resulted in the deaths of millions of African slaves as they were treated like cattle and worked to near death. Britain abolished slavery after paying reparations not to the slaves but to the slave owners!!!. Britain continued with slavery in another name with indentured labour, where the plight of the labourers was no better than that of the slaves. Britain maintained concentration camps in the Boer War where tens of thousands of men, women and children perished (google 'Boer war concentration camp'). Britain committed genocide in the 1950s in Kenya (google 'Caroline Elkins Imperial Reckoning'). In addition to committing slavery and genocide in Africa, Britain looted the resources of several African countries and stole away countless valuable artefacts, artefacts which the British Museum shamelessly continues to possess. During their rule in India, Britain siphoned off 45 trillions dollars in today's money (watch the VICE video on it). Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Indian rebels were tortured and murdered in the aftermath of the 1857 war of independence (entire rebel towns were 'cleansed'). Tens of millions of Indians starved to death during the dozens of famines as the inhumane British rulers looked away. In modern day Sri Lanka, in the aftermath of the Uva rebellion, the entire male population was put to death (google 'Uva rebellion'). The Bengal Famine of 1943 was genocide committed by a genocidal racist bastard called Winston Churchill (google 'Madhushree Mukherjee Churchill's Secret War'). The British murdered countless innocent civilians in massacres like Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Quissa Khwani Bazaar massacre, Pathorughat Massacre (google them all; these are the ones we know of, imagine the countless massacres Britain destroyed all records of). British forces murdered tens of thousands of Indians during the Quit India movement. In China, Britain fought the Opium Wars. Britain also used 'divide and rule' to turn different groups against each other. Btw, all the railways, ports, infrastructure Britain built in India were to help them transport the resources it stole. Britain committed genocide in North America (google 'small pox infected blanket). Britain committed genocide in Oceania (google 'British genocide in Australia'). If you thought that was all in the distant past, think of the Iraq War in 2003 twenty years ago where the UK illegally invaded and killed thousands of Iraqis. Also think of the bombing of Libya by British warplanes, the funding of Al Nusra by Britain (google 'Britain Al Nusra'). Britain is a shameless, genocidal, warmongering nation that continues to deny, deflect and obfuscate it's countless crimes against humanity.
Not saying "sorry", but to return all the art entities that the Brits stole and shipped off to London. Even a temple from South India which the British Museum is putting on display now in the India Hall, British Museum , thinking enough time has elapsed to make the Indian public disregardful of the theft.
Dr Tharoor have his reasons why he is talking about reparations "Saga". We Indians are much better than that, Indians from around the world are quiet happy about themselves and their close families. Good influence from people Dr Tharoor, Dr Vandana and many important educated legendary are teaching the world and guiding building people lives for the good future lifestyle
On interiority of faith and belief, not only Hinduim as Dr. Shashi said but also other believers of other religions, like christianity have projection of faith not above or heaven but within themselves or their heart and soul...if this part is to be commented
The crimes which Britain committed in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (in British India) as a colonial power are immeasurable. Colonialism was the worst sort of aggression. An aggressor should be penalized like Germany and Japan? German and Japanese aggression was for a short period of time but British aggression was enormously long, terribly painful and disgusting in all respects. Apology is a tiny word. REPRISALS.
Britain came to trade and then invested huge sums. The British created an Indian coal industry from nothing, a valuable natural resource for India. Coal was used to power the railways. Without coal India could not have a modern steel industry. Tata Steel was founded by Indians in 1907 and is now one of the largest steel companies in the world.
"And on the other side of the balance sheet were the immense British investments in Indian infrastructure, irrigation and industry. By the 1880's the British had invested £279 million in India, not much less than one fifth of their entire investment overseas. By 1914 the figure had reached £400 million. The British increased the area of irrigated land by a factor of eight, so that by the end of the Raj a quarter of all land was irrigated, compared with just 5 per cent of it under the Mughals. They created an Indian coal industry from scratch which by 1914 produced nearly 16 million tons a year. They increased the number of jute spindles by a factor of ten". Niall Ferguson, Empire
"The East India Company didn't cause a decline in the economy of India, the reverse is true. . .[and] could never have survived without the collaboration and partnership of thousands of Indian merchants, agents, artisans, bankers, and transporters. The Company was the biggest business firm in the world of its time, and therefore, made many Indians fabulously rich. Some of the most famous entrepreneurs and business families of nineteenth-century India made their money trading with the Company or with European merchants. Palatial homes in the north of Calcutta attest to that wealth. These profits were much larger in scale than the profits the Company sent back to England". Quotation from: The East India Company. The World’s Most Powerful Corporation. Tirthankar Roy, 2012 Penguin Books. Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History, born and educated in India.
"Prior to the Company’s takeover around 1757-65, the strongest military power in India belonged to the Maratha Empire. Just before Company takeover, Maratha forces invaded Bengal, killed and robbed merchants, destroyed crops, and raped women. Merchants fled from this horror to Calcutta, then under the Company’s possession. Certainly, the average Bengali or Marwari merchant of that time would have felt positively about the Company. Similar sentiment prevailed among the Parsis of Bombay and Surat, and the Telugu and Tamil merchants of Madras. The most influential Indians in the port cities like Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras actively welcomed Company’s rule over Indian ones.". Quotation from Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History, born and educated in India
As for as a civilizing influence: "the British Raj brought with it from the West certain standards of humanity which Indian society had not yet attained. Early action was taken to suppress female infanticide. After long hesitation and in the teeth of orthodox Hindu opposition, to aid and abet a performance of suttee was declared to be culpable homicide and, if it were involuntary, murder. The gangs of Thugs, who strangled harmless wayfarers in the service of the goddess Kali, were broken up. Human sacrifice, which had lingered on in some primitive hill districts, was stamped out. The slave trade was stifled, the legal status of slavery was abolished, and in 1860 the owning of slaves was finally prohibited". Re-statement and Balance Sheet. Sir Reginald Coupland. 1945
All the war which India fought against Pakistan, were in Congress era and believe me he's very much congressman...Congress in india like democrats in usa. They look good outside but inside they r horrible
Unfortunately this person was unable to debate with J.Saideepak/Dr.Vikram Sampath/Dr.Ananda Ranganathan. Utsa Patnaik a economic Historian has estimated the loot by the British from India is estimated at $ 45 trillions dollars.
The interviewer is delusional. She said she would have to ‘read’ the question pertaining to cricket; when clearly she wasn’t well-versed with any of her questions and read most of them. And what’s with the attitude. You don’t get to speak like that as a moderator.
Tharoor why are you not advocating for soft power reparations from British, which Rajiv Malhotra is fighting for. We do not want monetary reparations from British for their colonial crimes, rather they can treat ancient Indian civilizational values and wisdom with respect and equality, rather than narrow racist inferiority. That would suffice for Indians, as we Indians are quite liberal hearted..
Bakwas. Britishers made India as a country. British colonization was one of the best things ever happened. They brought modern education, schools, university, made railways everything. Without Britishers, India wouldn't even exist as a country. In 70 years, the same leaders like Tharoor has turned country into the largest slum of the world. And look where Britishers stayed- The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc all TOP countries. Indians are taught fake history and politicians repeat the same fake history because Indians LOVE to hear that they are always the victims. This is how people rather blame 'outsiders' than asking these same politicians WHY INDIA IS A FAILED COUNTRY IN 70 YEARS WHEN INDIANS ARE RULING IT? It is sad that Britishers left India. It would have been next US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. Free education, free healthcare, cleanliness, rule of law............everything.
1. Whereas, Indian princes (comprising maharajahs, rajahs, nawabs and others) exploited their own subjects without heed to their troubles, gave no material, financial support and behaved haughtily and nastily (as present day Indian politicians still do) Imperial Britain provided them with pensions, 3 times a day food, clothes and official quarters and behaved with them justly, honesty and decently. 2. No wonder God wanted that Britishers come and swipe away the barbarous practices of sati (the practice of burning widows on funeral pyres), thugee (the ritualized murder of travellers as a sacrifice to Gods), prevention of cruelty to animals, gang-robbery, primitive gynecology, shunning of lwer castes (Untouchables) by all higher castes and traders, forced marriage before puberty, abolition of Slavery, Female Infanticide which is still a problem in India of 2019 (Bengal Regulation Acts of 1795 and 1804 declared murdering of female infant illegal and thus in 1870; an act was passed for the prohibition of female infanticide.), human sacrifice for good harvest, prevent cruelty to animals not to mention a hundred other big critical things along with the establishing the rule of law. British rule in India brought high standards of sanitation and public health, modern communications, the protection of minorities such as the Untouchables and Muslims from majority Hindu domination and balancing the interests of India’s numerous and competing religions and regions. Southern India's devadasi system, which 'dedicates' girls to a life of sex work in the name of religion, continues inspite of British opposition to it and despite being made illegal in 1988. In fact, under the BJP, India's capital of Delhi is a political as well as a rape capital (government statistics of 2018 prove it) and women fear to go out in Delhi and several Northern sates alone after 2000 hours. 3. India of 2019 is still similar to when in the 1800's William Wilberforce and Charles Grant said in a report, ‘the Indian Society is full of superstition, idolatry and tyranny of the priests’. Now wonder BJP won now under Modi-Shah in the name of Hindutva. 4. Shashi Tharoor's knowledge is limited. Significantly, the British Army also protected northern India from Turks, Persians, Afghan (Afridi, Talib etc.) tribes and the Russians, while keeping the peace between Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus, who he thought might massacre each other . Recollect how Gujarat Sarnath temples and Nalanda in Bihar were destroyed by Turks and Persians! Just remember that India was invaded through the times since the BC's. 5. Churchill predicted that were the British to leave communal massacres would happen (which is what EXACTLY happened after the British left India in 1947 and communal massacres are frequent in modern India). 6. Fact: During British Raj, the richest people in India were Indian merchants or princes, not Britons i.e. the rulers. Whereas now in present day India people get into politics to get rich.
Fistbof all Hinduism is not a religion it is a way of living . We all living in India most of us practice this sanskriti no matter what our religion is
was the code name of the Hyderabad "police action" in September 1948, by the then newly independent Dominion of India against Hyderabad State. It was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the Nizam-ruled princely state, annexing it into the Indian Union.
He very much answered that question ...for the question that was asked by the individual was followed by a different question by the lady there for the question s were on the same lines ....therefore , he decides to answer them both once both of then finished their questioning on the same matter....
An Era of Darkness / An Inglorious Empire has sold record number of hardcover copies is because the publishers haven't produced the paperback edition till now (03Jul 2019).
@@satyamevjayate1601 Do you think religion has got anything to do with the Kashmir problem? The real reason is poverty. And guess who created poverty and sectarianism in the Indian subcontinent?
@@sudhannv4590 wiki is not something you can quote on, it is not a legitimate work, and hence cant be taken as correct source because people like you and me can write anything and it will be published on it
I sent my contribution to the wrong forum to repeat what I had said briefly was THE BRITISH MONARCHY MUST RETURN ALL TREASURES TO INDIA THAT WAS TAKEN witch ever way from INDIA with proper supervision
@@donkeydesiamericanprofessor ARE you actually saying that the BRITISH has redeemed themselves for their role in destroying the INDIAN economy by opening museums in INDIAN states, or is that justification for the brutal rape of an entire continent and it`s people, please explain because I am at a total loss with your contribution..... SIR.
ST is eloquent , a politician, can venerate anything or demonize anything by cherry picking! It is an art. Britishers looted yes, but economic damages are reversible , not the religious conversion happened prior to that, which led to partition. What's the price tag for that? Trillion trillion? ST don't credit Britishers for English, but thinks Nehru did it. Nehru could choose English, only because it was already there as a connecting language. Britishers placed the seed, which only grew! Pakistan and Bangla also have English without Nehru! I come from a small village, but our elementary school is now 110 yrs old. Same with college and the Highschool. I don't see many Institutions of that excellence built after the Independence. Those days mass education was not a priority among people. Only few among upper caste would go to school. Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavad Gita to English and promoted it introducing it in the juidiciary system. Even INC was initiated bt the britishers! Many many leaders were all Oxford educated. Britishers facilitated eductaion. List goes on. Our own orthodoxy was the hindrance for many many reforms, Britishers wanted to introduce! It's a shame we blame Britishers even after 75 yrs of independence. Most importantly, Britishers handed over a united India even with the partition! If not for the Britishers Pakistan would have been much bigger with a smaller India next to it, or may be like Iran, an Islamic country! Yes, Marathas expanded briefly, but lost in the 3rd panipat battle, Tippu and Nizams were expanding in the south!
In Singapore we have very few gifted orators. None of us can match Mr. Tharoor's eloquence. Maybe because our leaders talk very little and do quite a lot. We were also under Britain's rule, but got over all that long ago. Too busy cleaning, building, and maintaining the country.
Free Kashmir Demilitarisation from masculine military oppression heading for obliteration of this beautiful geographical Himalayan location seems like occupation if you use your imagination of families in despair children are shot on a daily basis to the faces obliteration, of the races this is not the solution obviously, leads to revolution too much retribution end of resolutions, harmonisation, reconciliation or peace. Always the same Partition to blame the consequences of independence . Here we go again...... Love&light
are you saying that muslims are the root cause of every problem in india because as per you india was meant only for non muslims that is why pakistan was created based on two nation theory but still 15% of muslims are present in india, and kashmir being a muslim majority state legally belong to India, so if you want india to leave kashmir only because it is a muslim majority state then 200 million muslims should also goto pakistan or any other arab state God bless
That interviewer lady is such disgusting, no manners whatsoever. Shashi Sir however so nicely smiling and taking all questions like a refined gentlemen as he is.
Not saying "sorry", but to return all the art entities that the Brits stole and shipped off to London. Even a temple from South India which the British Museum is putting on display now in the India Hall, British Museum , thinking enough time has elapsed to make the Indian public disregardful of the theft.
Reconquista: Hinduism Do you not understand what is the context here. It is about reparations, which in other words is, related to monetary matters. Hence there was no need to type anything after the jizaya statistic, unless you're a Hindu fanatic. So I'm just going to consider your reply up till the jizaya argument. Indeed, there were invasions from the far middle east into India like the Ashrafid dynasty and the origins of the Mughal empire. They also looted and plundered into every treasury they got their hands on after waging war against the local kingdoms. However they spent their loot, assimilated in India and adopted to the local culture, unlike what their white European imperial counterparts did, which is loot local rulers of their money through taxes, ancient artifacts, diamonds, precious stones, etc., transfer it to england, sell all of it away at a price six times than its original buy seats in the british parliament and live the rest of their lives as kings. Your argument of the economy reducing from 33% to 25% is invalid. Do you have any proof of that?
@@warnpassion Proof is universal. India was the richest civilization , a highly developed one for 1000 years Read Oxford Scholars research Agnus Madison , economic history of India. Islamic was a barbaric civilization which was far from being great. All the contributions were plagiarisms from hindus , Greeks and Chinese. Yes. Islamic rule was more brutal than british invasions. And its not just about India. Most of the Africa , Asia , eastern and Central Europe was looted and dominated by muslims
@@warnpassion They did NOT assimilate into local culture. It's a myth. The examples given of this are meagre , fringe and unfounded and short lasting. Like Dara Sikoh , who was attached to hindu scriptures was killed by his own brother Aurngazeb
Shahshi...whatever you say,,,, Indians are proud of their religion....and foreign religions like Islam and Christanity must be slowly boycotted from the Indian society,,,from minds and not the people....people who once lost their way must do homecoming/ghar wapsi
will you agree if the Islamic and christian Majority countries boycotted from their society ? i guess you should also do ghar wapsi, because according to muslims everyone is born a Muslim
People are saying that people are converted to Christianity by one section of people...it's actually they volunteer to embrace other religions just because HINDU as a religion not treating them equally...best example DR.Ambedkar who embraced Buddhism!!!!!
When it comes to the Islamic invasions and atrocities this guys sees interesting and stimulating experiences but when it comes to British occupation its evil. While the people in north still carry the chip on their shoulder about the Islamic invasions this man carries a chip about the British occupation and for whatever reason he thinks he is better than the other side. Sheesh!
Tushar Dayal - Mughals were Mughals - not Indians. They never became “us”. There were Indians who converted to a different religion after Mughals came and they continue to be the sons of soil. There may be some insignificant number of “Mughals” who remained after the infightings and wars but I bet you most of them ran to Pakistan during partition.
Go to world History and recently proof from Grave yards of Original people of region in Haryana, visit The Lallantop website, do not mind if you remain a Hindutva the Hate Bhakt. Hindostan Zindabad !!!
@on the fence You said it very rightly ! He is making his point that Shia-Shunni divide is because of Britishers , but he is forgetting that This phenomena became world wide !/ War b/w Saudi and Yeman , Conflict b/w Saudi and Iran , PEW research say that 80% of Sunni Mulslims of Afghanistan and Pakistan think that Shias are not true Muslims ! Just think that if most of Muslims are not ready to Accept Muslims in Minority as 'True Muslims ' , how do they have feelings for Hindus and other Non -Muslims ????? Just think About this fact! And Having these true facts how can he calim that This shia Sunni divide is because of Britishers ??? And how RSS could be blamed for Hindu Muslim Divide ? Bigotary In Muslims became very violent Social Evil , but not one has dare to speak about it !
Almost 70 years after independence, this guy is still talking about British colonisation. It's about time that India grow-up and forget about the past... and drive it into themselves that "No One Owes them a Living" Singapore was also once a British colony and only gained its independence in the early 60s, but today they are the envy of the world for their achievements. OK... Singapore is a very small country, so let's take China with similar levels of progress & development around the 50s & 60s. China GDP had grown from around a few hundred dollars per capita to almost $10K, whilst India's GDP had only risen to around $2K. www.statista.com/statistics/263775/gross-domestic-product-gdp-per-capita-in-china/ www.statista.com/statistics/263771/gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-india/ China's high-speed rails are now the envy of the world, whereas India is still using the trains left behind by the British.
Tharoor made his points brilliantly. Wish I have a copy of his book. One point all of India should keep in mind is that without the experience of colonialism, India would never ever ever ever become a Constitutional Republic. And thanks to Nehru for firming the foundation with Secularism. Thanks to the British intervention (or interference) that preserved India from being Islamised. Cultural exchange between Hindus and Muslims? Very selective. How many temples were destroyed should also be mentioned along. Hinduism has brilliant ideas and accommodative. But it is the height of irrationality to consider animals as gods to be worshipped, such as hanuman, ganesh, cows. Superstition sanitised. Kali. Female infanticide, child marriage, casteism, prevention of female education. I am neither Hindu nor Muslim, but on balance if cornered, I would prefer to be in a Hindu community rather than Muslim.🙏 One fly in Tharoor's ointment is that he appeared miffed at the BJP for making triple talaq illegal... it was to empower women by leveling the playing field --- not to punish the men, as Sir T claimed. Yes, don't legislate what happens in the bedroom between adults. Cricket and English.
Temple desecration under the Muslim rule in India was a continuation of the policy the ruling dynasties pursued in the pre-Islamic period. Hindu kings victorious in battles plundered the temples their vanquished rivals patronised, ferreted away the deities installed there, and in extreme cases, even broke them.
Sashi Tharoor it's simply wrong either uneducated or lying Claims the British only wanted to educate an elite class brown in color but white in education First of all the British were better educated in science medicine why wouldn't that be good for Indians, with the creation of universities in India Secondly, Sashi Tharoor is wrong. More money was spent educating children than University students and for the first time girls could go to school Massachusetts Institute of technology, all of Engineering in America 50% women or more Why didn't IIT give up 50% of their classroom seats benches to women? They didn't do it. They added 20% more seats and still women are not 20% of IIT You are Indian, you should be better educated, I am simply American
“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles.” The statement above is attributed to Churchill. I cannot find it, as a speech or in a book. Although it is widely and increasingly quoted in the Indian press and, given what is happening, he seems to have been prophetic! -K.P., India
dylan thomas A quote given by one of the biggest racist, genocidal, drunkard and fat piece of shite to ever walk on this planet. There may be imperfections, but power is in the hands of people who are a thousand times better than the white imperial bastards who ruled over India for 200 years. Edit: spelling corrections.
Just listen to yourself. I know its fashionable to blame it all on the British! This chap Tharoor has impressed everybody by his Oxford speech and even this uneducated Modi about how much the British owe us! But look at the real history of the world! We were OK 2000 years ago. But when the British came we were ruled by selfish, untrustworthy Pimps who called themselves "RULERS". every few years we had wars among ourselves. There was violence and slaughter everywhere. They connived against each other and only their few cronies and their own people prospered. Their chamchas (like the Nehru family) lived royal lives. When the British came we only had handlooms and spice industry! Just think of this - if we were that superior, we would have been going up in stature in the last 70 years instead of spiraling down. All I am saying is that "this Fay guy" predicted correctly!!!!
pooran gattu What seems to be so fashionable to you? Are arguments stating the facts and truths about India's colonial history brushed off as being fashionable? As I say again, we may have imperfections (which country is?) but we are still a thousand times better than the thieving, avaricious and murdering board of directors of the corporation that ruled over us for 100 years and the white queen, Victoria and her fucking family which ruled over us for the 90 years that followed. What was the average GDP growth during those two centuries? It was 0.01%. What is the GDP growth rate now? It is between 7 - 8% continuous for the last decade. There are many areas where we need to improve but the seeds of the problems which were left behind by the british dive and rule policy will take some time to get solved. What do you mean by 'only' the handloom and spice industry? It was the most profitable and booming industry in the medieval world, just how IT is today. It seems to me that you are an empire apologist or severely suffer from an identity crisis.
Agree with you 100% - the problem is we like to believe all the untruths about how we were exploited!! If we were good we would have discipline and fairness in everything!
Dylan Thomas we will never have the support here. We still have a population who have been taught that it is our fate to pursue the profession and the culture into which we were born in. Even today we are ruled by a well organized cast based set of rulers who will never change! Every single Ordinance that ever did India any good came from the white man and continues! Just last week the "me-too" thing has come to India! Ajso every month or two the Supreme Court of India borrows an idea out of the White man's Law Book! Let me repeat what you just said and if you go through it I believe its more true today than ever before:“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles.”
Owleyes firstly: deficit at the time of independence was so large that it took almost 65 years to bridge the gap. It will take another 5 years bridge the gap fully across the country(conditions apply). Second : socialism did play its part in delaying bridging the gap for 60 years.
i bet you are ignorant enough not to know basics of world history, so stop pretending as some kind of master who has seen it all. why dont you go and read about india before and after independence you racist filth
One sided unbalanced ungrateful speech from Mr.Tharoor. If the British wouldn't have developed India, India would have been worse than Africa today, as a illiterate underdeveloped poverty stricken superstitious country. When British entered India, Indians were practising sati, low caste Indians who formed the majority of the country couldnt study, medical facilities were scarce, there was no proper justice system, there were no science and technology, no trains, no buses, no printing press, well nothing was there in India. All India had was natural resources like spices, gold, etc. If we value India's natural resources in today's money against India's Industrial value, natural resources is a negligible fraction. So India should be grateful to the British for giving India a life in the world stage. If British didnt enter India, India today would be carrying a begging bowl before the world to feed India.
Sashi Tharoor claims that the British destroyed the Indian shipbuilding business, but look at the boats that Indian pirates were using versus the British and Portuguese man of war. And why wouldn't the British and Portuguese Navy defend their trading ships from Indian pirates. Look at the Indian maratha empire grabs and gallivat boats compared to British Portuguese trading ships and British Portuguese Navy man of war. Indians were just pirates in a tiny boat blasted out of the water by British cannons. Did you see Tom Hanks movie? Did the British Portuguese Navy lose a battle at Sea to the indians? Yes they did have you ever had roaches mice in your house? Ants? Did you ever hear of somebody dying from being stung by a swarm of bees?
Wow. I am so proud to be Brit. I must be descended from Gods. To think that my ancestors living on a small island off the coast of Europe managed to conquer a sub-continent half way round the world! We must be the master race!
@@smilee2566 Stop that right now. I will hear no ill words spoken of the Portuguese. They are our oldest allies, even if they are Catholic. [Edit] And you don't need to bring the Mughals into it. They weren't white Europeans and so they weren't inherently evil.
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Inglorious empire made me his fan. Respect from Pakistan
Read the book a few years back. Highlighted all important points. This book should be selected as textbook in every school.
Genocidal, warmongering Britain is arguably the most evil nation/union/kingdom in the history of the world. BRITAIN HAS COMMITTED GENOCIDES ACROSS FIVE CONTINENTS (from neighbouring Ireland in Europe to North America to Africa to Asia to Oceania), a fact they shamelessly continue to deny.
Britain has commited so many crimes against humanity (and crimes against the planet), it would take several volumes of books to explain their countless acts of cruelty.
Britain (and it's predecessor state) has committed multiple genocides in neighbouring Ireland, from the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland to the Great Irish famine/genocide to the murdering and torturing of Irish Republicans by the Black and Tans to murdering innocent civilians in the Dublin Monaghan bombings and the civilians gunned down in two Bloody Sundays in Ireland (google all of it).
Britain was the second largest enslaver in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, a trade which resulted in the deaths of millions of African slaves as they were treated like cattle and worked to near death. Britain abolished slavery after paying reparations not to the slaves but to the slave owners!!!. Britain continued with slavery in another name with indentured labour, where the plight of the labourers was no better than that of the slaves. Britain maintained concentration camps in the Boer War where tens of thousands of men, women and children perished (google 'Boer war concentration camp'). Britain committed genocide in the 1950s in Kenya (google 'Caroline Elkins Imperial Reckoning'). In addition to committing slavery and genocide in Africa, Britain looted the resources of several African countries and stole away countless valuable artefacts, artefacts which the British Museum shamelessly continues to possess.
During their rule in India, Britain siphoned off 45 trillions dollars in today's money (watch the VICE video on it). Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Indian rebels were tortured and murdered in the aftermath of the 1857 war of independence (entire rebel towns were 'cleansed'). Tens of millions of Indians starved to death during the dozens of famines as the inhumane British rulers looked away. In modern day Sri Lanka, in the aftermath of the Uva rebellion, the entire male population was put to death (google 'Uva rebellion'). The Bengal Famine of 1943 was genocide committed by a genocidal racist bastard called Winston Churchill (google 'Madhushree Mukherjee Churchill's Secret War'). The British murdered countless innocent civilians in massacres like Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Quissa Khwani Bazaar massacre, Pathorughat Massacre (google them all; these are the ones we know of, imagine the countless massacres Britain destroyed all records of). British forces murdered tens of thousands of Indians during the Quit India movement. In China, Britain fought the Opium Wars. Britain also used 'divide and rule' to turn different groups against each other. Btw, all the railways, ports, infrastructure Britain built in India were to help them transport the resources it stole.
Britain committed genocide in North America (google 'small pox infected blanket).
Britain committed genocide in Oceania (google 'British genocide in Australia').
If you thought that was all in the distant past, think of the Iraq War in 2003 twenty years ago where the UK illegally invaded and killed thousands of Iraqis. Also think of the bombing of Libya by British warplanes, the funding of Al Nusra by Britain (google 'Britain Al Nusra').
Britain is a shameless, genocidal, warmongering nation that continues to deny, deflect and obfuscate it's countless crimes against humanity.
He is a genius... Lots of love and respect to tharoor sir.. May god bless him..
I wish he become the PM in the future
Why ? Just because he can utter few words in English ! Pathetic !
That position would most likely corrupt anything good in him so I would disagree
@@indianspeaks8957 no cause he's smart and not just a face like Modi but I agree he shouldn't be PM
Mr. Tharoor ....the human resource minister is very eloquent ...vociferous..and knows how to put people in their place!!!
and a murderernow
@@madtitanoboa462 No person murders their own spouse...comm'on...!!
Murder wife
Symbolic apology & symbolic reparations is surely a middle ground moral rational settlement.
Not saying "sorry", but to return all the art entities that the Brits stole and shipped off to London. Even a temple from South India which the British Museum is putting on display now in the India Hall, British Museum , thinking enough time has elapsed to make the Indian public disregardful of the theft.
Hi huu
Dr Tharoor have his reasons why he is talking about reparations "Saga". We Indians are much better than that, Indians from around the world are quiet happy about themselves and their close families. Good influence from people Dr Tharoor, Dr Vandana and many important educated legendary are teaching the world and guiding building people lives for the good future lifestyle
Everybody looking is English vocabulary,but I'm looking his glamouras
The main logic is based on humanity.if their is no existence of humanity their is no meaning of religion and vice versa
Salute sir, proud for country
36 minute, you interviewer, Mind your tone when you say, short question, if you r in a bad mood, stay home...
Indians can't handle truth
On interiority of faith and belief, not only Hinduim as Dr. Shashi said but also other believers of other religions, like christianity have projection of faith not above or heaven but within themselves or their heart and soul...if this part is to be commented
The crimes which Britain committed in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (in British India) as a colonial power are immeasurable. Colonialism was the worst sort of aggression. An aggressor should be penalized like Germany and Japan? German and Japanese aggression was for a short period of time but British aggression was enormously long, terribly painful and disgusting in all respects. Apology is a tiny word. REPRISALS.
Britain came to trade and then invested huge sums. The British created an Indian coal industry from nothing, a valuable natural resource for India. Coal was used to power the railways. Without coal India could not have a modern steel industry. Tata Steel was founded by Indians in 1907 and is now one of the largest steel companies in the world.
"And on the other side of the balance sheet were the immense British investments in Indian infrastructure, irrigation and industry. By the 1880's the British had invested £279 million in India, not much less than one fifth of their entire investment overseas. By 1914 the figure had reached £400 million. The British increased the area of irrigated land by a factor of eight, so that by the end of the Raj a quarter of all land was irrigated, compared with just 5 per cent of it under the Mughals. They created an Indian coal industry from scratch which by 1914 produced nearly 16 million tons a year. They increased the number of jute spindles by a factor of ten". Niall Ferguson, Empire
"The East India Company didn't cause a decline in the economy of India, the reverse is true. . .[and] could never have survived without the collaboration and partnership of thousands of Indian merchants, agents, artisans, bankers, and transporters. The Company was the biggest business firm in the world of its time, and therefore, made many Indians fabulously rich. Some of the most famous entrepreneurs and business families of nineteenth-century India made their money trading with the Company or with European merchants. Palatial homes in the north of Calcutta attest to that wealth. These profits were much larger in scale than the profits the Company sent back to England". Quotation from: The East India Company. The World’s Most Powerful Corporation. Tirthankar Roy, 2012 Penguin Books. Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History, born and educated in India.
"Prior to the Company’s takeover around 1757-65, the strongest military power in India belonged to the Maratha Empire. Just before Company takeover, Maratha forces invaded Bengal, killed and robbed merchants, destroyed crops, and raped women. Merchants fled from this horror to Calcutta, then under the Company’s possession. Certainly, the average Bengali or Marwari merchant of that time would have felt positively about the Company. Similar sentiment prevailed among the Parsis of Bombay and Surat, and the Telugu and Tamil merchants of Madras. The most influential Indians in the port cities like Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras actively welcomed Company’s rule over Indian ones.". Quotation from Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History, born and educated in India
As for as a civilizing influence: "the British Raj brought with it from the West certain standards of humanity which Indian society had not yet attained. Early action was taken to suppress female infanticide. After long hesitation and in the teeth of orthodox Hindu opposition, to aid and abet a performance of suttee was declared to be culpable homicide and, if it were involuntary, murder. The gangs of Thugs, who strangled harmless wayfarers in the service of the goddess Kali, were broken up. Human sacrifice, which had lingered on in some primitive hill districts, was stamped out. The slave trade was stifled, the legal status of slavery was abolished, and in 1860 the owning of slaves was finally prohibited". Re-statement and Balance Sheet. Sir Reginald Coupland. 1945
As a Pakistani i would love to see this guy be the leader of India.
we don't want your opinion... Do care of your country which is going to become beggar Soon !
Keep Modi in for another year and you will be there soon my friend. Your money will be in the pockets of Albani and Modi's pockets.
Take care of you.. Now Pakistan will not be there on map of the world... We elected Modi again...
All the war which India fought against Pakistan, were in Congress era and believe me he's very much congressman...Congress in india like democrats in usa. They look good outside but inside they r horrible
NAHH! JAISHANKAR next pm of India...
This interviewer probably had a bad mood that day, unprofessional af
Unfortunately this person was unable to debate with J.Saideepak/Dr.Vikram Sampath/Dr.Ananda Ranganathan.
Utsa Patnaik a economic Historian has estimated the loot by the British from India is estimated at $ 45 trillions dollars.
The interviewer is delusional. She said she would have to ‘read’ the question pertaining to cricket; when clearly she wasn’t well-versed with any of her questions and read most of them. And what’s with the attitude. You don’t get to speak like that as a moderator.
What's so wrong with reading the questions? That makes her delusional - if she is, then you are an idiot
Tharoor why are you not advocating for soft power reparations from British, which Rajiv Malhotra is fighting for. We do not want monetary reparations from British for their colonial crimes, rather they can treat ancient Indian civilizational values and wisdom with respect and equality, rather than narrow racist inferiority. That would suffice for Indians, as we Indians are quite liberal hearted..
Bakwas. Britishers made India as a country. British colonization was one of the best things ever happened. They brought modern education, schools, university, made railways everything. Without Britishers, India wouldn't even exist as a country. In 70 years, the same leaders like Tharoor has turned country into the largest slum of the world. And look where Britishers stayed- The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc all TOP countries. Indians are taught fake history and politicians repeat the same fake history because Indians LOVE to hear that they are always the victims. This is how people rather blame 'outsiders' than asking these same politicians WHY INDIA IS A FAILED COUNTRY IN 70 YEARS WHEN INDIANS ARE RULING IT? It is sad that Britishers left India. It would have been next US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. Free education, free healthcare, cleanliness, rule of law............everything.
@@breezeanonymous6034 Teach your fucking lies to that racist european shite of an island. Fuck off english twat!
The British treat everyone one like that. Even the Americans! They have some superiority complex.
1. Whereas, Indian princes (comprising maharajahs, rajahs, nawabs and others) exploited their own subjects without heed to their troubles, gave no material, financial support and behaved haughtily and nastily (as present day Indian politicians still do) Imperial Britain provided them with pensions, 3 times a day food, clothes and official quarters and behaved with them justly, honesty and decently.
2. No wonder God wanted that Britishers come and swipe away the barbarous practices of sati (the practice of burning widows on funeral pyres), thugee (the ritualized murder of travellers as a sacrifice to Gods), prevention of cruelty to animals, gang-robbery, primitive gynecology, shunning of lwer castes (Untouchables) by all higher castes and traders, forced marriage before puberty, abolition of Slavery, Female Infanticide which is still a problem in India of 2019 (Bengal Regulation Acts of 1795 and 1804 declared murdering of female infant illegal and thus in 1870; an act was passed for the prohibition of female infanticide.), human sacrifice for good harvest, prevent cruelty to animals not to mention a hundred other big critical things along with the establishing the rule of law. British rule in India brought high standards of sanitation and public health, modern communications, the protection of minorities such as the Untouchables and Muslims from majority Hindu domination and balancing the interests of India’s numerous and competing religions and regions. Southern India's devadasi system, which 'dedicates' girls to a life of sex work in the name of religion, continues inspite of British opposition to it and despite being made illegal in 1988. In fact, under the BJP, India's capital of Delhi is a political as well as a rape capital (government statistics of 2018 prove it) and women fear to go out in Delhi and several Northern sates alone after 2000 hours.
3. India of 2019 is still similar to when in the 1800's William Wilberforce and Charles Grant said in a report, ‘the Indian Society is full of superstition, idolatry and tyranny of the priests’.
Now wonder BJP won now under Modi-Shah in the name of Hindutva.
4. Shashi Tharoor's knowledge is limited. Significantly, the British Army also protected northern India from Turks, Persians, Afghan (Afridi, Talib etc.) tribes and the Russians, while keeping the peace between Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus, who he thought might massacre each other
. Recollect how Gujarat Sarnath temples and Nalanda in Bihar were destroyed by Turks and Persians! Just remember that India was invaded through the times since the BC's.
5. Churchill predicted that were the British to leave communal massacres would happen (which is what EXACTLY happened after the British left India in 1947 and communal massacres are frequent in modern India).
6. Fact: During British Raj, the richest people in India were Indian merchants or princes, not Britons i.e. the rulers. Whereas now in present day India people get into politics to get rich.
Fistbof all Hinduism is not a religion it is a way of living . We all living in India most of us practice this sanskriti no matter what our religion is
He is refring William Durant , and could Shashi Tharoor mention tjat what Durant said about Islamic Invation Of India ????
I could be wrong, from what I remember he called it a Genocide.
was the code name of the Hyderabad "police action" in September 1948, by the then newly independent Dominion of India against Hyderabad State. It was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the Nizam-ruled princely state, annexing it into the Indian Union.
Why do you think that is a bad thing
Satnam Waheguru ji ki Jay🙏🇮🇳 Respectful Sir Very much Deep 📚 Knowledge Thanks Jay Hind 🌹🌹
You are the vivekannd of english
Victoria can never also take your interview
He should be the next president in congress and a PM................
The host is rude af. Let her ask her question!
well its a question time, not to deliver speech
@@highgate67 that point could have been said and reinforced with outmost humility, but she chose to be outrightly rude.
King of English
The books by J.Saideepk is worth reading too
45:00 why didn't Mr tharoor take that question
He very much answered that question ...for the question that was asked by the individual was followed by a different question by the lady there for the question s were on the same lines ....therefore , he decides to answer them both once both of then finished their questioning on the same matter....
Sreejith Balakrishnan you will be given Bharat Ratna for this explanation by my govt.
So from Hindi sprung Buddhism Jainism Sikism Sunnism Shia ?
An Era of Darkness / An Inglorious Empire has sold record number of hardcover copies is because the publishers haven't produced the paperback edition till now (03Jul 2019).
Why Muslim invasion should be ignored ??? Kashmir is still issue only because of Islam
@@vinaynk after Indianising they created Pakistan ... !!
Satyamev Jayate Kashmir is an issue because of the british and not because of Islam.
@@warnpassion did Britain sending militants to Kashmir today ??
@@satyamevjayate1601 Do you think religion has got anything to do with the Kashmir problem? The real reason is poverty. And guess who created poverty and sectarianism in the Indian subcontinent?
@@sudhannv4590 wiki is not something you can quote on, it is not a legitimate work, and hence cant be taken as correct source because people like you and me can write anything and it will be published on it
I sent my contribution to the wrong forum to repeat what I had said briefly was THE BRITISH MONARCHY MUST RETURN ALL TREASURES TO INDIA THAT WAS TAKEN witch ever way from INDIA with proper supervision
Tell me all the museums started by Indians in India
Tell me all the museums started by British in India
Did the Indians save the Taj mahal from ruin or was it the british?
@@donkeydesiamericanprofessor ARE you actually saying that the BRITISH has redeemed themselves for their role in destroying the INDIAN economy by opening museums in INDIAN states, or is that justification for the brutal rape of an entire continent and it`s people, please explain because I am at a total loss with your contribution..... SIR.
I don't know what there is in british history but u should do some research on google on jallianwala bagh massacre
ST is eloquent , a politician, can venerate anything or demonize anything by cherry picking! It is an art. Britishers looted yes, but economic damages are reversible , not the religious conversion happened prior to that, which led to partition. What's the price tag for that? Trillion trillion? ST don't credit Britishers for English, but thinks Nehru did it. Nehru could choose English, only because it was already there as a connecting language. Britishers placed the seed, which only grew! Pakistan and Bangla also have English without Nehru! I come from a small village, but our elementary school is now 110 yrs old. Same with college and the Highschool. I don't see many Institutions of that excellence built after the Independence. Those days mass education was not a priority among people. Only few among upper caste would go to school. Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavad Gita to English and promoted it introducing it in the juidiciary system. Even INC was initiated bt the britishers! Many many leaders were all Oxford educated. Britishers facilitated eductaion. List goes on. Our own orthodoxy was the hindrance for many many reforms, Britishers wanted to introduce! It's a shame we blame Britishers even after 75 yrs of independence. Most importantly, Britishers handed over a united India even with the partition! If not for the Britishers Pakistan would have been much bigger with a smaller India next to it, or may be like Iran, an Islamic country! Yes, Marathas expanded briefly, but lost in the 3rd panipat battle, Tippu and Nizams were expanding in the south!
In Singapore we have very few gifted orators. None of us can match Mr. Tharoor's eloquence. Maybe because our leaders talk very little and do quite a lot. We were also under Britain's rule, but got over all that long ago. Too busy cleaning, building, and maintaining the country.
Free Kashmir Demilitarisation from masculine military oppression heading for obliteration of this beautiful geographical Himalayan location seems like occupation if you use your imagination of families in despair children are shot on a daily basis to the faces obliteration, of the races this is not the solution obviously, leads to revolution too much retribution end of resolutions, harmonisation, reconciliation or peace. Always the same Partition to blame the consequences of independence .
Here we go again......
Love&light
are you saying that muslims are the root cause of every problem in india because as per you india was meant only for non muslims that is why pakistan was created based on two nation theory but still 15% of muslims are present in india, and kashmir being a muslim majority state legally belong to India, so if you want india to leave kashmir only because it is a muslim majority state then 200 million muslims should also goto pakistan or any other arab state
God bless
Currie 🤣🤣🤣 nice name
That interviewer lady is such disgusting, no manners whatsoever. Shashi Sir however so nicely smiling and taking all questions like a refined gentlemen as he is.
Why are only the Brahmins in place of controlling the conversation... ?
But Shashi Tharoor himself is a non brahmin. He is a Nair, I think.
What do you suggest? reservation on the stage?
a swag look at 43.43 to 43.52
He should have an argument with modi
Who's watching on the same place 😂😂😂😂😂😂😳😳😂😳
Shashi Tharoo does not know about truth of Buddha in India?
Sashi Tharoor is wrong. Either uneducated or a liar. Indians are fools
Expert in Kamasutra??
Take dictionary before watching Shashi tharoor 👃
Not saying "sorry", but to return all the art entities that the Brits stole and shipped off to London. Even a temple from South India which the British Museum is putting on display now in the India Hall, British Museum , thinking enough time has elapsed to make the Indian public disregardful of the theft.
Tell me all of the museums in India started by Indians
Tell me all the museums started in India by British
Who saved the Taj mahal from ruin? Indians or British
That host is soo rude and useless! Omg
It's called being modern women.
@@knightf8648 exactly 😂😂😂
What's up with the commentator? maybe not her best day...
His grammar is bad...
Are u ok lmao. Girlllllll
@@anoushkakarwal2084 I'm gay...
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SHASHI speaks and speaks but MODI makes the right noises at the right time and delivers the goods..time after time (be it in GUJARAT or in INDIA).
Khangress is new east India company.
I hope the interviewer is fired!! she is soo rude!!!
bas bas . you have come in the same level , Tharoor . and nothing more to listen to you .
He will never speak about muslim colonialism
Reconquista: Hinduism What is so significant to speak about Muslim colonialism?
Reconquista: Hinduism Do you not understand what is the context here. It is about reparations, which in other words is, related to monetary matters. Hence there was no need to type anything after the jizaya statistic, unless you're a Hindu fanatic. So I'm just going to consider your reply up till the jizaya argument.
Indeed, there were invasions from the far middle east into India like the Ashrafid dynasty and the origins of the Mughal empire. They also looted and plundered into every treasury they got their hands on after waging war against the local kingdoms. However they spent their loot, assimilated in India and adopted to the local culture, unlike what their white European imperial counterparts did, which is loot local rulers of their money through taxes, ancient artifacts, diamonds, precious stones, etc., transfer it to england, sell all of it away at a price six times than its original buy seats in the british parliament and live the rest of their lives as kings. Your argument of the economy reducing from 33% to 25% is invalid. Do you have any proof of that?
@@warnpassion
Proof is universal. India was the richest civilization , a highly developed one for 1000 years Read Oxford Scholars research Agnus Madison , economic history of India. Islamic was a barbaric civilization which was far from being great. All the contributions were plagiarisms from hindus , Greeks and Chinese.
Yes. Islamic rule was more brutal than british invasions. And its not just about India. Most of the Africa , Asia , eastern and Central Europe was looted and dominated by muslims
@@warnpassion
They did NOT assimilate into local culture. It's a myth. The examples given of this are meagre , fringe and unfounded and short lasting. Like Dara Sikoh , who was attached to hindu scriptures was killed by his own brother Aurngazeb
@@warnpassion
Read this : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_India
Gdp contribution during 1 AD - 33%
Gdp after muslim invasions 25%
Shahshi...whatever you say,,,, Indians are proud of their religion....and foreign religions like Islam and Christanity must be slowly boycotted from the Indian society,,,from minds and not the people....people who once lost their way must do homecoming/ghar wapsi
will you agree if the Islamic and christian Majority countries boycotted from their society ? i guess you should also do ghar wapsi, because according to muslims everyone is born a Muslim
How about boycotting Indians based on their religion in my country?
People are saying that people are converted to Christianity by one section of people...it's actually they volunteer to embrace other religions just because HINDU as a religion not treating them equally...best example DR.Ambedkar who embraced Buddhism!!!!!
Racist
.....Sashi is ling, narrating selectively the history.
The same way you selectively studied vocabulary.
When it comes to the Islamic invasions and atrocities this guys sees interesting and stimulating experiences but when it comes to British occupation its evil. While the people in north still carry the chip on their shoulder about the Islamic invasions this man carries a chip about the British occupation and for whatever reason he thinks he is better than the other side. Sheesh!
What about the Invasion of Aryans !!!
Eng. Anwaar Alawi - The aryan invasion only happened in your head.
Tushar Dayal - Mughals were Mughals - not Indians. They never became “us”. There were Indians who converted to a different religion after Mughals came and they continue to be the sons of soil. There may be some insignificant number of “Mughals” who remained after the infightings and wars but I bet you most of them ran to Pakistan during partition.
Go to world History and recently proof from Grave yards of Original people of region in Haryana, visit The Lallantop website, do not mind if you remain a Hindutva the Hate Bhakt.
Hindostan Zindabad !!!
@on the fence
You said it very rightly !
He is making his point that Shia-Shunni divide is because of Britishers , but he is forgetting that This phenomena became world wide !/
War b/w Saudi and Yeman , Conflict b/w Saudi and Iran , PEW research say that 80% of Sunni Mulslims of Afghanistan and Pakistan think that Shias are not true Muslims ! Just think that if most of Muslims are not ready to Accept Muslims in Minority as 'True Muslims ' , how do they have feelings for Hindus and other
Non -Muslims ????? Just think About this fact!
And
Having these true facts how can he calim that This shia Sunni divide is because of Britishers ???
And how RSS could be blamed for Hindu Muslim Divide ?
Bigotary In Muslims became very violent Social Evil , but not one has dare to speak about it !
KFC
Shashi stop your Nonsense
Almost 70 years after independence, this guy is still talking about British colonisation. It's about time that India grow-up and forget about the past... and drive it into themselves that "No One Owes them a Living"
Singapore was also once a British colony and only gained its independence in the early 60s, but today they are the envy of the world for their achievements.
OK... Singapore is a very small country, so let's take China with similar levels of progress & development around the 50s & 60s. China GDP had grown from around a few hundred dollars per capita to almost $10K, whilst India's GDP had only risen to around $2K.
www.statista.com/statistics/263775/gross-domestic-product-gdp-per-capita-in-china/
www.statista.com/statistics/263771/gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-india/
China's high-speed rails are now the envy of the world, whereas India is still using the trains left behind by the British.
his speeches and talks on this subject are driven by the apologist movements for colonial history springing up everywhere in britain at the moment
Tharoor made his points brilliantly. Wish I have a copy of his book.
One point all of India should keep in mind is that without the experience of colonialism, India would never ever ever ever become a Constitutional Republic. And thanks to Nehru for firming the foundation with Secularism.
Thanks to the British intervention (or interference) that preserved India from being Islamised.
Cultural exchange between Hindus and Muslims? Very selective. How many temples were destroyed should also be mentioned along.
Hinduism has brilliant ideas and accommodative. But it is the height of irrationality to consider animals as gods to be worshipped, such as hanuman, ganesh, cows. Superstition sanitised. Kali.
Female infanticide, child marriage, casteism, prevention of female education.
I am neither Hindu nor Muslim, but on balance if cornered, I would prefer to be in a Hindu community rather than Muslim.🙏
One fly in Tharoor's ointment is that he appeared miffed at the BJP for making triple talaq illegal... it was to empower women by leveling the playing field --- not to punish the men, as Sir T claimed.
Yes, don't legislate what happens in the bedroom between adults. Cricket and English.
What's wrong with Muslims in India? Nehru it's solely responsible for separation and 1 million Muslims killed by Hindus
Who saved the Taj mahal? Was it the British or the Hindus
Temple desecration under the Muslim rule in India was a continuation of the policy the ruling dynasties pursued in the pre-Islamic period. Hindu kings victorious in battles plundered the temples their vanquished rivals patronised, ferreted away the deities installed there, and in extreme cases, even broke them.
Sashi Tharoor it's simply wrong either uneducated or lying
Claims the British only wanted to educate an elite class brown in color but white in education
First of all the British were better educated in science medicine why wouldn't that be good for Indians, with the creation of universities in India
Secondly, Sashi Tharoor is wrong. More money was spent educating children than University students and for the first time girls could go to school
Massachusetts Institute of technology, all of Engineering in America 50% women or more
Why didn't IIT give up 50% of their classroom seats benches to women? They didn't do it. They added 20% more seats and still women are not 20% of IIT
You are Indian, you should be better educated, I am simply American
Indians today are harassing transgender and gays, why are you blaming the British for what you do?
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“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles.”
The statement above is attributed to Churchill. I cannot find it, as a speech or in a book. Although it is widely and increasingly quoted in the Indian press and, given what is happening, he seems to have been prophetic! -K.P., India
dylan thomas A quote given by one of the biggest racist, genocidal, drunkard and fat piece of shite to ever walk on this planet. There may be imperfections, but power is in the hands of people who are a thousand times better than the white imperial bastards who ruled over India for 200 years.
Edit: spelling corrections.
Just listen to yourself. I know its fashionable to blame it all on the British! This chap Tharoor has impressed everybody by his Oxford speech and even this uneducated Modi about how much the British owe us! But look at the real history of the world! We were OK 2000 years ago. But when the British came we were ruled by selfish, untrustworthy Pimps who called themselves "RULERS". every few years we had wars among ourselves. There was violence and slaughter everywhere. They connived against each other and only their few cronies and their own people prospered. Their chamchas (like the Nehru family) lived royal lives. When the British came we only had handlooms and spice industry! Just think of this - if we were that superior, we would have been going up in stature in the last 70 years instead of spiraling down. All I am saying is that "this Fay guy" predicted correctly!!!!
pooran gattu What seems to be so fashionable to you? Are arguments stating the facts and truths about India's colonial history brushed off as being fashionable? As I say again, we may have imperfections (which country is?) but we are still a thousand times better than the thieving, avaricious and murdering board of directors of the corporation that ruled over us for 100 years and the white queen, Victoria and her fucking family which ruled over us for the 90 years that followed. What was the average GDP growth during those two centuries? It was 0.01%. What is the GDP growth rate now? It is between 7 - 8% continuous for the last decade. There are many areas where we need to improve but the seeds of the problems which were left behind by the british dive and rule policy will take some time to get solved. What do you mean by 'only' the handloom and spice industry? It was the most profitable and booming industry in the medieval world, just how IT is today. It seems to me that you are an empire apologist or severely suffer from an identity crisis.
Agree with you 100% - the problem is we like to believe all the untruths about how we were exploited!! If we were good we would have discipline and fairness in everything!
Dylan Thomas we will never have the support here. We still have a population who have been taught that it is our fate to pursue the profession and the culture into which we were born in. Even today we are ruled by a well organized cast based set of rulers who will never change! Every single Ordinance that ever did India any good came from the white man and continues! Just last week the "me-too" thing has come to India! Ajso every month or two the Supreme Court of India borrows an idea out of the White man's Law Book!
Let me repeat what you just said and if you go through it I believe its more true today than ever before:“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles.”
Come off it ! You can blame the past for so much... finally, if you can’t make it work after 70 years of independence nothing will.
Owleyes firstly: deficit at the time of independence was so large that it took almost 65 years to bridge the gap. It will take another 5 years bridge the gap fully across the country(conditions apply). Second : socialism did play its part in delaying bridging the gap for 60 years.
i bet you are ignorant enough not to know basics of world history, so stop pretending as some kind of master who has seen it all. why dont you go and read about india before and after independence you racist filth
You uneducated moron
Stealing 45 trillion dollars
Leaving us in third world poverty
Your nation killing 60 million of my people
One sided unbalanced ungrateful speech from Mr.Tharoor. If the British wouldn't have developed India, India would have been worse than Africa today, as a illiterate underdeveloped poverty stricken superstitious country.
When British entered India, Indians were practising sati, low caste Indians who formed the majority of the country couldnt study, medical facilities were scarce, there was no proper justice system, there were no science and technology, no trains, no buses, no printing press, well nothing was there in India. All India had was natural resources like spices, gold, etc.
If we value India's natural resources in today's money against India's Industrial value, natural resources is a negligible fraction. So India should be grateful to the British for giving India a life in the world stage. If British didnt enter India, India today would be carrying a begging bowl before the world to feed India.
Sashi Tharoor claims that the British destroyed the Indian shipbuilding business, but look at the boats that Indian pirates were using versus the British and Portuguese man of war. And why wouldn't the British and Portuguese Navy defend their trading ships from Indian pirates. Look at the Indian maratha empire grabs and gallivat boats compared to British Portuguese trading ships and British Portuguese Navy man of war. Indians were just pirates in a tiny boat blasted out of the water by British cannons. Did you see Tom Hanks movie? Did the British Portuguese Navy lose a battle at Sea to the indians? Yes they did have you ever had roaches mice in your house? Ants? Did you ever hear of somebody dying from being stung by a swarm of bees?
Murderer Tharoor
So you remember it
Sunanda
tera baap murderer
Indian Court is not sure about it. But you seem to be quite sure
His natural simplicity does not vouch for such vulgar allegation .
Wow. I am so proud to be Brit. I must be descended from Gods. To think that my ancestors living on a small island off the coast of Europe managed to conquer a sub-continent half way round the world! We must be the master race!
Not at all. In fact, you were quite short and unsanitary. The Mughals and other European nations did most of the work for you.
@@smilee2566 Stop that right now. I will hear no ill words spoken of the Portuguese. They are our oldest allies, even if they are Catholic.
[Edit] And you don't need to bring the Mughals into it. They weren't white Europeans and so they weren't inherently evil.