Please, First Post, present news in Hindi also. You will immediately increase your listener base humongously. Let's bring First Post to every household with "India narrative".
@@rka-truthalwayswins5127 The Marathas had defeated the Mughals but maintained a figurehead Mughal Emperor in Delhi. The British exploited this power vacuum - Bengal's Nawab had been seriously weakened by the Maratha raids into Bengal in the 1740s - although Plassey was won in 1757 due to the French not having gun covers [a rainstorm occurred putting them out of action] and Clive bribed General Mir Jaffer to keep his forces from engaging in return for being made Nawab.
India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs. They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years. In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941. Many Westerners still believe the British propaganda myths, first concocted by James Mill (father of J.S. Mill) who was 2nd in Command of the EIC - that India was a Land of Eternal Poverty and Famine and the cause of this was Hinduism which had supposedly remained unchanged for 3,000 years. In truth, India had been famed for its wealth prior to British looting. The Romans complained of the Silver Drain to India in return for Indian exports. Columbus told his sponsors that he was seeking a new route to the fabled wealth and riches of India. In 1616 English ambassador Thomas Roe wrote that Delhi was the Treasury of the World. In fact it was the economic Silver Drain to India due to India's successful exports that prompted the British Conquest - taking advantage of the power vacuum that arose as the Hindu Marathas had defeated the Mughals in battle - but maintained a figurehead Mughal emperor.
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 Correct! So Palki @ First Post should have said that Mughal figure heads lead by Marathas were ruling & British fought with them to colonize India!
Amongst all colonizers of INDIA, Portugal should also be remembered who destroyed every single indigenous temple in the Indian state of Goa, build 100s of Churches, lured & force people to convert into Christianity, put taxes on Non-Christians, no land tax to newly converted Christians for 15 years & capture their land.
What a great story, Palki! And what an honor for PM Modi to be the chief guest for Bastille Day 2023. Enjoy your Sunday and we'll see you Monday! Jai Hind!
France initially tried to colonise India and even had got good hold on Indian territory. But Britishers defeated them in Carnatic wars and restricted them to Pondicherry exclave and envlave of Yanam and Karaikal and Mahe in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of India. The region is currently a Union territory and people still speak French. France is also trying to sell weapons to India and sells technology also. All thanks to France, India was able to make nukes.
They also got defeated by Marathas too in early 1750s. This was when the Nizam Salaabat Jang and his French official/general De Bussy fought a war with Peshwa Nanasaheb but they lost and were forced to come to terms with the Marathas. Later, after the defeat of French in 7 Years War(1756-63) in India and the subsequent dissolution of the French EIC in 1770. Many French were left unemployed. So many of these men(adventurers & ex-French politico-military officers) offered their services to Indian states. Many of them joined the service of Mahadji Shinde aka Shindeshahi Marathas and other Maratha states. De Boigne is the most prominent one among them. They along with other Westerners/Europeans of other nationalities, created and trained Maratha troops in Western aka European-style of warfare. But unfortunately, many of them also turned out to be traitors who defected to British EIC during the Anglo-Maratha War of 1802-06, after which the British EIC established their supremacy in India. This is what happened in case of Shinde Marathas and Bhosale Marathas. Rest is history.
There are indeed some glorious moments in the gloomy history of medieval and modern India. While France made peace with free India, the Britain continues to undermine India in different ways, starting with the partition of India to harbouring India’s fugitives.
@@cheval63sg WRONG! France still has overseas territories in the Indo-Pacific - e.g. Reunion and French Polynesia so naval coordination with India in the Indian Ocean has been a key element of the strategic partnership especially as France is not part of the Anglophone AUKUS. Even in the 18th Century the French [during the 7 Years War] fought alongside the Nawab of Bengal against the Brits at Plassey [but Robert Clive had bribed General Mir Jafar] and Napoleon gave support to Indian rulers fighting the British. Modi was given a far more lavish reception in the US Congress with over a dozen standing ovations from Republicans and Democrats as the USA sees the partnership with India as the defining relationship of the 21st Century as India returns to its traditional status as one of the top two economies in the world. BTW- The British partition of India was largely the brainchild of British Military Intelligence and not of Jinnah. The Brits wanted to keep a pro-Western entity in the Indian Subcontinent in order to maintain naval bases to protect Suez and the sea lanes to the Far Eastern colonies. See Mark Curtis' online excerpt 'Partition: Keep a Part of India@ from his 2010 book 'Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam".
I'm 200% sure France would've been nowhere near as gracious if India primarily became a French colony. As Chanakya said, the best friends are the distant ones.
@diogenetesla9046 French colonialism had some advantages but overall it was largely a net negative compared to British colonialism. France would have prevented any eduactional reforms in India, not allowed any language other than French(unless the people revolted rather than France giving up), neutered the Indian military, forced Indian banks to give preference to France and possibly prolong the existence of slavery as was the case with Cuba. Vietnam is the only French colony with better standard of life compared to the average British colony. The biggest relief for India would have been civil law.
Never knew France had colonised parts of India.😮 Wow that is some special piece of history Mrs. Palki. Again I learnt something very interesting today. Thank you. And I hope France can continue to cooperate well with India and by doing so, set the example for other countries in Europe like ours. Europe should listen more to India and think about what they are doing to Russia, instead of following Big Brother U.S. of A like a flock of sheep. Best Regards from Belgium 🇧🇪✌️🍀
Well researched documentary from Firstpost. It's indeed true that people celebrated France's WC victory. Even a big screen which is used for ads was used to stream the final match live. - A resident of Chandannagar.
Maharaja of Kapurthala used to visit France every year and spend time in Paris. He was fascinated with the French architecture. He got the government buildings and the bazaar of his State’s capital constructed with French architecture. I was on official tour to Kapurthala in 1975 and stayed in the official guest house. I mesmerized to see the architecture of the building. I took a tour of the bazaar. All shops had the same architecture.
@@OrichalcumHammer Regardless of the exact figures the British [I have lived in the UK since 1967] lie that theirs was a 'Benevolent Empire' which tried to rasie India out of poverty and 'uplift' her etc. Here is my standard comment debunking British myths: India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs. They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years. In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941. Many Westerners still believe the British propaganda myths, first concocted by James Mill (father of J.S. Mill) who was 2nd in Command of the EIC - that India was a Land of Eternal Poverty and Famine and the cause of this was Hinduism which had supposedly remained unchanged for 3,000 years. In truth, India had been famed for its wealth prior to British looting. The Romans complained of the Silver Drain to India in return for Indian exports. Columbus told his sponsors that he was seeking a new route to the fabled wealth and riches of India. In 1616 English ambassador Thomas Roe wrote that Delhi was the Treasury of the World. In fact it was the economic Silver Drain to India due to India's successful exports that prompted the British Conquest - taking advantage of the power vacuum that arose as the Hindu Marathas had defeated the Mughals in battle - but maintained a figurehead Mughal emperor.
who wouldn't. I too want to construct a barquo-styled architecture. Those domed and pillars structures including huge glass windows is so mesmerizing. But unfortunately, it will cost me fortune... ;(
There is a Pulitzer prize of journalism. Why isn't she the recipient yet even after delivering such authentic journalism. I guess it takes up courage to be this bold, transparent and an authentic journalist 🧿
U need to talk against d govt and establishment only thn u get awards in journalism.... Doesn't matter if d govt policy is good or bad .. just stand against d govt ...
Bonjour Mr Macron...Indians trust Russia a lot and the reason is Russia is most trusted , proven partner...Most of the Indians hate cheaters...So Mr President don't ever dream/ think to break the trust...After so many years of sincere efforts by both side, trust is developed ...
@@jupiter_and_its_moon4130 the way the USSR and Russia handle politics is completely different. While the USSR hinted at being sympathetic to India its successor Russia doesn't even try to pretend that it will ditch India to suit its own needs. Russia is an opportunistic country and cares only for itself, that's why it has been invading Europe.
@@theawesomeman9821 you really need to study more in this matter....Do you know about Minsk agreement ? Unkrains written assurance to Russia to be neatral, Natos' s agreement to Russia to not advance towards eastern part of dissdovlvement of Varsa pact? As for India Russia, Russia help a lot in India through it's veto power, missile making, space mission, nuclear reactors, weapons and the list is goes on...when the west refused to help India and puts various sanctions on us By the way in geopolitics every country look after it's intrest at first but sometimes the inherent racism, biased media coverage, and inherent hatred also play it's role. Some people keep basic goodness even in enemity some is backstabber in frnds disguise.
Hats off to the firstpost editing time, the slides, presentation was damn good and all on the well spot. I didn't know about the french friendly relationship with India deepen into its history. Thanks for the wonderful content.
You are doing great Job. I like your way of broadcasting the news. Just keep moving and try to ask the harder Questions to the leaders and the Institutions, which has the ability to uplift the society and People of india and to do so shape the future of india, that should be the Job of Real Broadcaster or news anchor… You are my most favourite news broadcaster. I believe in you…
Restless men and women who are lead by fear of unknown. That's the result of creating enemies all across the globe. Thanks for the history you are the best
Hey Palki, you should have Maratha Empire(1645-1950) and their relationship with the French(French India) too. There were lots of French officers and politico-military figures in Maratha armies of India in 18th century. And also in the armies of other Indian states too in 18th-19th century period. Like:- The French who served in Shinde Maratha army of Mahadji Shinde and his successor. Not just the French, there were lots of American and European officers of various nationalities in Maratha armies of the 18th and early 19th century.
Palki, please South India was never a part of the Mugul empire and so was the eastern part of the modem India aka Bengal and Bangladesh. It was the British that made today’s modern India.
Superb analysis of history of France in India, till nobody knows this facts, once again salutes madam , carry on more information about Indian territories of foreigners invasions before independence of the country. Marvellous 👍🥰🥳
According to current Equation, if there is any country who can support India's stand on having permanent seat in UNSC it's france only. We share different relationship with USA it's not clear if US will support, UK is the follower of USA. China we all know and Russia is trusted partner but it's geopolitics the economic dependency of Russia on China might make russia not to vote in favour of India. Hence in P5 countries, france is the only one who can support India indefinitely in UNSC as of now
Have just been reading Francopan’s Silk Roads book about some of this time .. “Plus a change” .. The more things change the more they stay the same. Very interesting.. thank you for these flashbacks.🌹
✊✊✊To🇮🇳🤝🇲🇫 friendship. In the new world order, this two will be one of the most outcome defining partners. And for a multipolar word to begin, world needs the friendship of🇮🇳🇲🇫.
Every day is a school day. I'm 62 years old and this is the first time I've ever heard that France got in on the plundering of India. It's never too late to learn, I suppose. However, Europe - including France - is finished. There are only two significant blocs in global affairs now - the rapidly collapsing American Empire and the ascending BRICS nations. Europe - currently about to have its life-support apparatus switched off - is completely out of the picture.
History holds wisdom, a lesson to be learned, Forgetting its teachings, mistakes will return. In the echoes of time, the past whispers clear, Remember your history, let progress appear.
We talked about France, Portugues, the Mughals, the Persians and the British but I have never heard talk about Hindu Aryans coming to India and torturing us. We are not Hindu we have our own religion according to tribals
We can not allow Modi ji/India fail.India will stand stoutly behind Modi ji to defend India.George Sores forces will be defeated.Indian people should stand behind Modi ji and ensure that NO antinational forces harm our nation's interests.
Great coverage of the colonial history of the Compagnie française. I am reading this book called "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company" which covers all the colonial history of India extensively if any of you are interested in learning more.
India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs. They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years. In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941.
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 Thanks for this summary of the horrors of the British rule. It's as if they had no conscience!! No ethics or value system of any kind!! Shame!!!🤬
@@shuchipareek4315 As I told a Brit on YT who read this text and who claimed that such things were done by all countries a couple of days ago: The GLARING point which you are overlooking is the fact that the British both in the colonial era and more recently [PM Gordon Brown and Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove - I have lived in Britain since 1967] have presented the claim of British Exceptionalism - Britains claims that it was NOT like other colonialists - that Britain was BENEVOLENT Empire that tried to lift people out of poverty and that it supposedly helped to develop them! As Jason Hickel tells us in "How Britain Stole $45 Trillion from India: And Lied About It" - the British establishment laughably claimed that it was Losing money trying to help India! The British media keeps telling us about Stalin's Holodomor in Ukraine recently - and of Mao's famine but keeps silent on the c. 3 dozen famines and Death Camps created by the British in India. When does the British media tell us of the 100 million who starved in 40 years as in Sullivan and Hickel's Dec 2022 article. In reality, the railways were actually built to transport British troops around and facilitate the export of India's resources to the seaports from the interior. They were built at India's expense to benefit British manufacturers and built even where they were not needed as the profits were guaranteed at India's expense. Do the British mention that the RAF strafed unarmed Quit India protestors in the 1920s and again in 1946 during the INA Trial protests [it was not only Nazis who did that]. In regard to the so-called 'Gospel of the English' that they brought about Equality Under the Law - LOL- See Elizabeth Kolsky's "Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law" (Cambridge UP). Right up to 1947 White Europeans were free to rape, torture and kill natives with impunity as they were allowed All-White juries in cases brought by natives against them. British doctors concoted the myth that Indians had weak spleens to excuse murder by brutal whites. The Assam 'Slave Laws' for tribals tricked into indentured labour in the Ass Tea Plantations left the tribals worse off than slaves in the Deep South USA as the latter were valued as property. The plantation owners were free to hunt them down if they left to try to protest brutality.
@@shuchipareek4315 I also sent this second response to the British person showing how he - as they always do - ignore the facts when presented with them to cover up their guilt: You show a remarkable inability to comprehend facts to pretend that every culture behaved like the British! As I stated, in 1877 Cornelius Walford showed in a Journal of Statistics article that there were 30 famines in Brit-occupied India in just 120 years. In contrast, there had been just 17 in the whole of India in the previous 2,000 years!!!! The native Hindu and the Muslim Rulers (who saw themselves as serving the native population - not a distant homeland thousand of miles away) acted to prevent and alleviate famines whereas the British profiteering and hoarding and Social Darwinist ideology created them. The same thing happened in Ireland where the British exported food whilst 1/3 of the natives starved! India's historical wealth - it was known as the Golden Bird was NOT due to colonial looting! India's great wealth was due to the fact that spices used to cost as much as gold in the medieval Mediterranean and West, India was the only source of diamonds, Wootz steel was used to make Damask swords and of course Indian textiles. The Dhaka Muslin which I mentioned cost many times the price of silk and was prized by elites worldwide - but it can no longer be made as the British eliminated such competition through brute force.
@@mudshovel290 Yes but not so simple. I am copying a couple of my responses on other threads. [1] The Marathas had defeated the Mughals but maintained a figurehead Mughal Emperor in Delhi. The British exploited this power vacuum - Bengal's Nawab had been seriously weakened by the Maratha raids into Bengal in the 1740s - although Plassey was won in 1757 due to the French not having gun covers [a rainstorm occurred putting them out of action] and Clive bribed General Mir Jaffer to keep his forces from engaging in return for being made Nawab. [2] So why did Seleucus Nikator's ambassador to Pataliputra, Megasthenes, write a book about India called Indika over 2,000 years ago! So why did the British call their State Chartered Corporation the East INDIA Company'. As Ronald Inden tells us in his 'Imagining India' - all the great powers throughout History such as the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs (Al Hind), Chinese etc. viewed India [as with China] as a unitary entity even though it may not have been politically united at the time. The Medieval Arabs called Mathematics Hindsat (Art of the Indians) as most so-called Modern Maths (Modern Arithmetic, Modern Algebra, Trigonometry and even Calculus originated in Ancient India_ - see Prof. Chritsian Yates' 'Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World with Maths'. Even in the time of the Buddha - before the Mauryan Conquest of the subcontinent - the concept of Bharat - the great peninsula to the South of the Himalayas was in existence. In the 8th Century c.e. the great Advaitin Sankara completed his philosophical Conquest of the Quarters - setting up his missions in the North, South, East and West of Bharat and returning India to Hinduism after nearly a thousand years of Buddhist dominance. Most of the imperial rulers of North India dreamt of a new military Conquest of the Quarters to re-establish the unity as under the Mauryans. In the 19th Century, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and later in the early 20th Century Aurobindo Ghose developed the notion of Bharat Mata - Mother India! The concept of Bharat/India has existed for two and a half thousand years [just as 'China' was only united periodically and mostly disunited over the last 2,500 years]! Aristoxenus the Musician, a pupil of Aristotle and Diogenes Laertius - who lived at the time of Plato in Athens - tell the story of Socrates meeting with an INDIAN! They do not refer to specific kingdoms or regions - all the people of the Subcontinent/Bharat were known in the Ancient Mediterranean as INDIANS. Note that the Ancient Greeks [a united Greece did not exist until the Philip of Macedon [considered a barbarian by the Hellenes] conquered all the peninsula] are also called Greeks even though they may have lived in Egypt, Ionia (now in Turkey), South Italy or Sicily etc.
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In geopolitics there is no friend, it is all national interest.
Please, First Post, present news in Hindi also. You will immediately increase your listener base humongously.
Let's bring First Post to every household with "India narrative".
Frankly speaking today I completely learned why INDIA-FRANCE ties are so strong (including deep history )
"If you forget your history, you will repeat the past mistakes"
That means for not repeating history you must remember your history 🧐
Search Jason Hickel India for some amazing facts about the British occupation of India.
Most Indians suck at history as only colonial, distorted history is taught in schools!!
@@HarshitaJain-bc8ed Learning from past experiences is the most common and sensible act any human can do to not ditch himself into the hole.
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As the anchor said, France is probably the most reliable partner in Europe 🇫🇷 🤝 🇮🇳
In Africa we know who France is. The spirit behind France is wickedness on rampage
Wow! Thanks for a light on the history!
These history lessons are great! 👍
Search Jason Hickel India for some amazing facts about the British occupation of India.
Weren't the Mughals mostly defeated by the Marathas by the time the British entered India though..??!!
@@rka-truthalwayswins5127 The Marathas had defeated the Mughals but maintained a figurehead Mughal Emperor in Delhi. The British exploited this power vacuum - Bengal's Nawab had been seriously weakened by the Maratha raids into Bengal in the 1740s - although Plassey was won in 1757 due to the French not having gun covers [a rainstorm occurred putting them out of action] and Clive bribed General Mir Jaffer to keep his forces from engaging in return for being made Nawab.
India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs.
They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years.
In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941.
Many Westerners still believe the British propaganda myths, first concocted by James Mill (father of J.S. Mill) who was 2nd in Command of the EIC - that India was a Land of Eternal Poverty and Famine and the cause of this was Hinduism which had supposedly remained unchanged for 3,000 years. In truth, India had been famed for its wealth prior to British looting. The Romans complained of the Silver Drain to India in return for Indian exports. Columbus told his sponsors that he was seeking a new route to the fabled wealth and riches of India. In 1616 English ambassador Thomas Roe wrote that Delhi was the Treasury of the World. In fact it was the economic Silver Drain to India due to India's successful exports that prompted the British Conquest - taking advantage of the power vacuum that arose as the Hindu Marathas had defeated the Mughals in battle - but maintained a figurehead Mughal emperor.
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 Correct! So Palki @ First Post should have said that Mughal figure heads lead by Marathas were ruling & British fought with them to colonize India!
Thank you Palki .. the insights and perspectives are great
Amongst all colonizers of INDIA, Portugal should also be remembered who destroyed every single indigenous temple in the Indian state of Goa, build 100s of Churches, lured & force people to convert into Christianity, put taxes on Non-Christians, no land tax to newly converted Christians for 15 years & capture their land.
don't forget the dutchs, they also attacked temples in kerala
Correct
you are the best dear in explaining history
What a great story, Palki! And what an honor for PM Modi to be the chief guest for Bastille Day 2023. Enjoy your Sunday and we'll see you Monday! Jai Hind!
France initially tried to colonise India and even had got good hold on Indian territory.
But Britishers defeated them in Carnatic wars and restricted them to Pondicherry exclave and envlave of Yanam and Karaikal and Mahe in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of India. The region is currently a Union territory and people still speak French.
France is also trying to sell weapons to India and sells technology also.
All thanks to France, India was able to make nukes.
They also got defeated by Marathas too in early 1750s. This was when the Nizam Salaabat Jang and his French official/general De Bussy fought a war with Peshwa Nanasaheb but they lost and were forced to come to terms with the Marathas.
Later, after the defeat of French in 7 Years War(1756-63) in India and the subsequent dissolution of the French EIC in 1770. Many French were left unemployed. So many of these men(adventurers & ex-French politico-military officers) offered their services to Indian states. Many of them joined the service of Mahadji Shinde aka Shindeshahi Marathas and other Maratha states. De Boigne is the most prominent one among them. They along with other Westerners/Europeans of other nationalities, created and trained Maratha troops in Western aka European-style of warfare. But unfortunately, many of them also turned out to be traitors who defected to British EIC during the Anglo-Maratha War of 1802-06, after which the British EIC established their supremacy in India. This is what happened in case of Shinde Marathas and Bhosale Marathas. Rest is history.
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India made nukes on its own, when no other country offered help
Check Wiki
Pls do not take away our dear glory
@@dvdgbgdfnhbg France ne hi help Kiya tha Uranium ke liye. USA me nhi Diya toh France ne de Diya tha. Video dekh le.
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How wonderfully is history being looked back at❤
Never thought that she will talk about that beautiful place ❤❤❤...
Indian culture, business and military is certainly a big thing in the French mind. France sees India as one of their key allies anywhere in the world.
There are indeed some glorious moments in the gloomy history of medieval and modern India. While France made peace with free India, the Britain continues to undermine India in different ways, starting with the partition of India to harbouring India’s fugitives.
Search Jason Hickel India for some amazing facts about the British occupation of India.
french are eyeing india's pocket. nothing else.
@@cheval63sg WRONG! France still has overseas territories in the Indo-Pacific - e.g. Reunion and French Polynesia so naval coordination with India in the Indian Ocean has been a key element of the strategic partnership especially as France is not part of the Anglophone AUKUS. Even in the 18th Century the French [during the 7 Years War] fought alongside the Nawab of Bengal against the Brits at Plassey [but Robert Clive had bribed General Mir Jafar] and Napoleon gave support to Indian rulers fighting the British.
Modi was given a far more lavish reception in the US Congress with over a dozen standing ovations from Republicans and Democrats as the USA sees the partnership with India as the defining relationship of the 21st Century as India returns to its traditional status as one of the top two economies in the world.
BTW- The British partition of India was largely the brainchild of British Military Intelligence and not of Jinnah. The Brits wanted to keep a pro-Western entity in the Indian Subcontinent in order to maintain naval bases to protect Suez and the sea lanes to the Far Eastern colonies. See Mark Curtis' online excerpt 'Partition: Keep a Part of India@ from his 2010 book 'Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam".
France share's so many common thing with development of India. It is always good too have a better social tie-ups and mutual agreements.
Palki works for india and not for news channels… love ur work…
Thank you Ms. Palki. Shubhamastu. Yashaswibhava.
I'm 200% sure France would've been nowhere near as gracious if India primarily became a French colony. As Chanakya said, the best friends are the distant ones.
@diogenetesla9046 French colonialism had some advantages but overall it was largely a net negative compared to British colonialism. France would have prevented any eduactional reforms in India, not allowed any language other than French(unless the people revolted rather than France giving up), neutered the Indian military, forced Indian banks to give preference to France and possibly prolong the existence of slavery as was the case with Cuba. Vietnam is the only French colony with better standard of life compared to the average British colony. The biggest relief for India would have been civil law.
Can anyone beat Palki for short and crisp journalism?
The amazing journalist. 🙏🙏
Barkha the beauty 😊
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Never knew France had colonised parts of India.😮 Wow that is some special piece of history Mrs. Palki. Again I learnt something very interesting today. Thank you. And I hope France can continue to cooperate well with India and by doing so, set the example for other countries in Europe like ours. Europe should listen more to India and think about what they are doing to Russia, instead of following Big Brother U.S. of A like a flock of sheep. Best Regards from Belgium 🇧🇪✌️🍀
God Bless India And France Friendship
Be proud Indians . This is our moment of glory !!
India back to its charm !!
Never let our country down for few bucks !! Never again !!
I really feel anxious when countries like Uk ,France, USA show friendly gestures that means they were cooking something behind ur back....
As Arya Stark would say-
INDIA Remembers (Both Friends and Foe😄)
Will it pay it's debts like the Lanisters? All it won't do is say "Dracarys" even when needed.
Wow! Ms. Palki is our Ms. Universe India in the news media. Thank you for always being amazingly, elegantly beautiful🎉❤🎉🙏🙏🙏
Hero worship of Modi over now heroine worship😂
Well researched documentary from Firstpost. It's indeed true that people celebrated France's WC victory. Even a big screen which is used for ads was used to stream the final match live.
- A resident of Chandannagar.
I love my digital India 🇮🇳
Its a complete turnaround. Once a colonized and then a colonizer are shaking hands today as equals. India has come a long way.
Good to know so much about it. Thanks indeed.🙏
I'm from chinsura neighbor of chandannagar..
Vande Mataram song written by bamkimchandra in my town. 😊
❤ Congratulations 🌟🌟
Great Analysis 👍👍
Jay Ho Palkiji
Long live France 🇫🇷 India 🇮🇳 friendship ❤
Maharaja of Kapurthala used to visit France every year and spend time in Paris. He was fascinated with the French architecture. He got the government buildings and the bazaar of his State’s capital constructed with French architecture. I was on official tour to Kapurthala in 1975 and stayed in the official guest house. I mesmerized to see the architecture of the building. I took a tour of the bazaar. All shops had the same architecture.
Search Jason Hickel India for some amazing facts about the British occupation of India.
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 Those data and number need proper textual backed evidence and not speculative calculations.
@@OrichalcumHammer Regardless of the exact figures the British [I have lived in the UK since 1967] lie that theirs was a 'Benevolent Empire' which tried to rasie India out of poverty and 'uplift' her etc.
Here is my standard comment debunking British myths:
India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs.
They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years.
In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941.
Many Westerners still believe the British propaganda myths, first concocted by James Mill (father of J.S. Mill) who was 2nd in Command of the EIC - that India was a Land of Eternal Poverty and Famine and the cause of this was Hinduism which had supposedly remained unchanged for 3,000 years. In truth, India had been famed for its wealth prior to British looting. The Romans complained of the Silver Drain to India in return for Indian exports. Columbus told his sponsors that he was seeking a new route to the fabled wealth and riches of India. In 1616 English ambassador Thomas Roe wrote that Delhi was the Treasury of the World. In fact it was the economic Silver Drain to India due to India's successful exports that prompted the British Conquest - taking advantage of the power vacuum that arose as the Hindu Marathas had defeated the Mughals in battle - but maintained a figurehead Mughal emperor.
who wouldn't. I too want to construct a barquo-styled architecture. Those domed and pillars structures including huge glass windows is so mesmerizing. But unfortunately, it will cost me fortune... ;(
There is a Pulitzer prize of journalism. Why isn't she the recipient yet even after delivering such authentic journalism. I guess it takes up courage to be this bold, transparent and an authentic journalist 🧿
U need to talk against d govt and establishment only thn u get awards in journalism.... Doesn't matter if d govt policy is good or bad .. just stand against d govt ...
Love from Dallas Texas USA 🇺🇸
India needs to focus on being self sufficient I am sure that agenda of make in India is a start.
Thankyou Palki this is a good lesson through history and makes me all the more hopeful of better ties between the two countries. God bless
Really appreciate the Team to bring up this history-story well fabricated.
Modi ji, Best PM ... India's image is best on international stage after 2014
Bonjour Mr Macron...Indians trust Russia a lot and the reason is Russia is most trusted , proven partner...Most of the Indians hate cheaters...So Mr President don't ever dream/ think to break the trust...After so many years of sincere efforts by both side, trust is developed ...
I think you are confusing Russia with the USSR
Russia is successor and they too were reliable
@@theawesomeman9821It's not only USSR, it's Russia also, you need to study more. And Russia is a successor of USSR so saying it's different is funny.
@@jupiter_and_its_moon4130 the way the USSR and Russia handle politics is completely different. While the USSR hinted at being sympathetic to India its successor Russia doesn't even try to pretend that it will ditch India to suit its own needs. Russia is an opportunistic country and cares only for itself, that's why it has been invading Europe.
@@theawesomeman9821 you really need to study more in this matter....Do you know about Minsk agreement ? Unkrains written assurance to Russia to be neatral, Natos' s agreement to Russia to not advance towards eastern part of dissdovlvement of Varsa pact?
As for India Russia, Russia help a lot in India through it's veto power, missile making, space mission, nuclear reactors, weapons and the list is goes on...when the west refused to help India and puts various sanctions on us
By the way in geopolitics every country look after it's intrest at first but sometimes the inherent racism, biased media coverage, and inherent hatred also play it's role.
Some people keep basic goodness even in enemity some is backstabber in frnds disguise.
Thanks for information Palki sister🙏🏼🪴👍
Babe, what an outstanding presentation. Thank you
❤ From Mauritius
Hats off to the firstpost editing time, the slides, presentation was damn good and all on the well spot. I didn't know about the french friendly relationship with India deepen into its history. Thanks for the wonderful content.
I am Chandannagar in district of Hooghly in West Bengal...it my City....🇮🇳🇮🇳
Palki Sharma makes news always interesting. Thanks to her
Modi has truly become Vasco de Gama. Only world tour and monologue called the 'maan ki baat'.
Long live India France relationship and friendship from Pakistan 🙂. Best regards from Pakistan 🙂
Economy make good friends as well as worst enemy. Those who use it skillfully becomes successful.
Palki’s French pronunciation ❤
You are doing great Job. I like your way of broadcasting the news.
Just keep moving and try to ask the harder Questions to the leaders and the Institutions, which has the ability to uplift the society and People of india and to do so shape the future of india, that should be the Job of Real Broadcaster or news anchor…
You are my most favourite news broadcaster.
I believe in you…
Most Indians are unaware about the "New" East India company.
US?
Restless men and women who are lead by fear of unknown. That's the result of creating enemies all across the globe. Thanks for the history you are the best
Excellent Research and Simple explanation
Short, Sweet and Impactful, well presented Lady Palki ❤🇮🇳❤🇫🇷
So previous governments too responsible for good relations with France. Music to the ears listening to this from the media😊
Everyone worldwide needs to cast off the former colony mindset , nearly every area went through this
Not Europe.
Love from Chandannagar❤
India pls be careful bcz friendship of these nation is like having an enemy in ur backyard......
Hey Palki, you should have Maratha Empire(1645-1950) and their relationship with the French(French India) too.
There were lots of French officers and politico-military figures in Maratha armies of India in 18th century. And also in the armies of other Indian states too in 18th-19th century period. Like:- The French who served in Shinde Maratha army of Mahadji Shinde and his successor.
Not just the French, there were lots of American and European officers of various nationalities in Maratha armies of the 18th and early 19th century.
Let's recognize the immensely incredible French pronunciation by palki! 🖤
I'm a Pondicherian.. You call her French pronunciation as incredible, my goodness.. Her French pronunciation is worst..
Very nice piece of history linking to present. Well done Palki and team
JAI Hind
Ma'am you are simply awesome...10yrs back from now,we use to see this type of Journalism by some western Media but now it seems table has turned...
Our media was always better than the present. Very good documentaries were made, even enjoyed them on B&W TV.
wishing all the medias and the hard working artists - a very very happy day 😐😐😐
Palki, please South India was never a part of the Mugul empire and so was the eastern part of the modem India aka Bengal and Bangladesh. It was the British that made today’s modern India.
Superb analysis of history of France in India, till nobody knows this facts, once again salutes madam , carry on more information about Indian territories of foreigners invasions before independence of the country. Marvellous 👍🥰🥳
I am an UPSC aspirant and your content helps us a lot
The so called upsc dedicated channels explain the same content in 30 mins.
Keep the good work on
Nicely compiled!
Nice post. I feel France and Russia are the two countries who have always stood by us during our difficult times post independence. 👍
Vive la France! 🇫🇷
Jai Hind! 🇮🇳
What a research...Palki and Firstpost ❤informative video😊❤
According to current Equation, if there is any country who can support India's stand on having permanent seat in UNSC it's france only. We share different relationship with USA it's not clear if US will support, UK is the follower of USA. China we all know and Russia is trusted partner but it's geopolitics the economic dependency of Russia on China might make russia not to vote in favour of India. Hence in P5 countries, france is the only one who can support India indefinitely in UNSC as of now
r u living undr d rock... its only chaina who's blockin.. india will never get a p. seat unless un is recreated after a war
I love these flashbacks. Thank you Palki Sharma.
You still have " foreigners only" places in Puducherry. And auroville is litteraly racist against indians !
All because of Aurobindo was cheap men who stole / OCCUPIED our Pondicherry. French are not racist. Bengalis are like that.
Have just been reading Francopan’s Silk Roads book about some of this time .. “Plus a change” .. The more things change the more they stay the same. Very interesting.. thank you for these flashbacks.🌹
Such a beautiful woman 😊
Palki mam ❤ my state Kerala in Mahi Franch colani,chep price likker and petrol 😊😊😊
Superb analytical reporting.
One who knows the basic English can easily get to know the updates from Palki sister❤
Love from Chandannagar❤❤......
✊✊✊To🇮🇳🤝🇲🇫 friendship. In the new world order, this two will be one of the most outcome defining partners. And for a multipolar word to begin, world needs the friendship of🇮🇳🇲🇫.
Hell noo
Every day is a school day.
I'm 62 years old and this is the first time I've ever heard that France got in on the plundering of India.
It's never too late to learn, I suppose.
However, Europe - including France - is finished. There are only two significant blocs in global affairs now - the rapidly collapsing American Empire and the ascending BRICS nations. Europe - currently about to have its life-support apparatus switched off - is completely out of the picture.
Nice joke😂
Great history lesson Palki. Never knew about some of the things you mentioned.
History holds wisdom, a lesson to be learned,
Forgetting its teachings, mistakes will return.
In the echoes of time, the past whispers clear,
Remember your history, let progress appear.
A small correction, French EIC got permission from Sultan of Bijapur in the year 1673*. Merci beaucoup Madame!!
French soldiers were mercenaries in Maratha Army.
Yes they are better than USA
Another piece! Thank you !
Western countries still got mentality of colonialism. Don’t be ignorant if you are it at your peril.
Excellent Post.👍Thank you Palki😊
we can belive france to certain level compared to other EU and US. But indigenous is all sector is the way to have peace in our hands.
JUST LOVEEEEEEEE FLASHBACK !!!!
It would be interesting to see how PRIME MINISTER MODI IS THE WELCOME AS HE RECEIVED IN USA AND WHAT BILATERAL ECONOMIC TIES ARE DONE
We talked about France, Portugues, the Mughals, the Persians and the British but I have never heard talk about Hindu Aryans coming to India and torturing us. We are not Hindu we have our own religion according to tribals
Aryan Picnic Theory 😅
We can not allow Modi ji/India fail.India will stand stoutly behind Modi ji to defend India.George Sores forces will be defeated.Indian people should stand behind Modi ji and ensure that NO antinational forces harm our nation's interests.
Thanks Palki
Palki is the best..
India always has good history
Great coverage of the colonial history of the Compagnie française. I am reading this book called "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company" which covers all the colonial history of India extensively if any of you are interested in learning more.
India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs.
They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years.
In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941.
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 Thanks for this summary of the horrors of the British rule. It's as if they had no conscience!! No ethics or value system of any kind!! Shame!!!🤬
@@shuchipareek4315 As I told a Brit on YT who read this text and who claimed that such things were done by all countries a couple of days ago:
The GLARING point which you are overlooking is the fact that the British both in the colonial era and more recently [PM Gordon Brown and Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove - I have lived in Britain since 1967] have presented the claim of British Exceptionalism - Britains claims that it was NOT like other colonialists - that Britain was BENEVOLENT Empire that tried to lift people out of poverty and that it supposedly helped to develop them!
As Jason Hickel tells us in "How Britain Stole $45 Trillion from India: And Lied About It" - the British establishment laughably claimed that it was Losing money trying to help India! The British media keeps telling us about Stalin's Holodomor in Ukraine recently - and of Mao's famine but keeps silent on the c. 3 dozen famines and Death Camps created by the British in India. When does the British media tell us of the 100 million who starved in 40 years as in Sullivan and Hickel's Dec 2022 article.
In reality, the railways were actually built to transport British troops around and facilitate the export of India's resources to the seaports from the interior. They were built at India's expense to benefit British manufacturers and built even where they were not needed as the profits were guaranteed at India's expense. Do the British mention that the RAF strafed unarmed Quit India protestors in the 1920s and again in 1946 during the INA Trial protests [it was not only Nazis who did that].
In regard to the so-called 'Gospel of the English' that they brought about Equality Under the Law - LOL- See Elizabeth Kolsky's "Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law" (Cambridge UP). Right up to 1947 White Europeans were free to rape, torture and kill natives with impunity as they were allowed All-White juries in cases brought by natives against them. British doctors concoted the myth that Indians had weak spleens to excuse murder by brutal whites. The Assam 'Slave Laws' for tribals tricked into indentured labour in the Ass Tea Plantations left the tribals worse off than slaves in the Deep South USA as the latter were valued as property. The plantation owners were free to hunt them down if they left to try to protest brutality.
@@shuchipareek4315 I also sent this second response to the British person showing how he - as they always do - ignore the facts when presented with them to cover up their guilt:
You show a remarkable inability to comprehend facts to pretend that every culture behaved like the British! As I stated, in 1877 Cornelius Walford showed in a Journal of Statistics article that there were 30 famines in Brit-occupied India in just 120 years. In contrast, there had been just 17 in the whole of India in the previous 2,000 years!!!!
The native Hindu and the Muslim Rulers (who saw themselves as serving the native population - not a distant homeland thousand of miles away) acted to prevent and alleviate famines whereas the British profiteering and hoarding and Social Darwinist ideology created them. The same thing happened in Ireland where the British exported food whilst 1/3 of the natives starved!
India's historical wealth - it was known as the Golden Bird was NOT due to colonial looting! India's great wealth was due to the fact that spices used to cost as much as gold in the medieval Mediterranean and West, India was the only source of diamonds, Wootz steel was used to make Damask swords and of course Indian textiles. The Dhaka Muslin which I mentioned cost many times the price of silk and was prized by elites worldwide - but it can no longer be made as the British eliminated such competition through brute force.
@@mudshovel290 Yes but not so simple. I am copying a couple of my responses on other threads.
[1] The Marathas had defeated the Mughals but maintained a figurehead Mughal Emperor in Delhi. The British exploited this power vacuum - Bengal's Nawab had been seriously weakened by the Maratha raids into Bengal in the 1740s - although Plassey was won in 1757 due to the French not having gun covers [a rainstorm occurred putting them out of action] and Clive bribed General Mir Jaffer to keep his forces from engaging in return for being made Nawab.
[2] So why did Seleucus Nikator's ambassador to Pataliputra, Megasthenes, write a book about India called Indika over 2,000 years ago! So why did the British call their State Chartered Corporation the East INDIA Company'. As Ronald Inden tells us in his 'Imagining India' - all the great powers throughout History such as the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs (Al Hind), Chinese etc. viewed India [as with China] as a unitary entity even though it may not have been politically united at the time. The Medieval Arabs called Mathematics Hindsat (Art of the Indians) as most so-called Modern Maths (Modern Arithmetic, Modern Algebra, Trigonometry and even Calculus originated in Ancient India_ - see Prof. Chritsian Yates' 'Five Ways Ancient India Changed the World with Maths'.
Even in the time of the Buddha - before the Mauryan Conquest of the subcontinent - the concept of Bharat - the great peninsula to the South of the Himalayas was in existence. In the 8th Century c.e. the great Advaitin Sankara completed his philosophical Conquest of the Quarters - setting up his missions in the North, South, East and West of Bharat and returning India to Hinduism after nearly a thousand years of Buddhist dominance.
Most of the imperial rulers of North India dreamt of a new military Conquest of the Quarters to re-establish the unity as under the Mauryans. In the 19th Century, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and later in the early 20th Century Aurobindo Ghose developed the notion of Bharat Mata - Mother India! The concept of Bharat/India has existed for two and a half thousand years [just as 'China' was only united periodically and mostly disunited over the last 2,500 years]!
Aristoxenus the Musician, a pupil of Aristotle and Diogenes Laertius - who lived at the time of Plato in Athens - tell the story of Socrates meeting with an INDIAN! They do not refer to specific kingdoms or regions - all the people of the Subcontinent/Bharat were known in the Ancient Mediterranean as INDIANS.
Note that the Ancient Greeks [a united Greece did not exist until the Philip of Macedon [considered a barbarian by the Hellenes] conquered all the peninsula] are also called Greeks even though they may have lived in Egypt, Ionia (now in Turkey), South Italy or Sicily etc.