Shashi Tharoor talks empire at Kalam 2017
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2017
- An Era of Darkness: Shashi Tharoor on the cost of Empire that India had to bear. In conversation with Sugata Bose. Day one, January 25, Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
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Could you please upload the session featuring Tabish Khair? Thank you!
Convert the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata as a Museum of Loot to showcase 😂👍
What should we do about it? People come and loot India, go back and live lavish life!
ram chuha is nehruvian propagandist
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.
Muslin textiles (muslin was 26 times more expensive than the best silk in the world at the time) from Bengal other textiles industries originating in India and being traded as far back as the Roman Empire. Sacked due to heavy taxation and other atrocities and not from invention of the cotton mill. This particular textile would’ve still existed today.
Wootz steel - Damascus swords were made from Indian made Wootz which even the English marked as remarkable. It was first produced around 1-4 CE and it’s taken almost a 1000 years to make anything of that quality.
Ship building industry in India which died due to heavy taxation and other beauracracy - remarkable ships were built which lasted over 20 years compared to European ships.
Invention of zero, cataract surgery, Ayurvedic medicine from India.
Buttons on your shirt come from India, so does shampoo.
Worlds first civilisation was in India - Indus Valley civilisation.
Caste system yes oppressive was still fluid and was mainly intended as a functional aspect of society. There’s many lower castes that have been crowned as kings. Under British rule it is not rigid.
We did not have any problems with homosexuality we do now after as soon as states turned Victorian. Not to mention the sexual shame that was brought with it. Goes against the character of a subcontinent where the Kama sutra originated.
Sati - mainly an act of love and though supposed to be performed voluntarily ended up taking an evil turn. It was first abolished by Akbar in 1580’s then Aurangzeb in the late 1670’s and finally in 1839 by lord bentick mainly due to the efforts of Indian - Raja ram Mohan Roy who founded the Brahmo samaj.
We didn’t just have natural resources, we had and still have an industriousness.
EIC’s conquest of India too was from help of Indian bankers which were handling more money than the Bank of England at the time. Jagat seths look them up.
The railways unfortunately were a scam and built with forced steel imports from England to support your so called industrial revolution.
Thanks for the education system though - having studied in India I can tell you it’s the least practical form of education.
Your pride is our fault. We as the entire subcontinent literally gave each part out to the brits either by fighting squarely or by siding with them to protect selfish interests without seeing the bigger picture.
An island country with 2% GDP does not take over a subcontinent with 22% GDP without weaknesses and inside help.
Yes we had our weaknesses but even historians that support the Raj agree that India did not need the British.