Miscellaneous Topics on Indian History

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I must say he had the bloody gall. First you do everything in your power to make a country poor (including innumerable famines) and then remark the poverty is stupefying.

Why in heavens name a britisher should ever be surprised at the poverty of india is stupefying to me. The rise in the number of castles and estates and manors in Victorian england is directly proportional to the rise in poverty in india