08-30-2007, 03:32 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-"surinder"+-->QUOTE("surinder")<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-"Raju"+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Raju")<!--QuoteEBegin-->India's secret history: 'A holocaust, one where millions disappeared...'
Author says British reprisals involved the killing of 10m, spread over 10 years
Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi
Friday August 24, 2007
The Guardian
... British pursued a murderous decade-long campaign to wipe out millions of people who dared rise up against them.
In War of Civilisations: India AD 1857, Amaresh Misra, a writer and historian based in Mumbai, argues that there was an "untold holocaust" which caused the deaths of almost 10 million people over 10 years beginning in 1857. Britain was then the world's superpower but, says Misra, came perilously close to losing its most prized possession: India.
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For many the fact that Indian historians debate 1857 from all angles is in itself a sign of a historical maturity. "You have to see this in the context of a new, more confident India," said Jon E Wilson, lecturer in south Asian history at King's College London. "India has a new relationship with 1857. In the 40s and 50s the rebellions were seen as an embarrassment. All that fighting, when Nehru and Gandhi preached nonviolence. But today 1857 is becoming part of the Indian national story. That is a big change."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0%2C...55324%2C00.html
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Misra must be applauded for this outstanding work. Has he written a book on this topic?
All the people who hail the British for ruling India must read this. All this sham of rule of law, justice, Christian values, White man's burden.
It is interesting also to note that the new found confidence of India is being noted, probably with some regret. Which also means that the absence of Indian confidence might have been noted too, but not commented for the sake of not waking up India. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Few BR members with their reading had independently came to the conclusion that Coonial British had systematically either subdued local zamindars, chieftains and leadership with land(making them farmers/agriculturists) or killed them off by execution. This is the deep impact of the colonialism more than the famines and economic looting of India. How large was the campaign in being confirmed by Misra.
This removed many generations of leadership of India which could rally and get large scale support for nationwide resistance against the Colonial Rule.
Hence the Colonial Rule could extend to another 90 years after 1857.
Author says British reprisals involved the killing of 10m, spread over 10 years
Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi
Friday August 24, 2007
The Guardian
... British pursued a murderous decade-long campaign to wipe out millions of people who dared rise up against them.
In War of Civilisations: India AD 1857, Amaresh Misra, a writer and historian based in Mumbai, argues that there was an "untold holocaust" which caused the deaths of almost 10 million people over 10 years beginning in 1857. Britain was then the world's superpower but, says Misra, came perilously close to losing its most prized possession: India.
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For many the fact that Indian historians debate 1857 from all angles is in itself a sign of a historical maturity. "You have to see this in the context of a new, more confident India," said Jon E Wilson, lecturer in south Asian history at King's College London. "India has a new relationship with 1857. In the 40s and 50s the rebellions were seen as an embarrassment. All that fighting, when Nehru and Gandhi preached nonviolence. But today 1857 is becoming part of the Indian national story. That is a big change."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0%2C...55324%2C00.html
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Misra must be applauded for this outstanding work. Has he written a book on this topic?
All the people who hail the British for ruling India must read this. All this sham of rule of law, justice, Christian values, White man's burden.
It is interesting also to note that the new found confidence of India is being noted, probably with some regret. Which also means that the absence of Indian confidence might have been noted too, but not commented for the sake of not waking up India. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Few BR members with their reading had independently came to the conclusion that Coonial British had systematically either subdued local zamindars, chieftains and leadership with land(making them farmers/agriculturists) or killed them off by execution. This is the deep impact of the colonialism more than the famines and economic looting of India. How large was the campaign in being confirmed by Misra.
This removed many generations of leadership of India which could rally and get large scale support for nationwide resistance against the Colonial Rule.
Hence the Colonial Rule could extend to another 90 years after 1857.