Talk:A Few Facts about British Rule in India
Basically the whole idea of India seething with anger against the British is only a facade spread by modern Indian education and by the media giants of India. British rule was the best thing that could have happened to India, and for that matter for any nation in the world. I would invite reader to read the following of my write up in this regard.
Refining India! Brutalising England
On friendship and Asian languages; and other things!
What is repulsive about Indians?
The British officials in India were doing a great job, of protecting the suppressed classes from the fiendish oppression of their class and caste overlords. The stay-at-home Britons could not understand this, and simply handed over this huge land mass to a lot of crooked monkeys, who make money and send their own children to England and other English nations.
Why is this here?
[edit]This Ved person seems to be promoting himself and his views here on the discussion page. Is this allowed under Wikipedia's rules? Frankly his views seem to be extremely provoking and offensive. They are probably unfounded as well...
If its against the rules and does not contribute any true unbiased facts to the topic it should be removed.
The Myth of a Benign Imperialism
[edit]George Monbiot in The Guardian, Monday 23 April 2012 reporting on British suppression and concealment of records of its imperial atrocities:
"The story of benign imperialism, whose overriding purpose was not to seize land, labour and commodities but to teach the natives English, table manners and double-entry book-keeping, is a myth that has been carefully propagated. Last week's revelations, that the British government systematically destroyed the documents detailing mistreatment of its colonial subjects, and that the Foreign Office then lied about a secret cache of files … was ignored by … the British press. Suppression of evidence was scarcely necessary. Even when the documentation of great crimes is abundant, it is … simply ignored. In an article for the Daily Mail in 2010, for example, the historian Dominic Sandbrook announced that "Britain's empire stands out as a beacon of tolerance, decency and the rule of law … Nor did Britain countenance anything like the dreadful tortures committed in French Algeria." Could he really have been unaware of the history he is disavowing?"
The myth of a “benign imperialism” suggests that there were no adverse effects on development of the colonies even though millions of pounds of resources were siphoned off yearly, and entire populations virtually enslaved to serve imperialist aims.
potential source
[edit]Found a facsimile of the document here. There's an indirect DjVu download, don't have time now to figure out how to get the constituent parts from that to make one bundled DjVu for our purposes. Prosody (talk) 00:10, 3 July 2014 (UTC)