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Tell that to the academics whose full time job is to whitewash India's colonizers (Hoover institution comes to mind).
by thrweo234324 6y ago
Tell that to the academics whose full time job is to whitewash India's colonizers (Hoover institution comes to mind).
- noneeeed 6y agoI've been reading William DAlhrymple's "The Anarchy", which is a history of the East India Company and how it was pretty much responsible for the initial colonization of India. The simple fact that the colonization started with a commercial organization progressing from trade to flat-out military takeover really should put the lie to claims that the imperial project was somehow done to spread "civilisation". Unfortunately, far too many of my compatriots have a ridiculously rose tinted view of the imperial project. From what I've encountered, it's something shared across most of the old imperial european countries, a view of their imperial periods as some kind of "greatness", rather than just greed and violence. Fun fact: Along with all the wealth the pirates of the EIC bought back with the from India they alo bought the word "loot" which originates in Hindi apprantly.