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Wait til you hear what they did to Bengal, one of the richest places in the world when they arrived. Today it’s Bangladesh.
by Synaesthesia 5y ago
Wait til you hear what they did to Bengal, one of the richest places in the world when they arrived. Today it’s Bangladesh.
- hermitcrab 5y agoI guess that is what happens when you let a private corporation (The East India Company) run a sub-continent for profit with its own army. At least Google and Facebook don't have their own armies (yet)!
- rbg246 5y agoA private corporation committing atrocities is still the country or empire that sets the rules. It's still British people carrying out / orchestrating the violence.
- hermitcrab 5y agoI'm not excusing Britain in any way for allowing the East India Company to behave as it did. I believe many of the British ruling class were shareholders and benefitted directly from its depredations.
- rbg246 5y agoNo absolutely, sorry if I sounded that way. I certainly was not saying you were excusing, just adding an addendum to your comment.
- hermitcrab 5y agoAlso, in the British tradition of 'divide and rule' they would generally get local people to do a lot of the dirty work.
- unmole 5y agoToday it's split between the Indian state of West Bengal and Bangladesh.