Our History?

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Re: Our History?

@hanibal

I don’t know if the number is true, it look bit exaggerated though… I mean India’s total population was around 200 million in early 1900s.

If you want to look into it, lets take Province of Bengal for instance, it was among richest and was first target of Brits, they did founded city of Calcutta but where did the trade centers of Bengal dissappear? And their population?

One good point is to read william dalrymple’s The Last Mughals which describes the 1857 from chronicles and dispatches. what english did to the sub continent was quite systematic. The sub-continent was used to support their wars (with money and men) for world wars. (and it was never acknowledged like its done for others e.g. AZNAC day etc.)
the other point is
Viewpoint: Britain must pay reparations to India - BBC News

and for 1857, the british were mostly taken aback by the uprising and were hanging by a thread until reinforcements reached from PUNJAB, that includes sikhs and muslim tiwana’s, qureshis’ and makhdooms and wat not.

but then again its history. The world belongs to the powerful ones, do they need justification? i don’t think so. because power is itself a justification of their actions. I don’t think we can put it in context of any logic.