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The Raj, as anyone in modern Britain can tell you, is still considered the 'jewel in the crown' of British colonial achievement, but how many of us Britons are able to explain why?
Consequently, such belief requires an unquestioning leap of faith. Startlingly though, this rose-tinted analysis is not shared by the Indian subcontinent, whose national archives tell a very different history under British rule.
As Britain's Indian Empire was always its...
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The Raj is considered the jewel in the crown of British colonial achievement. Startlingly, this rose-tinted view is not shared by the Indian subcontinent. The national archives of India tell of a very different history under British control; a history which is well documented in its public records and similarly well covered by the nation's historians. When the Great Famine swept across India, the population perished in their millions. But to what...
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A storm that has been brewing in a tea cup has recently been gathering pace.
Was Britain a net gain for India or nothing more than a net drain? The question has led to calls for Britain to pay reparations to her colonies, and no colony supplied more than her Indian Empire. But to what extent was Britain a burden and to what extent, if one dare ask, was she a blessing for the Indian people?
Viceroy Lord Curzon was adamant that the British had arrived...
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