Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Good effects of British rule in India [Re: venky] #26362 - 01/19/03 04:06 PM Edit Reply Quote

Much has been said by the other repliers. I would like to add one capital not to underestimating gift of British 'blessings'. They have destroyed much of our spiritual, cultural and emotional thoughts: Being a Hindu and practising Hinduism has to be done with a lot of defendings. The insulting notions in western and Indian academic circles about Hindus still maintained in some important standard works are created by mostly British and German imperialistic thinking and race-obsessed quasi-academic people of the nineteenth and twentieth century who have trained very well a lot of Indians who are imitating them in thought and behaviour and downgrading anything Indian. The railway network was only meant for looting India and for quickly transporting their own fauj to eliminating any Indian uprising and setting communties up against each other. About becoming all Muslims. The Mughals didn't succeed in doing this. They had some power for a few generations thanks to some loyal Rajput families, like Man Singh of Amber under Jalaluddin Akbar. The moment Aurangzeb started with his fanatism, the Rajputs left his Darbar and that was the beginning of the end of Mughal power. By the time the British came, the Mughals were actually very powerless. The Sikkhs were rising under Ranajit Singh, the Marathas nearly lost power over Delhi. As Muslims have destroyed much of physical Indian culture and beings, the British were more busy with destroying the Indian (especially Hindu) mind, in which they have succeeded through their 'brilliant' education, so far as that still today their lies at many levels are believed, even by Indians themselves. There are some myths about India: 1. the myth of Muslim all-India rule from their first appearance. 2. the myth about Muslims being in a comforting position, having subdued the Hindus completely. The longlasting Hindu resistance is hardly mentioned in books. 3. the myth of British as Hindu saviours and first unifying force, bringing India in the modern age. Nowhere is the looting part mentioned and the monoculture failures leading to famines. etc.