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From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

Britain finally discovers how the Raj hurt India

Unlike the Germans, Britons began to face the hard truths
about their colonial empire only recently, says Kanika Datta.

Rediff.com
Sunday, November 26, 2017

It has taken a little under seven decades for British
academia, if not ordinary Britons, to acknowledge the
deleterious nature of their 200-odd year rule of the
Indian sub-continent.

The past two years has seen a raft of revisionist
histories from British writers that seek to highlight in
unequivocal terms the combination of outright violence
and chicanery that the British employed on their way to
dominating India.

These new writings constitute a comprehensive
contradiction of popular delusions -- held by some
Indians too -- that the British possessed some sort of
inherent racial greatness that enabled a small white
minority to dominate a populous sub-continent.

Continues at:

http://www.rediff.com/news/column/britain-finally-discovers-how-the-raj-hurt-india/20171126.htm

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