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I bought this book after reading Shashi Tharoor's "Inglorious Empire". Shashi Tharoor might have been biased against the British, he himself says “India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.”
So here we have an unbiased view by an American who had no relationship at all with India. This was written much before the Indian independence, so it is even more horrifying because most of them were current events then. He doesn't pull out statistics out of thin air, he provides citations for every data presented.
The brutality against the non-violent satyagrahis was blood curdling. I can only say hats off to these brave people who never showed anger and were completely restrained even when under torture.
It is appalling that the British looted India off her riches, then have the audacity to claim responsibility for empowering/ civilizing India.
One quote sums it all - ...to this ruining of the land with taxation, this ruining of industry with tariffs, and this ruining of commerce with foreign control, add the drainage of millions of dollars from India year after year- and the attempt to explain India's poverty as the result of her superstitions becomes a dastardly deception practiced upon a world too busy to be well informed.
So here we have an unbiased view by an American who had no relationship at all with India. This was written much before the Indian independence, so it is even more horrifying because most of them were current events then. He doesn't pull out statistics out of thin air, he provides citations for every data presented.
The brutality against the non-violent satyagrahis was blood curdling. I can only say hats off to these brave people who never showed anger and were completely restrained even when under torture.
It is appalling that the British looted India off her riches, then have the audacity to claim responsibility for empowering/ civilizing India.
One quote sums it all - ...to this ruining of the land with taxation, this ruining of industry with tariffs, and this ruining of commerce with foreign control, add the drainage of millions of dollars from India year after year- and the attempt to explain India's poverty as the result of her superstitions becomes a dastardly deception practiced upon a world too busy to be well informed.
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