#ListeningTo #Video
The Theft of the Raj: The British Empire in India
https://youtu.be/anliNlvCc5g
Shocking history, I never heard these horrifying details before 😲
/jd
article:
Roy Moxham and Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Mukulika Banerjee.
https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/the-theft-of-the-raj-the-british-empire-in-india/
@paulfree14 I can imagine, yes. But there are already was a vast civilizatin there, much more sophisticated and complex than Europe's at that time. But the Europeans had guns and ships.
I am still watching this now – this goes far beyond mere cultural confusions, but mass cruelty and slaughter that are hard to even imagine 😲
@jd @paulfree14
> mass cruelty and slaughter that are hard to even imagine
- That's just how colonialism works...
@jd there are documents where the invators found out that some villagers didn't know property as 'western' culture is used to. And they just expressed confusion...unfortunatly as I remember they took that also as a basis for just taking what ever they wanted