Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "King Charles' Coronation is 'going very badly wrong' claims Dr David Starkey" video.

  1.  @liviamguimaraes  Really? Do you believe that slaves were acquired by hordes of westerners rampaging across Africa? Actually, slave ships had small crews, and simply collected slaves from coastal compounds established either by arab slavers or African tribal leaders, who were happy to exchange their excess population for trade goods brought on the ships. If that isn't ane example of 'property to be bought and sold in the market place' then what is?
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  2.  @nelsonsibiya9204  No matter how many exclamation marks you use, they won't make up for your lack of credible argument.
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  3.  @siddharthmathur8277  Extensive use of exclamation marks is not a valid substitute for your evident lack of knowledge.
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  4.  @siddharthmathur8277  Good idea. Study British history. When are you going to start doing that yourself?
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  5.  @siddharthmathur8277  The Koh-i-noor diamone? The one which Sultan Alāʾ-ud-Dīn Khaljī took in 1304 from the raja of Malwa, India, whose family had owned it for many generations? Or the one which was given to the son of Bābur, the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India, by the raja of Gwalior after the battle of Panipat in 1526? Or the one which formed part of the loot of Nāder Shāh of Iran when he sacked Delhi in 1739? Or the one which the decendant of Aḥmad Shāh, founder of the Durrānī dynasty of Afghans, Shāh Shojāʿ, when a fugitive in India, was forced to surrender to Ranjit Singh, the Sikh ruler? Ironically, the only power which did not acquire it by plunder was the British. As to your imaginary atrocities. Please explain how a country with a population of 10.1 million, according to the 1801 census, managed to 'plunder' a subcontinent which at the same time had a population at the same time of around 139 million, whilst at the same time conducting a protracted war against the greatest military power in Europe? Incidentally, when the British left India, the population had risen to 360 million. 'What destruction?' I assume you are unaware of how the British Raj evolved? Look at how much the leading elites in the various Indian princely states, usually perpetually at war with each other, welcomed the British and vied for their support. I don't know where you received what apparently passes for education, but you have my deepest sympathy that you were not more fortunate.
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  6.  @siddharthmathur8277  Perhaps you don't actually know what happened to General Dyer, who grossly exceeded his orders? He was immediately removed from command, sent to Britain, and never given a position of authority for the rest of his life. Churchill's remarks were not unusual for someone born in 1874. Just as the remarks of a prominent Indian lawyer of the same period, that Africans were a lower form of human who should not be allowed voting rights would not have raised many eyebrows at the time. Ever heard of Mohandak K. Gandhi? 'Racial discrimination?' Presumably you mean the caste system? Oh, and the Industrial Revolution significantly pre-dated the British control of India. Darby invented the production of pig iron using coakr in around 1709. Newcomen invented the steam engine in 1712. Lombe built the first silk factory in 1719. Kay invented the weaving machine in 1733. The Bridgewater Canal opened in 1761. Hargreaves created the Spinning Jenny in 1764., Trevithick the steam locomotive in 1801. And so on. The Industrial Revolution originated in Britain, and facilitated the expansion of British influence on the world state. To suggest that British 'exploitation' of India created the Industrial Revolution is as improbable as claiming that Mitchell's design for the Spitfire encouraged the Wright brothers to build their Flyer.
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