Comments by "" (@mailtorajrao) on "British policies in colonial India were incoherent and contradictory: Roderick Matthews" video.

Author's criticism of Mr Tharoor is somewhat valid but one thinks of Mr Tharoor as a Big Picture man - And the Big Picture is that the Indians got Royally Screwed (pun intended) by EIC/British on most HDI & Economic Growth parameters for more than 200 years. He is dead wrong about Dalrymple. Will buy the book nonetheless as a counterpoint addition to one's personal library.
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@denverbritto5606 Sure.
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@PRINT Mr. Matthews is of course correct that the EIC/British rule can not be reduced to stark binaries but one would agree it was pretty bad for the Indians, who on the whole were strangled economically. Asking for Kohinoor is symbolic. One is sure that the author considers reparations a "slippery slope", the "thin edge of the wedge", "a Bennite solution", isn't it? 😉The Africans and everyone else will come calling. By the by, does he doubt that in a 100 years it is very likely that Britain's population and politics will be an even brown? There will be "BNPs" along the way but the march to mixed-race, even Brown in England is a cert.
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@PRINT Very good book review, made especially so by Mr. Matthews' passion. An Hon’ble Mr. J. G. Jennings, M.A., was indeed at Patna College as late as 1919 and also at Muir Central College (though the dates are a bit vague online, with name entries added in wikis in the recent past).
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