Daily Mail: Britain has no need to make an apology to India for Empire...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1298569/Britain-need-make-apology-India-Empire-.html

Nirpal Dhaliwal on kirjoittajan nimi.

Jotkin historialliset osat menevät pieleen. Esim. Mughalit olivat kyllä suurin Intiassa hallinnut Muslimidynastia, mutta vain yksi monista joihin kuuluvat mm. Delhin sulttaanit.

Lisäksi useat Muslimivaltakunnat ovat tehneet lyhytkestoisempia valloitus- ja ryötöretkiä Intiaan vuosisatojen saatossa. Ghaznavidit aloittivat tuon hauskuuden n. 1000 vuotta sitten, jota myöhemmin ovat sitten jatkneet mm. Timur Lenk, Nadir Shah ja Afghaanivaltakunnat.

joitain lainauksia:

At this point, it's important to remember that the British did not arrive in an idyllic sub-continent full of happy, contented Indians, but in one in extreme turmoil.
And, though primarily motivated by profit, they sought to apply humane values - even if at gunpoint.
In 1846, the British commissioner, John Lawrence, told the local elite that Punjabis could no longer burn their widows, commit female infanticide, nor bury their lepers alive.
When they protested, saying that he had promised there would be no interference in their religious customs, Lawrence steadfastly replied that it was British religious custom to hang anyone who did such things.
In addition to combating these barbaric practices, the British also outlawed slavery in 1843 at a time when an estimated 10 million Indians were slaves - up to 15 per cent of the population in some regions.

Britit auttoivat intialaisia muistamaan omaa historiaansa:

It's no overstatement to say that, without the British, Indians would not even know what it is to be Indian.
After 800 years of Mughal rule, Hindu culture was in terminal decline and it was the likes of Warren Hastings and William Jones, the founders of the Asiatic Society, who began the collection and renewed study of India's ancient texts, educating Indians about their own rich and unique past.
And it was a Briton, Allan Octavian Hume, who helped found the Indian national Congress - the political party that would eventually lead the country to independence.
Thousands of Indians died building the railways of the Raj, but countless more died building the Taj Mahal and other useless baubles for their earlier rulers.