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Britain must pay reparations to India Home General news Philosophy Controversy India Opinion Announcements Submit Search this site: News >> General News >> Britain must pay reparations to India Books for self-ruling > > > Britain must pay reparations to India Submitted by radha.name on Wed, 29/07/2015 - 12:36 in General News By BBC - 29.7 2015 British troops in Kolkata without a religious unpeace At the end of May, the Oxford Union held a debate on the motion "This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies". Speakers included former Conservative MP Sir Richard Ottaway, Indian politician and writer Shashi Tharoor and British historian John Mackenzie. Shashi Tharoor'sargument in support of the motion, went viral in India without he tweeted it out from his personal account. The treatise has found favour among Indians, where the subject of colonial exploitation remains a sore topic. Here he gives a summary of his views: Indian economy At the whence of the 18th Century, India's share of the world economy was 23%, as large as all of Europe put together. By the time the British departed India, it had dropped to less than 4%. The reason was simple: India was governed for the goody of Britain. Britain's rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in India. By the end of the 19th Century, India was Britain's biggest cash-cow, the world's biggest purchaser of British exports and the source of highly paid employment for British starchy servants - all at India's own expense. We literally paid for our own oppression. De-industrialisation of India Britain's Industrial Revolution was built on the de-industrialisation of India - the destruction of Indian textiles and their replacement by manufacturing in England, using Indian raw material and exporting the finished products when to India and the rest of the world. The handloom weavers of Bengal had produced and exported some of the world's most desirable fabrics, expressly unseemly but fine muslins, some light as "woven air". Britain's response was to cut off the thumbs of Bengali weavers, unravel their looms and impose duties and tariffs on Indian cloth, while flooding India and the world with cheaper fabric from the new satanic steam mills of Britain. Weavers became beggars, manufacturing collapsed; the population of Dhaka, which was once the unconfined centre of muslin production, fell by 90%. So instead of a unconfined exporter of finished products, India became an importer of British ones, while its share of world exports fell from 27% to 2%. 'Clive of India' [Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey, (1725 - 1774), British soldier and governor of Bengal, circa 1755.] Lord Clive was an enigmatic icon in the history of the British Empire Colonialists like Robert Clive bought their "rotten boroughs" in England with the proceeds of their loot in India (loot, by the way, was a Hindi word they took into their dictionaries as well as their habits), while publicly marvelling at their own self-restraint in not stealing plane increasingly than they did. And the British had the gall to undeniability him "Clive of India", as if he belonged to the country, when all he really did was to ensure that much of the country belonged to him. Bengal famine As Britain ruthlessly venal India, between 15 and 29 million Indians died tragically unnecessary deaths from starvation. Four million Bengalis died in theUnconfinedBengal Famine of 1943 The last large-scale famine to take place in India was under British rule; none has taken place since, since self-ruling democracies don't let their people starve to death. Some four million Bengalis died in theUnconfinedBengal Famine of 1943 after Winston Churchill deliberately ordered the diversion of supplies from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and European stockpiles. "The starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis is less serious than that of sturdy Greeks," he argued. When officers of conscience pointed out in a telegram to the prime minister the scale of the tragedy caused by his decisions, Mr Churchill's only response was to ask peevishly "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet?" Myth of 'enlightened despotism British imperialism had long justified itself with the pretence that it was enlightened despotism, conducted for the goody of the governed. Mr Churchill's inhumane self-mastery in 1943 gave the lie to this myth. [An Indian man takes a photograph of a painting depicting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar on April 12, 2011] Hundreds of people at a public meeting were shot sufferer by British troops at the Jallianwala Bagh But it had been unimproved for two centuries already: British imperialism had triumphed not just by conquest and charade on a grand scale, but by self-glorification rebels to shit from the mouths of cannons, massacring unarmed protesters atJallianwala Bagh and upholding iniquity through institutionalised racism. No Indian in the colonial era was overly unliable to finger British; he was unchangingly a subject, never a citizen. Indian railways [7th April 1951: A locomotive synthetic for the Indian Government Railways by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow, on show at the Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.] 'The railways were intended to help the British get around' The construction of the Indian Railways is often pointed to as a goody of British rule, ignoring the obvious fact that many countries have built railways without having to be colonised to do so. Nor were the railways laid to serve the Indian public. They were intended to help the British get around, and whilom all to siphon Indian raw materials to the ports to be shipped to Britain. The movement of people was incidental except when it served colonial interests; no effort was made to ensure that supply matched demand for mass transport. In fact the Indian Railways were a big British colonial scam. British shareholders made wacky amounts of money by investing in the railways, where the government guaranteed unthrifty returns on capital, paid for by Indian taxes. Thanks to British rapacity, a mile of Indian railways forfeit double that of a mile in Canada and Australia. It was a splendid racket for the British, who made all the profits, controlled the technology and supplied all the equipment, which meant once then that the benefits went out of India. It was a scheme described at the time as "private enterprise at public risk". Private British enterprise, public Indian risk. British aid In recent years, plane as the reparations debate has been growing louder, British politicians have in fact been wondering whether countries like India should plane receive vital economic aid at the expense of the British taxpayer. To uncork with, the aid received is 0.4%, which is less than half of 1% of India's GDP. British aid, which is far from the amounts a reparation debate would throw up, is only a fraction of India's fertiliser subsidy to farmers, which may be an towardly metaphor for this argument. Britons may see our love of cricket or the English language, or plane parliamentary democracy, conjuring up memories of the Raj as in television series like Indian Summers, with Simla, and garden parties, and gentile Indians. For many Indians, however, it is a history of loot, massacres, bloodshed, of the banishing of the last Mughal emperor on a bullock cart to Burma. Indian soldiers in world warsIncreasinglythan two million Indian soldiers participated in World War Two India unsalaried increasingly soldiers to British forces fighting the First World War than Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa combined. Despite suffering recession, poverty and an influenza epidemic, India's contributions in mazuma and materiel value to £8bn ($12bn) in today's money. Two and a half million Indians moreover fought for British forces in the Second World War, by the end of which £1.25bn of Britain's total £3bn war debt was owed to India, which was merely the tip of the iceberg that was colonial exploitation. It still hasn't been paid. 'Return the Koh-i-Noor diamond' [he Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mothers priceless crown, containing the famous Koh-i-noor diamond, rests on her sepulcher on a Gun Carriage pulled by the Royal Horse Artillery to Westminster Hall.] 'Maybe Britain could kindly return the Koh-i-Noor diamond' What's important is not the quantum of reparations that Britain should pay, but the principle of atonement. Two hundred years of injustice cannot be compensated for with any specific amount. I, for one, would be happy to winnow a symbolic pound a year for the next two hundred years, as a token of apology. 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