What The British Really Did To India | The Bastani Factor
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- From famine to deindustrialisation and paying for the world's largest army, there were no advantages in being part of the British Empire.
Aaron Bastani on what the British really did to India.
Correction: Graphic at 03.18 should say "1700" not "1800".
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"The Sun never set in the British Empire. Even the God could not trust them in the dark" 🤣
True
Shashi
Absolutely true
They stole that term from spanish empire
@@zilzap6440 The Spanish didn't need it anymore.
If the British didn't steal anything from any country, the British museum would be empty lol.
@@Foohimboi And a lot of the stuff would be damaged or still underground or broken up and sold on .
@Foohimboi And Your and my non Brit forefathers we so Enlighted and civilized to value those artefacts and they we highly educated in science on how to keep them for centuries.. You have your ass to make this blame in English in a modern platform only because those artifacts were there preserved by the British!!. In blaming the British every other guy is a scholar
That hackney joke has been done to death
Why do you never complain about the Ottoman Empire tho? That was raiding Indian villages for 800 years and did way worse than just take some artefacts, restored them and put them on display for all the world to see. Just curious..
Are we gonna talk about the Barbary trade that lasted 300 years? The Black sea trade that lasted 1400 years? The Islamic invas|ons that lasted 1400 years? No?
Divide and conquer, that's what the brits do best, Ireland still paying the price
Yes brother India will never be same
True
And British are proud of it. They think that them colonising those countries is the best thing that had happened to them. 😂
divide and rule is a Indian doctrine documented by Chanakya and British use it efficiently
@anupam anand no I did not read it somewhere, I have a degree in European history, also family history of old IRA men who fought to be free in their own country
This video doesn't touch the 1000's of famines and millions of lives lost in India, not to mention the atrocities and racism that they inflicted on the Indian people. This India may forgive, but will never forget what they did.
So if India had so much wealth why didn't they stop the British from taking it with their superior armies navies technology and resources. If India had so much wealth why couldn't they feed its citizens?
@@eddiehockley4144wealth doesn’t mean Strong army and navy. Plus there was civil war between some principalities from which brits take full advantage of and help one against other.
@@UMAIRRAJA90 So i guess despite India's Trillions in wealth, and massive population and resources advantages. Briton with its tiny population by comparison managed to conquer half the world and invent 40% of the worlds modern inventions, [ Steam engine,Train, submarine, tank, jet engine, computer, laptop, radar, internet, television, telephone, photography, micro chip, fibre optics, etc ] to name a few. Then we must be left with one conclusion how it happened. British IQ must be far higher than Indian IQ. Otherwise how on earth did they manage to conquer a country many many times larger than Briton?
The will be forced to forgive.
i aint forgiving.. they left a scar dividing all of ours brothers bangaldesh india , pakistan and sri lanka
Crediting British Empire for all those benifits is like praising WWII for creating United nations, instigating invention of computers.
@@AlexAlcyone How so? It isn't a logical fallacy.
First Computer was the Zuse and the logic ( Octavialnummbersystem) was invented by a germany female mathematicion
So true
@@albertkurz913 Zuse was a man
@@AlexAlcyone lol false equivalence... are you still in high school or you never progressed beyond high school and that was one of the last thing you remembered and you are throwing it around thinking it is the bomb for defeating an argument? hahaha dum
Question: What British really did to India?
Answer: Looting!
😂😂 Even the word “loot” is looted from Hindustani language 😂
But you still hero worship them! Maybe most Indians simply cannot divorce that relationship which albeit insulting and yet comforting and to many almost proud!
The reason India is thriving today is because of the infrastructure left by the British.The trains ,aiports ,roadways ,sea port.India only would not have been able to build it today.Yes they suffered then but are thriving now because of that development.They built schools , English school.
@@pahatpahat9566 Maybe you were talking about this Shashwat guy😂😂😂
@@shashwatpoudel7273 what kind of creature are you. The whole world did not develop because of British
As an Englishman, this video is very eye opening and sad. But what I would point out, which most people don't appear to understand in the comments, is that most of this wealth went to a very very very small minority of the upper class in Britain. Most Brits, like my ancestors, were working from the age of 4 in terrible poverty stricken conditions in workhouses, Mills, factories, docks and farms. And then forced to live in slums. So really, the common people share the common enemy.
That's true. But the problem is many defend or in complete denial of the dirt of the empire.
The British the American empires didnt die, its now known as the world economic forum
they should be hated like our ww2 leader adolf
Fact is a lot of the British of all levels did become rich.
@@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb no they didn't, the vast majority of the British went from feudalism to working all hours in dirty factories in which a lot of people (including children) died slaving in unsafe working conditions.
The top 1% of all wealth today is in hands of the world economic forum members.
My grandma when she was a child remembers her village being raided by British soldiers looting away the grains… what atrocities happened in hinterlands never came out for world to see
Did your grandma also complain about the Mughal empire and how millions of Indians were slaves under their rule (until the British abolished slavery)?
@@Oakette Slavery was flourishing in UK , how do you think your black neighbours ended up in cold britain?from sky?...mughal empire all religions and communities stayed in peace and happiness...although mughal kings were muslims they worked and gave high positions to hindu cheifs...but this all changed with white men coming in...they made muslims and hindus fight with each other for their selfish needs(read divide and rule policy in history)...please study history..dont allow one sided propaganda (white mans burden) to cloud your senses..study, read books it will help you
@@Oakette😂
@@Oakettenonsense. The mugjals intermarried with Indians whom enjoyed high positions in the Mughal system while the British put up signs banning Indians and dogs from their clubs.
@@Tamarlane389
You fell for the anti Anglo Saxon propaganda. The reason the incompetent kings before Saxon rule accepted people from all backgrounds is so that they could also enslave many others of all different backgrounds without arousing rebellion among the people. The fact is, the British crown liberated millions of Indians.
Rest all aside, I like how younger Brits actually are brave enough to question their own past and are conscientious enough to admit the mistakes rather than make excuses like the oldies.
i only see brits defending their empire in the comments here
@@rishin8012 as they should compare country's that did have British influence those that don't today only America is better then Brittain they should remake the earth
Nah, I don't see it.
yeah but it's while they're dragged along by narratives made up from people who don't get history
when people are young they always read a little david icke or go a bit Qanon, it's the nature of youth
These types have been around since the 60s and it's nothing to do with conscientiousness or bravery. They're programmed via education & media to think that signaling dislike of Empire confers some kind of moral superiority. It's narcissism, nothing more.
One of the greatest myths ever perpetuated is that Britain gifted democracy to India. It wasn't a gift, Indians fought for it through non violent means while other dominions like Canada, New Zealand and Australia already had democracy. Even when Britain "gifted" democracy, they poisoned it with reservations along religious line. This was the seed that lead to the violent and ethnic cleansing of the Partition that followed 22 years later
India would have been far better with autocracy. If it where not mugals.
The British like the pretend they invented every single positive thing
@@pratiknath3267 arguing about counterfactuals doesn't wipe away the misery suffered under the British Raj.
@@getstrongby4038 The British invented a LOT of things. That's beyond dispute.
Greek and Britain learned everything about democracy from the Gram Panchayati system which existed for 1000s of years before they or the Muslim invasions started.
Thanks for making this video. My dad's family lived in India at the time and they have stories of small business owners waking up to find all their goods looted/stolen by the East India Company. It's important to balance out the stories of the empire we learned in school with the truth.
And where do you live?
personally i never learn any sort of polarised narratives, infact i guess we done the native americans and we very much went through how the natives suffered.... we didn't go through EVERY last country on the planet which some particular country will also claim because they think they're more important ... but we done a fair share of slavery and the oppressed
so you're making out he British education system something it's no... complete nonsense, you must have been asleep
@nigtree plant the thing is they're not.... show me a citation from a current english histry coursework that is biased or incorrect? put your money where your mouth is
@nigtree plant History is written by those who can find the evidence. Myths are told by those who believe, like Fiza Sheikh, that family stories from 200 years ago are accurate.
@nigtree plant No, there are many history texts written by the losers. But in order for the losers to write history texts, they (more than the winners) need to preserve good records of events, and make them widely available to later generations
Ten or so years ago I sat with my work boss in a 90 year old blokes’ kitchen whilst he recounted his days “ in Malaya when in the British Army” . With glee he spoke adventures during their occupation then one particular incident of “ lads chasing the **** out of their huts and bayoneting them then having the women & children away “
I sat there in total fucking disbelief that a so called civilised human being would be prepared to admit to playing any part in this horrendous event . He’d be dead by now the bastard 😐
And they dare to call the rest uncivilised
What did they do to the women and children?
And yes, I condemn these inhuman beings
LMFAO 😂
*BASED* 👏
Why are you coming to europe then?
@@karlscher5170 Because they want what we have without working for it. Britain went into debt to end s|avery and it still suceeded.
People in the UK have this idea that Empire was a long time ago, and doesn't apply to them now at all. We're feeling the effects globally of the decisions of empire, from rampant capitalism and ecocide to soaring inequality. I had teachers at school who were administrators and settlers from Kenya, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea to name a few. Friends grandparents were stationed in the Indian Army, the Mao Mao etc. The empire was incredibly recent, we need to have better and more frank conversations about what we as a nation did to the rest of the world.
India didn't know it was India until the concept was revealed to the Indian people by the British.. The long term homogenity the Indians enjoyed made India a really solid entity to make a Country whole... . On the other hand the British refuse to recognise the English and not one other Country in the World recognises we English exist as a Country . We English have to be constantly humiliated by being forced to use a British Passport. if we go abroad...
Indians have their own passports they know who they are whilst our children are being systematically told generation after generation - who - what and where .... they are ....untruths disseminated by an over- privileged elite squatting within a Rogue Capital City which continually refuses to identify with the English People or The England which is theirs. Will India ever recognise England ...Scotland Wales and N.Ireland have their own governments but we English are still invisible?
Perhaps we can also have "frank conversations" about the Islamic & Ottoman invasions and pillaging of Europe, the annihilation of the native South Africans by Bantus and Shaka Zulu's brutal conquest of the region, the Barbary slave trade, etc etc. Most young people have no idea about any of this and are brainwashed into thinking only Europeans were colonists. But of course this would undermine the masochistic desire for penitence that's been programmed into your psyche.
@Jo Sm There is no justification of what Britian did not only in India but the rest of the world.
You mentioned mughal empire as if they fall from the sky they were Indians and wether they were brutal or not that's for the Indians to decide not Britians so find another excuse for terrorising a whole nation.
As did France, Holland, Belgium, Islam , Mongols, Vikings and the Roman empire. Where do you draw the line. Stop being a victim.
@Jo Sm u r saying that mughals and marathas committed human atrocities but see none of them killed 2 to 3 million people in a manufactured famine that could have been easily avoided. You should also check out jallianwala bagh massacre on Wikipedia.
Once again, Novara doing what my GCSE history course SHOULD have done, and told me the truth.
Or you could have read a book
@@As-qz5lr it would take a pretty self aware 15 year old to be reading history completely outside of their syllabus especially on a topic that isn't even slightly mentioned in school
@@MrKiingpin As33 is just an A**, lol
@@leedsguyuk69 you are right, I'm sorry
@Gregory Wilton in Scotland at Nat 5 level (GCSE) we were taught about WW1 and how everyone was so patriotic about Britain and the empire
No hate to brits tho. Just teach your children about their ancestors' sins. It is not too much to ask for
I am from uk and I went through poverty and violent trauma in the UK. But I've to focus on a country rich oligarchs from Britain controlled in the past?
@@unclelumbago5777 not focus. Just know about it.
@@oneillnandie7999 It's irrelevant which is why it is always used to derail more serious conversations. New empires are forming as we speak.
@@jwadaow you’re saying your country’s history is irrelevant? The Germans seem a lot more upfront about their history and I don’t see hell breaking loose. Also the conversation is about the British Empire, I’m not concerned about the other ones right now.
True. We don't need apology
Fact: it’s been only 75 years since India gained independence from the British. It really wasn’t that long ago
and they have already become one of the biggest economies on earth. imagine how much britain was keeping them down...
@@sandermez3856 still a disgusting country
@@mrsmokingskittles148 yes brittain is still shitty!
How long would you all blame the colonizers? Even after 60 or 80 after independence?
To date, the Third World sits upon the foundation of the colonial structures- Roadways, Railways, Education, Legal system, Health Care.
And the points raised in video are false and debatable.
@@mrsmokingskittles148that disgusting country is 4th in the best countries in the world while ur country dosnt even have parts for it's own tanks 😂 truly british power
The tragedy is that today the educational elite in India still bow to "Western" education and morals, instead of looking to the beautiful and ancient Indian culture.
100% true
Not our fault if young Indians want to study IT, Business studies and other Western crap. Would be better for them to return to Vedic roots.
@@NigelJacksonhe isn’t talking about IT and Science but history and humanities which is full of propaganda.
@@Aashu299education is supposed to give you the power to analyse unless you are a parrot
@@NigelJacksonvedic roots are useful but modern sciences have given. Us penicillin compass and technology.
I remember a friend once telling me that India used to be quite a rich country, but it never recovered from the British colonisation. I'm guessing this is what she was talking about.
If they remove corruption they may even become the one of the next world superpowers.
She lied to you, she should be grateful, if not for the brits, she would have been tossed on pyre when her husband died.
@@ParagonRex let us never forget that east india company was a secretly a feminist rescue group that helped a few hundred upper caste women. Never forget the intent behind being there.
@@ParagonRex lmao noob
@@ParagonRex 🤡🤡🤡🤡
I will never understand why India doesn't ask / demand the return of the Crown Jewels , the vast majority of them were stolen from India .
Sshh! Don’t give them any ideas!😅
I thought they did? It's called the Koh-i-Noor though the twating Tories wouldn't allow its return.
There's a team called "India Pride Project" who engage with multiple countries who have stolen arts pieces or idols from india during colonisation and work for bringing those back. They been successful too in some parts. They are Singaporean indians though, not Indian Govt
Thank you for this message which I wasn't aware of , but it's time the Indian government gets involved and especially now with brexit and UK looking for trade deals this is the best time .
and Africa
1:38 The so called 'Clive of India' , you forgot to tell how he won that battle. He won that battle by bribing the commander of the kings army to take a very large part of the army far away from the battle field. He also promised the commander to make him the nawab.
Sounds like a sensible strategy to me.
Tactics....war is hell. Life is not fair...but all is fair in love and war. Play the cards you're dealt. Live your life as a victim...or live your life.
He got the job done, didn't he? There is no place for honour in battle.
@@kettlepotA2 Actually war in Asia is all about honour.. but the white people don’t believe in that clearly. The British did a lot of bribing. It’s how they defeated Queen Chennamma of Kittur.. they bribed a general to adulterate the gunpowder so her canons wouldn’t fire. They can never fight fair.
@@kettlepotA2funny how the mask slips off and you're perfectly fine being a war criminal when it's against those you don't consider fully human
Death toll of 30m is the very low end of estimates I have seen
ye... just between 1880 and 1920, the death toll is 165 million people.
It was hundreds of millions
This is pretty much just a summary of 'Inglorious Empire' by Shashi Tharoor, which goes into more detail.
Far more detail, but that's a book and this is a ten minute video. I wouldn't call it a summary even, it's more of an introduction on the subject and hopefully people will seek out more information themselves.
@Jo Sm Hahaha, try actually producing an evidence rebuttal of what they are saying, rather than just flinging insults because you don't have anything to say.
* Evidence based rebuttal
@Jo Sm When has it been exposed? Where are your sources? I typed Bengal famine into the internet and there's plenty on the Bengal Famine being caused by the decisions of Churchill. It's not hard to imagine how if you move loads of grain from India to help the war effort, the Indian population was going to be short of food. It's like me stealing your wallet and then blaming you for losing it.
@Jo Sm If you search Bengal Famine Churchill, then it certainly comes up.
The masses need to learn about these things, so thank you.
@Jo Sm As a Bengali I can tell you that this video is barely scratching the surface when it comes to British colonial brutality in India. If you knew in detail what happened in Bengal at the micro level for the 200 years that the British ruled, you would become speechless - it really is that bad. All the evidence is there, especially, in the vernacular, if you care to look for it.
Also, the age old tropes about India not being united as a country and being backward as a society is simply not true because Indian history & civilisation has ample evidence on the contrary. There is a tendency in the West to totally overlook modern India's Hindu & Buddhist past, where vast empires existed, a very advanced philosophical & religious system was the order of the day and literature & the arts flourished. Hind or Hindustan is ancient land with a distinctive identity - only one country in the world has an ocean named after it, since the beginning of recorded history - "Hind Mahasagar" or the Indian Ocean. So the British didn't give it unity - many empires have. In fact the British would not have succeeded in India, if they didn't inherit the Mughal administrative system, which was incidentally based on the administrative system of native Hindu/Buddhist empires. Please research the Maurya & Gupta Empires. The Mughals were also foreign invaders - descended from a line of Muslim invaders like Bakhtiyar Khilji, who destroyed the Nalanda University, the world's largest Buddhist monastery which had existed for thousands of years. That's how Islam came to Bengal & India. Both the Islamic & the British invaders into India, appropriated Indian knowledge systems, be it mathematical, scientific, medical, administrative & passed it off as their own. Nothing that the British did in India was for the benefit of the Indians at all - including the building of the railways, the introduction of English or the supposed introduction of democracy.
The British introduced the caste system in India officially as part of their divide & rule policy - they criminalised certain castes as "criminals" & widows & devdasis (women who danced for the gods in temples) were termed as "prostitutes". The ramifications of caste are still there in India because India has been independent for only 74 years, compared to 200 years of British rule. India has made a lot of progress. It might surprise Westerners to know that the Indian PM Modi is from a backward caste and the Indian President Kovind is too. Also, the British taking credit for the emancipation of Indian women & abolishing the Sati system is totally disingenuous, because these things happened because of grass roots movements by Bengalis like Raja Rammohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar etc, who petitioned for greater rights for women, the abolition of sati etc. It is almost impossible for a colonial power to eradicate local religious customs, if they don't have support among the natives. There was nothing glorious about the British Empire in India and I hope the Queen apologies for it unreservedly, before she dies; it is the least she can do.
@Jo Sm I don't expect to change the mind of someone like you, who is completely brain washed & chooses to ignore the extensive research & solid evidence in academic circles regarding the matter. I don't even wish to argue with you either. You do need your own version of truth, in order to be able to look yourself in the mirror. Suffice it to say, that this century is going to be overwhelmingly embarrassing for the British institutions, as more studies & books come out of former British colonies, highlighting the extent of British colonialism at both the macro & micro level. Do take care of your mental health, when the truth emerges from unmarked graves & unvarnished academic papers & books.
@@MaTara01 Why did a strong, independent and united India not just resist a group of guys coming from a small island in Europe?
@@ReformedWhiteKnight It is a long historical story but at least I am glad that you acknowledge that India was invaded by the British for their own selfish reasons. It was not to liberate India at all, but to exploit the vast resources of India. I have no problem at all if the Queen owns up to the exploitation of all the British colonies, instead of parroting on about how noble & moral British intentions were. No need to apologise for colonialism, just spare us the moral lectures! Also, the average white British person is virtually clueless about their own history, barring what can be written on a pub napkin, to expect stupid questions from them on British colonial history is expected.
Let me also tell you that the notion that the British united India (the current map of India) is also a myth, because India was divided by the British, when they left in 1947 into India and Pakistan. Also, there were 500 princely states in India in 1947, which were assimilated into India, after India's independence in 1947.
No they do not
You have to understand, by circa 1850 the average life expectancy of a working class british male was 17 years, London's slums had a higher infant mortality rate than Calcutta's (the infamous black hole of calcutta). The conditions in british mills were utterly inhuman, child labour, poverty, 24 hr rolling extended shifts, non existent safety, high mortality and disease rates.
The land enclosures removed the british working class from common land and cottage forcing us into urban slums, mines and factories.
As it was said at the time, "The law locks up the man or woman, who steals the goose from off the common, but leaves the greater villain loose, who steals the common off the goose".
My point is, that (former and present) imperial "subjects" and the British working class have a common historical enemy, one who still holds a scale in one hand (rigged?) And a dagger in the other.
It is obvious to anyone paying half a cintilla of attention, that our interests lay in standing together, whether black white yellow brown or pink, the greatest treachery to those who have struggled and gone before us is to fight amongst ourselves.
We have to end the iron grip of psychopaths that has us all in its chokehold.
And it seems the ruling class scum in the UK are trying to bring back slavery in the UK. The working conditions in many jobs (especially blue collar) is steadily getting worse! The 8 hour shift and work life balance has almost disappeared for many. Many in warehouses and driving jobs are doing 12+ hour shifts regularly, being forced to work very hard hard, very fast, often not being allowed to take proper breaks, their managers stealing their wages (incorrect paychecks and threats of being fired if they complain too much), not giving staff paid holidays, paid sick leave, no more pensions etc. They use fancy terms like 'gig economy' to make it sound cool. The parasites at the top need to be thrown out soon!
Well said. It’s important to know the real enemy. We can’t let horrors like Tice and Oakeshott turn people’s heads , like turkey’s voting for Christmas.
That's exactly what I was thinking. This is good information, people need to know about the brutality of colonialism (it's still present today, in a much more modernized way) but they also need to know who's committing these atrocities. It's not the people, it's the few powerful greedy inhumane people that are in charge of (any) country. The ppl of India would be wrong hating British, as I would be wrong hating French or Spanish people because I'm Moroccan. Greed was pursued in a brutal way back then, but it's still present and people need to wake up. It's all of humanity against few money hungry leaders that turn us against each other and becoming billionaires while people struggle to make it to the end of the month
@@Devil-fl3rg Why would you hate the Spanish? You |nv4ded them. They just fought back.
@@Devil-fl3rg Barbary pirate.
Don't believe I heard the word genocide being mentioned, because that what it was in both the Irish and Indian famines
Your right,that is exactly what happened
Well... If you can prove intent.. Then you have genocide
Irish people in their early 19s have inspired many freedom fighters in India too, like the most famous Bhagat Singh was the admirer of the Irish spirit.
@@Kitiwake Like you need intent for labeling something as genocide..The Conquistadors intentions were to find gold and glory. Yet they obtained those things by committing genocide.
@@Kitiwake
Winston Churchill said " let them die, they breed like rabbits"
I studied this topic in a cross discipline course at the OU, it was a real eye opener for me. The British imposed laws that killed 100s of thousands without understanding first thing about the country and culture. I feel ashamed of our dark history, but more ashamed that we brush it under the carpet. Thanks Aaron.
History is written by the victors etc.
You shouldn’t be ashamed unless you’re part of the British elite. Your British ancestors were likely just as oppressed by the British elite as the colonies were.
It wasn’t and isn’t britain or British. It’s those holding the levers of power in Britain. Of course, that power will use nationalism to get the working class to identify with that power and protect its interests.
@Jo Sm I see you in every comment justifying British empire did right with India and basically civilised "INDIA".
@Jo Sm yes I Claim it and it would have happened
@Jo Sm "large scale slaughters"
Did somebody forget 1919 jalianwala massacre that was done by British?
By large scale slaughters, do you mean wars? If yes, then wars were also common in "great Western power UK".
To most Indians, the colonial period is very uncomfortable. Some feel angered by it, some just don't want to recall or talk about it. But the fact that so many loan words have penetrated the local vocabulary is a stinging reminder of the terrible history that our forefathers endured. Till this day, Indians say and take pride when someone says 'sir'. A feudal word almost out of use in the Anglo-world.
Looting,genocide , rape….,,,it was very bad
Some facts to be corrected. The Mogul Enpire had virtually collapsed and controlled no more than the area of Delhi fort. The Maratha empire ruled most of the continent and had full control over the continent and the Mugal emperor was just another vessel under the control of Marathas. The British essentially took over the power in India from the Marathas after they weere weakened after 3rd battle of Panipat (14 January 1761- between Afgan Ahmed Shah Abdali and the Marathas). After the 3rd battle of Panipat the Marathas were weakened but still had enough fire power. They were weakened only due to infighting between Maratha chieftains. British took benefit of this and took control of India after defeating the Marathas after the 1857 Mutiny. So it was almost a 100 yers betwen collaps of Mugal empre and takeover of India by the British.
When most people talk about the British takeover of India, they mean both the time of the East India Company after their conquest of Bengal in 1757 and the British government which nationalised the Company after the 1857 mutiny and took control of India through the Government of India Act, 1858.
Also, the British crown gave the East India Company a right of monopoly on trade in India and Southeast Asia. So, if you don't want to call the company the representatives of the British state, at least call them a state backed company. I mean British politicians were many of the founders and backers of the company after all.
What an injustice and to this day India still struggles with high rates of poverty but hopefully someday they can get back to being one of the wealthiest nations in the world.
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it was the Dutch East India company it was dutch owned privately until the Dutch Government nationalised it..... it was never a British firm ....and you are quite capable of reading an encyclopedia.... did you even do history past grade 5 with that subject????? - of course not none of us did .... just saying
Unfortunately they have a fascist cult leader 's regime backed by the CIA etc. Not to mention they are far to buddy buddy with the current failing empire. The people continue to suffer endure needless suffering en mass. All they did was exchange one empire for another. At least they have their independence though, too bad that the USA meddles in all countries affairs. Save for the ones it is unable to for specific reasons.
They will have to start with getting rid of their backwards caste system, and their century-long flirtation with fascism. Hindutva gotta go.
There is no doubt that India will become one of the world's biggest economies. As a German, there is just one piece of advice I can give the Indian people: STAY AWAY FROM THE AMERICANS!!!!!
Honestly, this is just half the story. The other half is how the British DELIBERATELY manufactured hate among Hindus and Muslims which plagues the subcontinent even today. The partitions had no geographical or administrative purpose. They were meant to break these countries for the British to continue their administration. British rumors about the other communities to break unity still lurk even till this day ! The material wealth can be earned back, but the literacy percentage and deprivation of intellectual wealth is the true colonial legacy these idiots should be talking about. An educated population >>> Democracy. For millenia these communities lived in harmony, but a few decades with the British Empire it's permanently damaged.
This barely scratches the surface of how depraved and callous the exploitation was, and the abhorrent way it came to be. Behind The Bastards has several multi-episode pieces on just a fraction of the atrocities - well worth checking out.
i agree with everything , but now I'm starting to think why it happened to india in the first place. Britain played the rulers for their greed. Wouldn't have happened if india was united.
Aneesh Prasobhan blaming the victim much?
@@aneeshprasobhan true India could not have United as due to the rivalry between the kingdoms
@@aneeshprasobhan Prosperity erodes nationalism.
@@eminentTwerp nationalism was there, but the nations were kingdoms the size of each state today (mostly even smaller). But yeah you're right.
I still can’t get over the fact that a company that wants to do business and trade would one day randomly bring arms and start battling with people and conquer them….like is this the way your business and economy work?
It still happens today but with the help of government.. In 2017, 13 people were shot by TN police for protesting to close Vedanta Sterlite Copper factory. The factory was polluting water and land in nearby villages and caused widespread cancer in those villages.. the private army is now replaced with government machinery
Yes, sadly this is how both the British Empire, and it’s replacement “Global Britain” work...
Even though we very on the other end, I’ll have to admit one thing, It works efficiently, have to give them that…history is proof
Read "The Anarchy" by William Dalrymple. It explains very well how it all came to be and is a really nice read too
@@XxEpIcFrOzEnzZxxx will check it out 👍
Britain did not set up the institutions that are in India. Education was the foundation of Indian culture for thousands of years, We had the oldest universities in the world, and every village had schools, in fact, primary education was learned by the British which is used by the British today. Democracy was something in India, but shortly before the British left we had to fight for this right, again not given. Oh, you mention the Mughals, they were not the only rulers of India, we had Hindu rulers as well, but this is never mentioned and their wealth was also vast. India in a way was ruled by invaders and varied kingdoms it was always united by culture, and that is why India was always known as Bharat or Hindustan from ancient times. It was like what the United States is today. England did not give anything to India without making a profit from it and bled it dry, and did not care if Indians died because of their looting of resources. It is a story that England just portrays wearing rose-tinted glasses.
British are good they provide English education and connected india western scientific research institute They develope india as Modern India They provide open school for Dalit community and also give scholarship to dalit community .Dalit had face 3000 year atrocities by Brahmins kshatriya hindu religion. But when British came india they gives dalit to hope live life a equal men British destroy caste system of Brahmins Hindu culture now I am also dalit we thank to British came india to independent Dalit from Brahmins Hindu religion atrocities Dalit are not allowed get education before British But Now Every Dalit Become Doctor Engineer Scientific Research Scholar it provide Under by British Empire Rule
Why does everyone body want fake news against British Rule because it is a fake news by Brahmin Hindu religion higher caste . Brahmin hindu have fake god fake religion book Brahmins rape Dalit women but British Empire Rule destroy Brahmins Hindu Culture. British are great People
India's literacy rate would suggest otherwise. India's literacy rate for 2022 was 76.32%. I see no influence around the world in the education systems that could be of Indian origin. I know that school uniforms are a British invention I believe the whole modern education system is a British invention which was copied or exported to the rest of the world. You can go to countries as far apart as Ireland to Japan and see school kids wearing school uniforms, having school sports days, school houses et cetera et cetera all based upon the British model.
When british enter, it was a culture in decline
@@eddyr1041 Yeah, bye bye Suti.
@@stevensibbet5869I agree. One cannot deny that the British left behind lasting legacies. I can't imagine what would happen to those countries if they were occupied by the Dutch, Spain or Japanese instead of the British. For instance, look at Indonesia, occupied by the Dutch and they left nothing behind, zip,!
It's estimated that British colonizers looted almost 42 trillion $ from India.
From another hardline Marxist spinning anti-capitalist propaganda.
I thought they used £ not $
@@theghost1920 they used Euro, but looted in Dollar. 😁
@@blackvenom2945 they used Euro? The Euro or the EU didn't exist back then 😂 plus the UK never adopted the Euro ever, next your going to say the British drive in kph and drive left hand drive cars 🤣
@@BenJamin-rt7ui What does that have to do with capitalism or Marxism??
Smh. It is what it is. Empires (whether in Europe or Asia) were in it for themselves. They would loot foreign lands of money and strip resources.
Accept it and move on.
Where ever the Empire goes ....death, destruction and the stone age is soon to follow. The East India Company of course melted into the City of London.
Errant nonsense. You cant stop progress and civilisation...the Romans did it once...then the Brits. Deal with it.
Yer like canada
@@turbodewd1 progress for one country at the cost of others?
@@prajwalbharambe343 huh? the motor car was developed in Europe mate - not Asia.
@@turbodewd1 you can see what is, but can't imagine what could have been. If west would have helped industrialise Asia instead of deindustrialising you would be enjoying even better inventions today!
The British didn't take India from the Mughals but from the Marathas.
Correct!! The Marathas were the reason the Portuguese and british werent able to get hold early even through they had landed
@@vbnandu867 Before the collapse of the Mughal Empire, neither the Portuguese (who had established themselves in India before Babur's invasion) nor the British were making any serious attempt to "get hold". They relied on sea power, so all they needed were defensible ports
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@ahmed ali India's GDP before Islam invasion was 34% and after Islam rule was 24%......
And they destroyed our temples , and done genocides in the name of religion
This is such an important discussion. The Brits are crying about immigrants not sharing their values and destroying their traditions, yet Britain forgets that it went all over the world for 400 year and suddenly did not seem to care about the traditions of those countries. People need to stand up and say this to the British and remind them of what they did.
Shut up.
@@AIJimmybadno you shut up
What goes around comes around. The chicken has come home to roost.
British today "we give aid to india and they have a space program. Indians are poor"
Well, British made India poor and your aid is BS in front of what you looted.
Let me break this gently to you.
The British population have little interest in India .The British you generalise about don't exist
@@watfordgap6737 chichen teekar masalar disagrees.
"Capitalization"
@@watfordgap6737 dude, i find british crying about aid in almost every comment section of news related to India. Chill up
@@rutvikrs you sound like you are having a seizure
The truth about a dirty Empire.
@Jo Sm give it up now.
Great empire
Can you show me a clean Empire? Or in fact in nation in the past with a clean human rights records? Hate to break it to you, the British may have not being clean but they were the best at that time.
@@alastair9446 best at murdering
@@oswaldmosley4315great empire of loot
Millions of people, that's a lot Churchill, yet you are proud of what you've done.
Churchill was always a piece of garbage
@@alex17252 Isn't a single justification for mass genocide or the plundering of trillions in today's value worth of resources etc. The fact you are trying to justify literal crimes against humanity is truly disgusting.
@@alex17252 nobody ever accepted that British empire war good for Indians
Death to britain and death to Anglo Saxon race
@@alex17252 - Yeah right! The historians you mention will most probably be British historians writing the history books for Indians to read and believe. The story of the hunt is generally written by the hunter and not by the Lion.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l Trillions? That has been debunked
As an ignorant Indian even i believed till now that we benefited from the British Empire
@@JustDaniel6764 i hope you'll spend more time sharpening your knowledge about history
@@jeanettewee8805 you understand that you keept this people,Africans and Indians like slaves for centuries,you did the same to Irish people
@@JustDaniel6764 Keep laughing, won't last long
British are good they provide English education and connected india western scientific research institute They develope india as Modern India They provide open school for Dalit community and also give scholarship to dalit community .Dalit had face 3000 year atrocities by Brahmins kshatriya hindu religion. But when British came india they gives dalit to hope live life a equal men British destroy caste system of Brahmins Hindu culture now I am also dalit we thank to British came india to independent Dalit from Brahmins Hindu religion atrocities Dalit are not allowed get education before British But Now Every Dalit Become Doctor Engineer Scientific Research Scholar it provide Under by British Empire Rule
Why does everyone body want fake news against British Rule because it is a fake news by Brahmin Hindu religion higher caste . Brahmin hindu have fake god fake religion book Brahmins rape Dalit women but British Empire Rule destroy Brahmins Hindu Culture. British are great People
Don't be naive
"I have brought Peace, Freedom, Justice and Security to my New Empire." - Darth Vader
haha love it !
British empire helped modernise the world
@@freeplex589 ok I agree but that doesn't remove the oppression it caused
@@imperialjapanesenavy1868 British empire was a net positive
@@freeplex589 troll
British people need to educate their children about their colonial system.
Next generation doesn't need to feel sorry, just need to know.
Thieves don't tell their kids how they obtained their wealth. For example here in the Netherlands, the whole slavery part is missing from the history books. And countries in Asia 'gifted' their lands to the Europeans in fear. Europe and America played a very good game, we are all modern slaves, without even knowing it.
We do know.
I think Indian children need to be educated how they used to fight and pillage each. How they used bury lepers alive.
@@alastair9446 context?
@@yourhighness9638 Look at others faults and not your own.
Where did all the wealth accumulated during the British empire go ? The average citizen seemed to be working long hours for starvation wages.
How do think Central London, and virtually every country house - directly or indirectly - was paid for ?
And the wealth was actually tens of thousands of millions of tonnes of gold.
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it was the Dutch East India company it was dutch owned privately until the Dutch Government nationalised it..... it was never a British firm ....and you are quite capable of reading an encyclopedia.... did you even do history past grade 5 with that subject????? - of course not none of us did .... just saying
To the royals they are nothing but thieves
The same place it goes in the USA's empire. Into the coffers of the corporate oligarchs(Insert ruling elites of the day).
Very well rounded and informational video, the details were given in an effective and concise manner. Thank you!
It's a real mystery though isn't it that India didn't spend a minute fraction of the £Trillions and Trillions of wealth on an army superior enough to the British to stop them taking it?
I cannot stand Nick Ferrari
he's pompous without actual intellectual integrity a clown if you will.
He’s obsessed by the Royal Family 🤢
@@frankezane583 spew
@@frankezane583 He attacked Nicola Sturgeon for apparently insulting the royal family and displaying appalling behaviour when she did nothing of the sort. He never even explained why or how she acted in that way, he just assumed she did.
@@davidpearn2484 not closet. Just a tory
After Mughal empire collapsed there was the Maratha Empire and after that the Brits came
@Simple Minded Lol, Yes It was Maratha Empire and before mughal it was Maurya Empire and Gupta Empire rulling Most of the parts of ancient India.
Whole of mughals rule was not more than years 1526 to 1761,
500 years of mughals rule and 300 years of britisher rule ended.
@Simple Minded Hindu fanatics?.. So the contemporary british who called India as "the Watan-e-Maratha" were Hindu fanatics?
Have you really researched into this matter?
@Simple Minded I wonder how you came up with these terms ? Hindu Bengalis never termed them as bandits. It was Muslims of Bengal who became majority by genociding the Hindu Bengalis who termed them bandits.
Learn history properly.
Exactly ❤️Sivaji Maharaj
actualy maratha cannot be compared to mughal and british
british took over india from mughals
I’m a Pakistani and a fan of cricket. The only time I will ever cheer FOR the Indian cricket team is when they’re playing against England. That should tell you what I think of the that country.
Same goes here, Pakistan FTW! against England.
Same brother. I cheer for Pakistan otherwise also. We are in fact one people.
So why do you speak English?
Cricket 🏏 a game that the British introduced to India 😅😅😅😅
@@Guyfaulkes1605 how about chicken tikka masala 😝
And now, India is surpassing its former colonizer in all terms, in economy, international politics and military. This is called historical justice.
And treats its poor just as bad as "the British"
@@northernbias4985na worse
@@NathanBee3 Definitely not! The British had no right to invade countries.
@@NathanBee3Stop trying to defend your country's wrong doing!
@@Maitly1 I'm not British...🙄
It's true Japan was never colonised and transformed itself from a medieval feudal society to a modern industrialised country by the end of the 19th century, but I wouldn't use it for comparison since Japan also went on overseas colonial expansion and conquered Korea and Taiwan
They became technologically advanced from their own merit not because of colonization.
Don’t forget that Japan has been devastated by the Americans due to bombings and two nuclear explosions.
@@Concerned_one
They became advanced due to Western cooperation, kiddo
@@zabrak999 what kind of western cooperation?
They are one of the hardest working people in the world. Sure they may have got some help for about 10 years after the war but they are advanced largely due to their hard work, kiddo.
@@zabrak999 lol the usa only helped japan to set up military bases to fight china and north korea.
its not covered often but the usa raped and killed a fuck ton of people in france when they wanted (french civilians) and did similar stuff to japan and still does this in south korean military bases and okinawa, most are not tried or reported domestically
He makes dozens of false comparisons in the video.
Outstanding. I agree with Spartan1984's comment about the presence of dissenting voices in England and powerful collaborators within India, but for a 10 minute video, this is an immaculate rebuttal to the widespread view that empire was of net benefit to India.
Where is the wide spread view that India benefited. Show me? Virtually all (if not the vast majority) of material published on this topic totally condemns Britain. We've even had books written claiming Churchill deliberately caused the Bengal famine of 1943. An Indian was elected to the House of Commons over 130 years ago, who wrote a devastating critique of the Empire. Yep, we were so racist and intent on hiding our crimes that we elected the guy to parliament. To recap, that's over 130 years ago. Fact check it.
@@leegregorypeck Watch the video. There you will see prominent media voices promoting the view that empire was beneficial.
It is indeed a widespread view, and those who oppose it tend to get attacked...often in quite hysterical terms.
Your repeating the argument about the 'first Indian MP' is not really germane is it? You seem to think it is proof of something or other, particularly that 'we' were not racist. But of course the video does not say Britain colonised and robbed India because of racism. I've never heard anyone make that argument.
@@mikemurray2027 The point remains that a devastating critique was delivered over 130 years ago by an Indian that was elected to parliament. Anti Empire voices have always existed and been heard. Just google 'British Empire crimes' and you might get millions of hits. Anybody that defends the Empire is attacked and totally vilified on social media. (even those that merely want to contextualise atrocities like myself) The vast majority of journalist, academics and commentators critique it. Look at all the books and articles that have been published over the last 50 years. Every crime has been exposed and more besides. There is so much anti-British propaganda out there; from Ireland to India, famines have been described as 'holocausts' and 'genocide'.
You tell me to watch the video, as if that's objective truth. The people involved in Navada Media are Marxists and some of them even self confessed Communists. We keep being told the truth isn't being taught in schools. I'm a teacher and I know just how many teaching resources are available on this topic and how critical they are Britain's role. Here is a direct quote from 'National Geographic for kids':
'The power and wealth that Britain gained as it built its empire came at a price, and tragically, the price was paid largely by the indigenous peoples - tribes and communities who had lived in Britain’s so-called ‘new’ lands for centuries.
The unjust treatment of indigenous peoples ran the course of the British Empire. For example, in North America, local people were taken advantage of by greedy traders, robbed of their land and even faced violence and death at the hands of British settlers.
During the Second World War, India suffered some of the worst famines (lack of food) in human history, partly caused by the British government taking vital supplies away from the Indian people to support the war effort elsewhere - causing the death of millions.
Indigenous peoples in Africa were affected in their millions. The British took valuable materials like gold, salt and ivory out of Africa and sent it back to Britain, and elsewhere. The British were also heavily involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade in West Africa - more on that, in the next section.
Many indigenous peoples, including Indigenous Australians, lost not just their land, food and possessions, but their traditions, too. When British settlers arrived, they forcibly replaced the beliefs, language and traditions of indigenous populations with their own, removing their cultural identities.
Governments and settlers drew up new borders and land boundaries that split the local people into new countries and categories that didn’t represent them or reflect their heritage, history and customs. In some countries, these changes are still a source of conflict, even now.
Today, many indigenous communities are trying to reconnect with the heritage the British tried to erase, by celebrating their cultural identities and protecting them for the future.'
This is just one learning tool that kids and teachers are using today. One Labour MP recently tweeted a picture of the so called 'Scramble for Africa', claiming this topic isn't taught in schools. Simply go onto the TES resources website, (the major online platform which allows teachers to exchange learning materials) type in 'Scramble for Africa' and you will see loads of hits for the very same picture she tweeted. (the one she claimed no school child had ever seen) I don't see any evidence of so called 'whitewash' and defence of the Empire. The opposite is the case. Those defending it are in a tiny minority.
@@leegregorypeck Good grief. I have no idea what you are trying to argue. You seem to be saying that of all the horrors of the British empire, it is you poor 'defenders' of it that are the real victims.
Much, if not most of what we associate with India is a leftover from the British colony. But India is much more than that. It has a rich ancient Vedic civilisation, wisdom and culture that goes back many thousands of years.
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Isn't it weird that almost every country in the world has an independence day except great Britain?
I thought that's what 31st December of 2020 was supposed to be ;).
I literally feel sad for my country...anyways thanks for bringing the truth to the world..liked ur video
The British colonial rulers provided formal education to the oppressed, untouchables and tribals. Otherwise, they would have been slaves to the upper caste Hindus forever.
India was the richest country in the World untill England gave the Queen 👑 all there wealth
The richest in the world 😂😂😂😂
India wasn't a country
@Jo Sm lol
Another misleading narrative is "Mughal empire made India rich".
@A K not true as even during mauryas, guptas India was always richest accounting for more 23%of world gdp so same is case under mughals so it's just continuation. So dev is right
@A K its history simply...in the 800 yrs of islamic rule, sinec they burnt all indian universities, they never built any centre of education dedicated to hard sciences, never invested in the land and imposed extortionary land tax, treated the majority hindu population as second class citizens by imposing jizya(which is a reason why india was never fully converted to islam otherwise the jizya wud stop coming), the state was was geared more towards militarism rather than welfarism, no Indian langauge was dopted either at courts or the residences of the mughal empires, even the indian born princes of mughal emperors were dnied the thrones, anyone who attempted reconciliation with hindus were killed, like dara sikoh....THUS, the HINDU view is the ONLY view because they are rooted inhistorical fats as recorded by historians of thse very empires...this resurrectionof reality is the reason for the Hindutva Juggernaut that seems unstoppable...hindus have NO reason to feel ashamed OR pull back punches
@A K documents left behind by Mughals wud disagree with you...facts are facts...dont care what BS the world believes to be true! i am a decolonised mind...you are not...
@A K lol that's why in recent pew research all minorities said that they are happily living in India and they have faced no persecution... Your lies not gonna hide the truth anymore.... Hindus are getting educated by true history which was whitewash by Congress... Keep crying hindutva wave is going to keep stronger and stronger it's unstoppable... No more lies will be tolerated in India.. U can leave India anytime u want.. U are welcome 🎉
@A K lol BJP gov gets its most of funds from jains who are themselves minority religion in India 😂😂🤣🤣 all minority Bhuddist vote for bjp gov.. Parsis also vote for bjp... Christian's in northeast vote for bjp gov.... For u Muslims are only minority which literally consist 20% of our population 😂😂🤣🤣 cope harder
As a Hong Kong Chinese, I’m disgusted and amazed at how masterful they brainwashed the populace and manipulated them into an obedient workforce. It is surely worthy of a PhD research on how to divide and control through what I call social hierarchy manipulation. HK seems to be only non-white colony that “did economically well” but that is not worth bragging about since the majority of the local Chinese were not beneficiary’s of this economic wealth.
Thank you Aaron; was longing to bring this up!
Just remember not to blame the British people. Blame the British government
We have never been a British colony, but still we have an expression for a bad person - Sleazy as British.
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Like that popular expression ... The integrity and honesty of an Indian
So you judge every Briton by their countries actions 100+ years ago?? That's pretty narrow minded and rude!
@@tristman8413 nooo, of course not; we don't judge them by their actions 100+ years ago only; we consider all the damage they are making now too. :)
@@tristman8413 Better luck next time in another 100 years.
This is amazing! I have been having a a row with a friend who likes to use the line "we gave the Indian's an education system". So happy I was able to forward this!
@Jo Sm What 'liberal democracy' are you talking about? Britain did not have full adult voting until the 1920s, not long before the collapse of the empire.
@@shuathe2nd That's a really pathetic defence. A big boy did it first, then ran away so I did it too.
@@shuathe2nd I hope no one likes injustice. The argument that the world is brutal and unjust is not an actual defence of brutality and injustice.
@Jo Sm Sorry, Jo. I haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
Have you ever read the Communist Manifesto? It says exactly that. Capitalism was a hugely progressive force in human development.
I think perhaps your cartoonish views of your opponents lets you down in this sort of argument.
@Jo Sm The East India Company was a royal chartered company, iinm. It was a private business. I don't really see how that can be called a 'liberal democracy'.
And when the state took over after the first great Indian rebellion, the UK was certainly liberal in the economic sense, but it was definitely not a democracy of any sort.
The man that was interviewed names the civil service as one of Britain's gifts to India. Actually, the civil service actually came from China, per the Trevelyan-Northcote proposal in the 1850s which called for a meritocratic, exam-based system of selecting government officials based on China's 'Mandarin' system. And when the Economist asserted that no 'Oriental' government had ever said it was its duty to keep the people alive, it was simply lying: in fact, taking care of the people and helping them prosper, not just keeping them alive, was the central underpinning of China's Mandate of Heaven. Fail at this task, and Heaven would punish the rulers with armed rebellions or natural disasters or both, marking the loss of the Heavenly Mandate.
Britain ground India into dust. It is still recovering from the impacts of colonialism. But what gives me so much pleasure is thanks to BREXIT India can now dictate terms to Britain
Do you know the greatest irony of Brexit? Many of these pro Brexit supporters had one subconscious goal. To prevent more Brown, Muslim or African immigrants coming into England. They made up various excuses as to why the EU was detrimental to the England. Well thanks to Brexit all of the White immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe are beginning to leave. Boris Johnson's government has made a deal with India to allow for more Indian workers to come in. These stupid English Nationalists have now caused more Brown immigrants into their country.
@@grimgoreironhide9985 Boris Johnson is a traitor
@eQuilibrium 2 You people are disintegrating and fragmenting into pieces. The Great Britain is becoming Britishtan. First you learn how to deal with it.
@eQuilibrium 2 First you Great Britishers have to acquire self awareness. When you know who you really are and your ancestral roots you will not mock India. Your language English itself came from Sanskrit what you call a Proto Indo-European language and all your knowledge came from Vedic science. But you people got lost in ignorance in the middle and forgot your roots. What can we do?
@eQuilibrium 2 "ex colonial masters" Chinese bot detected, why are you pretending to be British ?
Then, after the British left , India destroyed itself .
Seeping back into the darkness of ignorance, caste hatred and tribalism.
Some are just born to be like that
@@tankman20064
Culture or inherent personality traits?
The eternal question no one wants to answer.
So you telling me that india under the british empire was better?
Britain do have class system
It is however, odd, that today, India remains a follower of the British in so many things. The number one destination for Indian professionals is Britain and the United States. The number one destination for education by Indians who could afford it, is to Britain. This paints a rather incomprehensible picture of whether India has really awoken from its colonial past or not.
odd ? you my friend have no understanding of cultural subjugation. India was a world powerhouse of knowledge, culture and wealth up until the vultures from the Islamic lands started pouring in in the early 1100s. Since then there has been a queue of uncivilized goons from all over the western world. The time when both the middle east and the Europeans were living on trees and eating the weekly hunt India had established universities teaching mathematics, economics, astronomy, politics and you name it. But what they lived through over the next thousand years, specially the last 300 years has changed the old india into this new mindless western follower. its not odd...its exactly what was coming.
Sadly, we were forced to learn English. So it was forced on India's population. You cannot say that it was a good thing. First of all, why did they have to invade countries if was not to strip countries of their resources. Obviously living that far north on the globe was disadvantageous to them. That was why they colonised other countries for resources. It was despicable. Shame on them!
Creating an association between class and caste was actually one of their most insidious design
The caste system existed long before the British created India.
Ghandi was one of this class/caste systems' greatest exponents. Was he not?
@@S-North no it did not exist before British 😠 atleast not this severely
@@S-North caste is not Indian word but Portuguese word so white washed into india
@@sureshpatel4095 The origin of the word is from Latin.
The word caste is used in English to describe the Hindu system of social stratification.
A practice that was present in the sub continent way way before the British created India.
Varna Ashrama Dharma, the ancient Indian caste-system goes back to Vedic times. Read Purusha-sukta in Rig Veda. Assiduously practised for millennia before the British arrived in India. Mind you we had our own version of this venerable Indo-European institution in the Three Estates of medieval Europe which existed until the fall of the Ancien Regime. A common inheritance of Indians and Europeans from our prehistoric past, you might say 🙂
You should take into consideration that India and Tibet were also the jewel of human spiritual development...
Thanks for your honesty.
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Suerte qué son las joyas de la espiritualidad la India y el Tibet!!! con los sistemas feudales qué los dirigian o dirigen!! ¿¿¿Una cosa el estado qué permite la división de la sociedad en 3 castas, exclusión, pobreza, represión y sin política nacionalista es la joya de la espiritualidad??? Aaaa creer en miles de dioses, muchos de ellos luciferianos es parte de su riqueza???
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And in the mean time Brazil committed genocide in Paraguay resulting in the deaths of 90% of the male population…
Enters Nepal . Your “Tibet and India” link up is incomplete without Nepal when it has been the bridge to link China and India since dawn of civilization….
And the fact that you used Tibet but not China shows that you are one of the person who has given up to media and Government scams …. Indian Civilization is incomplete without China ….
only one update is that when british came to India, India was under Maratha empire and not Mughal empire.
Stole 45 trillion just from India and yet only has 3 trillion GDP today. Math doesn't add up
they spent it on war and to develop their country . if you sell britain now it would cost more than 45 trillion . not entire GDP is liquidated .
that's why britishers never good at maths. whole uk was destroyed in ww1 and ww2
2:42, ah yes the British Empire, so loved democracy, it didn't give working class men the right to vote until after WW1.
...wait.
Not just working class men - an entire half of the population (women of all classes) didn't have the right to vote until after WWI. The British Empire DEFINITELY didn't care for democracy (or the 'emancipation of women' for that matter).
@Jo Sm and what about my comment suggests that ‘progressive’ nations should be held to 21st century standards when it comes to things like voting rights? It was evidently a response to the hypocrisy of England claiming to uphold and ‘love’ democracy when working class men and half the population (women) weren’t yet enfranchised.
@Jo Sm Criticising a country that claims to ‘love’ democracy, something they are supposedly implementing around the globe via imperialism, yet simultaneously has over half of their population disenfranchised is a valid point of contention. Whataboutism doesn’t absolve the British Empire of the atrocities committed in its name. Did we just watch the same video?
@Jo Sm regardless of when you enfranchise the majority of your population, you do not get to masquerade your violent imperialism as a spreading of ‘democracy’ if you have over half of your population disenfranchised at home. What kind of ‘democracy’ was it that they were ‘spreading’, exactly?
@Jo Sm What on earth are you doing defending the British Empire under a Novara Media video? You’re in the wrong place mate
And before the mughal rule of India, gdp was 38% of the world. 1000 years of constant wars have reduced us to what we are today. Dont worry tough, we are back on track.
Before mughals? Under khiljis?
source?
@@LOL-vm8hs Magadh Empire
@@LOL-vm8hs Khiljis ruled some parts of India for 30 years. Do you realise Indian history is of 6000 years?
@@zerpy9540 but I sure know in relative recent past before India's downfall under mughals subcontinent had an economy as big as US today. Education as good as Europe.
I wonder if they’ll put this on the curriculum?
They are more likely put 'The History of Our Great and Beloved and Glorious Leader Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson' and how he single handedly liberated Britain from the tyranny of the EU and the evils of Wokism by engaging in a heroic culture war than anything you will find on Novara TV.
@Jo Sm whataboutism at its finest...well done.
@Jo Sm usual right wing bell end argument, ‘what about Islam and India’ whataboutism, not sure why you used a question mark either? thanks for the inspiring debate Bell end.
Ain't enough British history in the curriculum the whole British empire should be taught good and the bad
No they will not -period.
As much as I enjoy the gardens at Powis Castle, the India Collection has always disgusted me. It represents the amount of wealth Robert Clive, followed by his son, gleefully looted and displayed as their right as Englishmen. A staggeringly disgusting amount.
@Jo Sm Ahh the old, "Well someone else did these bad things, therefore it's perfectly fine for us to have done them too" argument. Whether it's slavery, thievery, genocide or rape - just because someone else got there first doesn't excuse everyone that follows.
@Jo Sm Yep. Seems to be working out really well for us ...not.
@@littlewoodimp the British who think that colonization was a good thing have a skewed moral compass. Their arguments prove that.
Historical peices are.still being stolen inc ludimg British library.The Buddha of Gupta period was stolen from national. Museum of India few years ago
British don't have history so they started looting every civilization
Plot twist : Now East India Company owns by couple of Indian Millionaires 😆
Yeah give them a few pennies to make them feel better.
@@chrisholland1504 well they are. An Indian company is the Highest Employer of the UK
@@shubirshergill2430 Britannia is the best thing the British ever made
@certain Just found out that "Britannia" the biscuit company was found in India. So I was wrong
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 Lack of education is visible from your comment. Economy , inflation are two main topics to answer your stupid question. Not only India, whole world is facing these issue. Well I will suggest you to study these two topics ' inflation ' & ' economy ' to better understand current situation of India.
Can't imagine people like you still exists in 20's. Shame on you!
1st time I've watched Navara Media present history rather than news. However if you don't know your history, it does becomes news to you. Very interesting and superbly put together. Loved it, and in the light of the relatively recent growing awareness of British colonial history, it was very welcome and more would be appreciated.
England wasn't so bad if Indians volunteered to fight for England in wars.
That’s a credit to Indians, not England.
I find the song at 0:31 weirdly catchy...does anyone have a link to the full song?
In general great content. This certainly needs to feature more in the British history curriculum (to put it mildly).
Once I saw the Mughal Empire mentioned I knew it was gonna be wrong. The Mughals only stayed on as titular figures when the British really got power.
The Maratha Empire was the top dog then
Yup
Not quite top enough to win the 3rd Battle of Panipat though
@@PastPresented No. There are legit political reasons why the British preferred the narrative of them taking over from the Mughals.
Coz the Mughals were a foreign ppl who were until Aurangazeb who had the full support of the local people and even assimilated into the society.
By portraying themselves as their successors, a narrative of another foreign invader who will naturally assimilate into society could be spun.
And for that matter, no empire wins every war. Vietnam for America. Ain Jalut for the Mongols. Carrhae and Cannae for the Romans. Hope you get the point
@@caniblmolstr4503 What does that have to do with the Marathas getting soundly beaten in 1761 by a force which was neither Mughal nor British (but was partly Indian)?
@@PastPresented Told you part of the reason why the British liked the Mughal narrative. Knew you missed it when you tried the gotcha question
"History is always written by Winners."
Except when it isn't, because winners don't write history, historians do
You cannot change history. Doesn't matter how bad the "winners" were. Truth always comes out.
@@kushagrapal8689 Yes but it still would be less known
@@psmonish8735 well truth is only found out by a few wise people. The majority of the dumbfu*ks in the world would never know about the truth anyway. They are only there to be a puppet of the 'winners" and manipulated by their lies.
@@kushagrapal8689 Wait did you call me wise?
The British gave India clean running water, railways , medicine and a working system of education.
Majority of the British didn't even shower and were shocked when they saw indians cleaning themselves daily their first time. They gave railways that were only used to STEAL
Did they ask Britain for anything? And none of that justifies the plunder, exploitation and death…
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much." Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness
Lol 😂 may your british break apart again into 5 countries
If the empire was a favor then let us return it.
Hahaha … good one👏👏👏
The British are too advanced india is basically the largest public toilet
@@roy5k2 In your dreams may be . Let em dare dare n do the same this time to find out the consequences .
@@ThePythonpowered lol you don't even make ur own weapons, you'd have to get help from russia, china or the US
@@roy5k2 I think I can LOL now on seeing how ignorant n bullish a few of you are .Brits would indeed seem advanced ,they stole everything from India , not only gold n riches but also the tech far exceeding their times like rocket engineering n shipping ( 😉 reached India by wooden ships n sailed home in Iron ones, they even wondered how Indians made Iron float). No one stays at the bottom for too long right? .BTW I'm Indian feeling proud that my country never Invaded, stole, raped, cheated, committed mass murdered, played jackal or any of the horrors that Brits did. Dare to say where you r from first rather than hiding your nationality knowing it would cause an even serious debate?Or I guess maybe you are one from the so called advanced Nation?
7:09 This reminds of Country Balls where Britian says "where is my cow,I mean India."
2:39 the hypocrisy... Ohh man!!!!
If the deeds were happened in today's world, the whole humanity would scream against them.
What Brits (and also Muhgals)did on Indian continent, is incomparable with hitlar and other cruel killers!!!
Great video, as ever, from Novara.
The thing that hurts me the most is that they have forgotten the destruction done by them.
Well how do we know India wasn't in a mess before?
@@alastair9446 how can India be in a mess when it was the most economically propurous country in the world. You don't have to believe me, just go and google everything.
It's not that British have forgotten. They just don't care. Honestly they couldn't care less that they've ruined other people's lives and countries. They only care about themselves.
@@alastair9446 Shut up Alistair.
@@nmp3132 Make me.
Finally! Happy to see this coming from a British channel. If only everyone in Britain knew about the EMPIRE!
I think everyone does know about empire, thanks very much.
Name an empire that did no bad?
Salty much?
The irony that a British guy still making money out of Indians lol.
@@Joe-jg5vs an empire is made by conquering others but it is how you treat them that decides a good or bad empire
A quote from a book called Indian Summer : The secret history of the end of an Empire - " In the beginning, there were two nations. One was a vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive swath of the earth. The other was an undeveloped, semi-feudal realm, riven by religious factionalism and barely able to feed its illiterate, diseased and stinking masses. The first nation was India. The second was England."
Over everything over every oppression INDIA is still strive to become global power and we will. Proud to be an INDIAN 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
What about the Arab , Turkey, Persian and Afghan invasion in India ? Why only British ?
Whataboutism at its finest. If you wanna watch videos about those topics then watch them instead of a video about this topic.
Such a shame that India still chooses to side with the west, instead of focus making Asia stronger like joining ASEAN.
But joining imperialist clubs like the QUAD....
British destroy lndia..now lndia become British slave..US destroy Japan, now Japan become US slaves.
India look down on Asean
@@lenarobinson438 Unfortunately ruling class of India will never lose control for the betterment of the poor. So a bit of wishful thinking I am afraid...
@@bernkoh343 Britain runs on investment from India .. it's all about business... India is the largest investor in uk....uk also invests in India..
@@lenarobinson438 "The Indian state of Kerala has done better than other states as they have had communist governments. Education and health is better than other states and you don't see people begging in the streets.."
It's because Kerala lies in west coast entirely, west coast was the area where missionary culture impacted the most. Kerala got missionaries who opened schools in Kerala and Kerala already had 47% literacy rate by 1947 before the independence, since then, the literacy rate has increased to 96%. But other states too have jumped from 13% to 75% since independence. So Kerala had early advantage at start. But this doesn't hide the fact that Kerala has one of the highest unemployment rate in India, at a staggering 36% thanks to the communist govt. Most Keralites have to go to Gulf Countries to get job and money which they then use for development in Kerala.
Moreover, Kerala had the highest ISIS recruitment throughout India, and the cases of *Dowry(means any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given by the bride to the groom or by the groom to the bride or.)* are much higher than any other place in India. The govt. of Kerala always falls short in curbing covid19 cases like most states, they might have prevented deaths compared to other states but they too have underreported it.
Britain taught them cricket though .
Nicely constructed. My only confusion arose from the original map where the empire wasn't coloured pink!
A product of a well-meaning but still difficult English comprehensive school, it was only really at university that I really began to understand the role of the British Empire as a political and economic reality rather than the weird partial myths that passed then and still pass as "British" history. In fact it's worse than that - most of the so-called British history that I was taught up to A level even neglected Ireland, Scotland, Wales and, to be honest, most of the English outside of the "political nation" (aside from the odd token topic, such as the home front in WW2 - don't the syllabuses love that war?) and yet I know that my teachers were actually very good for this subject.
School history remains an insidious tool of ideological control through gross simplification. I guess this is true of most nations, but it's too important to remain content with this. Maybe they could use your video in schools, even if only to challenge complacent textbook views. The wider ignorance of the realities of British history and political education are what has got us to this point. Some of Ash Sarkar's explainers could easily do a similar job.
I'm so pleased to have viewed this. Thanks Aaron.
@Jo Sm yes shit theory is also dunkbunked and history should be written again with india view on it
In Ireland all they taught us was " Burn everything English but their coal".
Ironically many ex-colonial states have decided to burn the British democratic parliamentary systems and freedoms which they left. Now aside from being less free than us, the average Briton's wealth has gone up considerably compared to those living in most African and Asian colonies since the independence of those nations, with per-capita wealth doubling and tripling between us and them, partially due to the economic growth of the UK since the 1960's, but also due to incompetent and authoritarian (predominantly revolutionary leftist) regimes ruling over the said ex-colonial states. And for those colonies which are richer now like Hong Kong, ask them whether they prefer the prospect of being ruled by the British in comparison to the Chinese Communists Party
That explains a lot of the breakfasts I've had in B&Bs
@@jamesthompson9003 Ah yes the glorious British democracy.
The Phillips map on my classroom wall showed the British Empire in Pink and we still celebrated Empire Day (24th May). I think he French Empire was in Green and the Belgium in Brown.
i think blue is the common colour on maps for the french empire but i guess they could all be different
I'm so glad you made this, it made me think twice about Winston Churchill, I'm Pakistani and living in Scotland left me confused as I was not once taught IN SCHOOL that the British empire did these horrible things until today I didn't know Winston Churchill was racist. I am so glad that I'm becoming more educated through TH-cam and my family telling me what happened
Churchill was a vile genocidal racist.
Churchill not only a racist but also a war criminal.
This Indian narrative fits in with what my high school history teacher in Australia taught us about British ethnic cleansing of Aboriginals in Tasmania in the 19th century under the motto: If it´s black and moves, then shoot it. He also told us that historians habitually downplay this type of episode, as it runs counter to the we´re the good-guy credo.
Ha true. I think some historians attach their pride and ego with History and find it difficult to accept the truth
Aaron I appreciate your the research done in this piece. But, as an eighteenth-century specialist in cross-cultural encounters, I feel the piece here has missed on two important points which many scholars on either side of the debate about the British Empire tend to ignore:
1-Many voices in Britain (of course in their different ways) feared the whole idea of empire in the eighteenth century; in fact, the East India India Company was loathed by many in Britain (Edmund Burke and Adam Smith wrote fascinating accounts about the monopolies and corruption of the Company; many plays and novels during the period referred to the moral corruption of the East India Company and its British Nabobs). So in this story of empire, I sense that we are missing the idea that that many in Britain showed dissent from the mainstream narrative.
2-Many Indian rulers during the eighteenth and nineteenth century cooperated with the British, French and Dutch in order to enrich their coffers and consolidate their powers. I believe looking at this point could serve to show a more complex picture of the British Empire than the polarized arguments we often encounter in the research done about the topic.
I'm a bit skeptical about the 'corruption of the Company' stuff. I remember a quote from lord Elgin (the one who burned the Summer Palace, not the one who stole the marbles) where he was extremely negative about the colonial project, but mainly on the basis that he felt that the chinese, and the way that the europeans treated the chinese, were the causes of moral corruption - with this weird thing where he basically blamed the chinese for both parts.
I wonder if this was a typical sort of mindset at the time - there are peculiar kinds of dissent that really brutal systems nourish, as a sort of harmless way for intelligent and sensitive people who are doing appalling things to let off steam. It's a bit like the charity sector - you do some kind of performative mourning about how awful it all is, before going back to your real work.
Both excellent points which expand on the video without undermining it's message. Thanks for sharing a bit of your expertise :)
Surely such a complex subject has more than just two sides? Or have I misunderstood what you mean by "either side of the debate" ?
Also, when you say that some voices in Britain feared empire, were any of those voices in power and making decisions?
In politics words count for little but actions have consequences.
Its a 10 minute piece?
1. It wasn't many
2. They were coerced, no-one wanted to cooperate.
3. Just because you choose to see it that way does not make it true.
Ask the millions of intelligent and hardworking Indians why they prefer to migrate and live in Great Britain and USA rather than in Bharat Mata. Today the same country is being ripped off right left and centre by the corrupt native politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen. It's 74 years guys, time to make our own destiny rather than shed tears over bygones. Let's not forget Mallya, Modi, Chokshi and the other patriotic Indians.
Exactly. Japan was bombed to bits in WW2, yet it managed to rebuild a prosperous economy in no time. Why didn't India? Because they never had one to begin with.
@@RDJ2 Japan and the other main powers involved in the war were completely decimated - their economies were shattered but they rebuilt it by hard work and dedication. India was not directly affected but thanks to continued bad governance and corrupt practices was never able to build itself a strong economy. After 74 years India prefers the old colonial narrative unlike Japan which unveiled the bullet train after 25 years. There were many countries which were ruled by the British but that didn't stop them from becoming strong economic powers after independence.
Ur explanation shows ur biased mindset. If millions of Indians work outside India there are over a billion Indians working in india. Also we have become the 5th largest economy and have 4th strongest military which we have built. We have our own set of problems like any other country which we r trying to solve. And we will continue to speak about the atrocities committed by the British and the Mughals till the whole world knows about it.
There are foreigners telling how Britishers destroyed India where as In Indian telling how Britishers were good for India
There is a lot of content related to china on youtube but rarely any related to India..
Keep up the good Work Guys
the content on china isn't good lol, its always
"china bad" etc
India is UK's white elephant. More content about this please! And Malta and Gibraltar too. But never as bad as India.
The mughals were defeated by the marathas, after that the marathas were a dominant force in india, after that the british played divide and conquer and then took it all.