Beyond Borders International Festival 2018: The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders

[@awibs57]

What an absolutely spectacular lecture. Thank you so much for recording and sharing this.

[@stargazer6675]

This is a brilliant lecture.

[@adamt4051]

That's his book Anarchy

[@royanjan1966]

Well described William, good to hear an empathic Britisher

[@anant1236]

The person speaking is William Darmplye writer of Last Mughal and Anarchy he is agreat Scholar of History and i have not seen anyone telling history the way he tells

[@douglasherron7534]

That's because he tells a good story... rather than recounting history.

[@restricted6364]

depends what access to languages u have

[@felixalmeida481]

I’ve been watching this video upto 4:56 so far and, frustratingly, I see WD clicking his remote to move slides. Not a slide in sight for this beleaguered viewer...probably jut as well. What’s with the photographer?!

[@marquessraj3424]

The anarchy is a scholarly work of great erudition & research. The events that led to the establishment of the EIC in India are described in elegant prose. India owes historians like Will Darlymple a lot. Another great read is John Keay's - The honourable company another scholarly work.

[@zxzv1]

Is it possible for William Dalrymple to do a documentary on Anglo Indians? Thank you.

[@johannafreeburn3061]

great lecture, but somewhat reduced by not seeing the graphics. would have been nice to appreciate the complete thing

[@johnnyjohn5440]

Fabulous stuff!!

[@tresajessygeorge210]

THANK YOU.

[@MrDebranjandutta]

Bill is such a treat to listen to

[@opticnerve8927]

Another's Scots Legend

[@user-nk3xl1xt4q]

At 30:00 interesting point ahead,also at 34:50

[@philiproseel3506]

Not surprisingly, books such as (Colonel) George Malleson's, The Indian Mutiny of 1857, (published 1891), are much more slanted towards the British.

[@restricted6364]

Do you think this author is doing to the same thing

[@michealcurrie8272]

No higher God, than the truth.

[@douglasherron7534]

What is the "truth" though...?

[@amitanand2532]

Why is he putting every blame on EIC and absolving British govt and people of crime they had committed in india...they are also equally 'more' responsible...

[@douglasherron7534]

Are you personally responsible for everything done by India/ Indian companies throughout the world?

[@jbtoulon3041]

His previous quotation from Afghan sources stating that the Englishman rides his donkey of desire into the field of stupidity understates what English imperialism has really done

[@tonyt7948]

Clive beat Indians at there own game

[@RaitaNag]

He did not beat. He cheated. That is not beating. The fact that you still think that means you haven't got a clue on ethics

[@vatsal7640]

​​@@RaitaNagthat counts as winning you wokey😂😂😂 Lol do you think there's fair games in a war???

[@Main.Account]

Well, there’s an hour of my life I won’t get back. However, it saved me the trouble of buying his book. Aside for the first question that he lightly brushes off, some context would have been nice. I mean 10 seconds on Google/Wikipedia (yes, I am aware that it’s not a primary source) leads to: “Historian K. S. Lal in his book Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India claims that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD, the population of the Indian subcontinent decreased from 200 to 170 million.[10] In Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India meanwhile he claimed that it fell from 200 million to 120 million by establishment of the Mughal empire because of killings, deportations, dissemination, wars, and famines. He stated that his estimates were tentative and did not claim any finality.[11][12] These population estimates, however, have been questioned by Simon Digby[13] and Irfan Habib.[14] Will Durant called the Muslim conquest of India "probably the bloodiest story in history",[15] but this is not accepted by some contemporary historians.[16]”

[@abidaziz8856]

Sitting in a sofa and eating bacon with wine won't bring knowledge from Google or some k. Lal's biased history book. William Delrympl digged his knowledge while living on site of this topics for years and years. You have no knowledge & hence right to open your mouth on this topic. Just listen & learn how England became England by plundering treachery.

[@douglasherron7534]

@@abidaziz8856 And you have spent how long researching the basis for your comment?

[@RaitaNag]

That was an hour of your life. Hmm. Not even worth as speck of dirt

[@barbarabonnie576]

Kind of playing to the crowd with his intro.

[@adamt4051]

Thakhte Taous peacock Thorne

[@tonyt7948]

Clive beat India at there own game

[@douglasherron7534]

Jeeze, this guy really does like to flaunt his self-determined "moral superiority" doesn't he...?

[@atifjmi]

East India Company just looted India. India’s share in world GDP was around 35% before EIC. And it was the reason they came here. It says a lot about our might. Mughals didn’t send any wealth anywhere. India was a economic superpower (peak during Akbar and Jehangir). British just looted. Even railways was to send goods to ports faster (not to help others), education was to make clerks required for EIC. British were much bigger villain than we originally thought.

[@opticnerve8927]

Stop complaining India had a bigger population, bigger army, and the British lived 5000 miles away India was just not smart enough or intelligent enough

[@douglasherron7534]

So, you would like Pakistan to take over India and start running it like the Mughals did?

[@riyadougla539]

@@opticnerve8927 Without the Mughals the petty local kings didn't stand a chance against the EIC.

[@cumar9875]

@@riyadougla539asshol

[@rakhimukerji7937]

For 😢 are reading history which we can not change

[@subtlethingsinlife]

Fills my heart with agony and humiliation , so ironical , that I earn my living by speaking the language of my ancestors' tormentors, The only thing that came good out of British Rule was the uprooting of the Muslim fiefdoms. But, still 1000 years of slavery and ignominy , dont know what the destiny holds ......

[@vivekdarknight6024]

Raghav garg The East India Company abolished Sati 1832, Legalised Widow Remarriage in 1856 Established Courts ... Employed Dalit in Army... While they did loot India, they did something good too...

[@deepjyotibasak4436]

@@vivekdarknight6024 abolition of sati and remarriage of widows is not sole act of British but actually it is cumulative acts of Indian intellectuals too .....

[@vivekdarknight6024]

Deepjyoti Basak U r correct... But before British, There was no platform for liberals to express opinion... Before British, There was no court Punishment given by Zamindars as per Manu Dharma...

[@deepjyotibasak4436]

@@vivekdarknight6024 oh certainly bro ...but after british ....???? They gave us freedom to express ....but what about gaging like acts over freedom of press ....????

[@vivekdarknight6024]

Deepjyoti Basak Yes, They did suppress... But overall, they acted with some conscience... They could have easily banned congress party...