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[@raulroopchand3492]

When he says the British invented India, he's referring to India as a modern democratic nation state, not Indian civilisation.

[@Muckylittleme]

It is apt that it started with the Life of Brian Roman scene because the Indian's hatred of Brit's would be the same as Brit's hating the Roman's for their occupation which was far more brutal. We don't we recognise how many advancements came with their civilisation and said, "Call that a Civilisation? Hold my beer!"

[@angr3819]

by and large they weren't civilised. The islamic invasion of India and subsequent rule was probably the most bloody ever. The British put a stop to that then when India demanded its Independence, the majority of both Hindus and Muslims demanded partition before we left. Both threatened civil war and in fact they had more or less starred that, until partition. The British left there were also under such threat they had to do it asap. Still it was achieved and what remained India was Islam free. It was they themselves who let Islam and mosques back in and there is trouble to this day because of it. Also, Hindus outside of India are peaceful but not always in their homelands. Some still mass murder christian too. India wasn't a sovereign country under the rule of its own indigenous people before the British. Too much for here so go learn. The British cleaned up the filthy Ganges and other rivers. The British also put a stop to suti, burning widows alive. The British have them the best sewage system in the world in 1870. Better than our own! Indians let it break down, not maintained nor updated. Recently, the British treasury, OUR tax money, was paid to Japan to install up to date new toilets which are strangley similar to our old straw instead of flushing water toilets. However, they are modern materials and easily cleaned and kept up. Do I believe India landed anything on the moon 😂 Many Indians had and still now do use their lowest caste, the untouchables, to take small carrier bags of their waste and dispose of it. They pay with scraps of food. What would you suppose the lowest caste do with that waste? Hmmm. Too much more for here.

[@davebrown9707]

No he means india as a single country before Britain came india was many warring kingdoms

[@fkjfkrmrk]

@@davebrown9707 britain was warring with it's self for most of it's history..

[@davebrown9707]

@@fkjfkrmrk I never said it wasnt. What's your point?

[@prp3231]

Also note that land of Bharat also gave the greatest minds ever to grace the planet. The Buddha is widely known around the world. Other great minds were Shankaracharya, Ramanujan, Ramakrishna, Lord Chaitanya, Thyagraja, Guru Gobind Singhji and many others. These personalities elucidated ways to free the mind from material bondage and to find real bliss. The concept of Time and Space, the nature of the Universe, the nature of humans etc all taught in detail in ancient times. This ancient civilisation still exists today as it ever has, and will continue to do so while this colonial power and that colonial power comes and goes. What is real always survives while what is false is temporary.

[@jang3412]

I saw a KZbin video the other day which explained a lot more. than I already knew. I wonder if other people might find it interesting. The video is: The weird accident that started the British Empire.

[@stephenkebbell7082]

I really don't think he was defending the British Empire. The title of this comes from the scene in The Life of Brian, "What did the Romans do for us?"

[@Muckylittleme]

I think we can all agree conquest is bad, but the fact is it was the norm for all peoples and civilisations in the time of Empire. There were many Empires before the British Empire and almost all were fare more brutal and gave little in return to the peoples they conquered, indeed enslavement or death were the norm for the vanquished in older Empires. I think the British Empire gets demonised because it was the last great empire of the Imperialist powers. In truth no nation or people have given more tot he World than the British through their inventions from life saving medicines to labour saving devices, to farming and governance practices and Britain was the first country to ban slavery and the only nation to set about ending the global slave trade. Essentially the British civilised many areas and made life much better for their people and gave them a brighter future but all that is concentrated upon is the wrongdoing. Of course that is important history that should be told, but it should done in context. For example the British were rightfully demonised for the massacre of unarmed protesters although that was not policy, it was an officer who lost his head and ordered his soldiers to fire and was later court martialled but forgotten are the Islamic invasions of India and the genocide of millions of Hindus, still the biggest genocide in human history yet the Brits are the bad guys for killing a few hundred Indians over 2 centuries? I'm not saying that was okay, it was terrible, but compared to the worse genocide in history it is nothing. History has been warped.

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

Yes and an awful lot more things

[@JJ-of1ir]

It was the British that drove out the Mughals from India and set the slaves free.

[@robthomson7350]

❤ I've got nothing to say 👏

[@Stand663]

The British fought slavers everywhere they went. The Arabs were the most heinous of slavers . Why the British embarked on this enormous crusade ? Nobody knows. Maybe it was their Christian principles. It was the church who first raised the question after all .

[@fitzjameswood5486]

And turned a country with 25% of the world's GDp into country with only 4% of the world's GDP. It's called fleecing.. And Mughals? Israel? Balfour hated Jews (lovely man) But the British love a bit of ethnic cleansing and taught the Israelis how (Aud Wingate...who Monty believed was a complete nutter..trust me, Monty was right!) genociding the natives a British past time; ask the Indians..how many died in the totally preventable Bengal famine? A million? Ask Mr. Churchill...but we did give them the railways...this Australian is a complete twerp!

[@bernadettekenaghan3246]

The British were the ones that banned slavery

[@MrDunkycraig]

@@Seevawonderloafthe brits ended slavery id like to remind you.

[@darthwiizius]

We never claim to be perfect, we Brits were born out of fire that lasted thousands of years across Europe. But, for all the bad deeds we committed we were a catalyst for progress with an almost evangelical zeal to embrace it, accelerate it, and spread it. We had our time and we made the most of it, not even nuclear war will turn the clocks back now and our contributions and revolutions will last as long as Human civilisation exists.

[@braddbradd5671]

Thats what happens when you invent the Industrial revolution thats what really changed the world, that and the railway ,before that every one in the world only went as far as a horse can ride then youd have to stay over night and feed and rest your horse so people really stayed local .But then the traines came along then it was cars and now we have space ships

[@robbie_]

That's an interesting point. Systems Competition. When you have a homogenous civilisation, you lose that. So much of progress is based around it. I wonder what is lost by globalisation.

[@darthwiizius]

@@robbie_ Globalisation is like all economic upheavals, it comes with winners and losers. Workers in developed economies see a loss of work and competition on remaining workers wages and conditions. The business owners make more money, developing economies get to accelerate their economies in the short and medium term through the corporate exploitation of their people until their economy grows to the point that they are no longer competitive with now less developed countries who next become exploited as the production gets moved again. Now, in the very long term eventually there will be (in theory) no countries at the bottom to be exploited, but this comes at the expense of one set of people over another lasting potentially generations.

[@gigteevee6118]

This isn’t you’re standard KZbin discussion 😂 Excellent points all round. As someone born and who lives in London the wide sweep of the Empire is clear every day, and the best thing it gave the world, the cultural mix and constant push for more runs off the waves of our history and future!

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

I am always amazed that everyone on this channel is so ignorant about how the british advanced india and turned it from a medieval slave-based hellhole into a modern country with human rights and democracy. Everything regarding human freedom that indians enjoy today came from Britain, and nowhere else. Democracy, human rights, independent courts, private property, the ability to choose your religion, where you live, your job, basic things like that. 90% of indians were slaves before the british arrived, and women were literally property. So if you enjoy not being a slave, thank the British, because nobody else lifted a finger to free you in all of history. Oh, and it was the Brits who made india into a country, before that it was a just geographical region.

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

The hell hole you describe is exactly your country before 17the century, it was true for every ancient civilizations - Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Romans, Greeks all of them had dark periods, India being an flourishing ancient civilization also had it's decay, it's just that we were decaying when others in world were starting to build back, it takes 100s of years to build back a civilization like China and India. They surely are coming for the decaying west now. Hope we don't turn out like the westerners in past. Lol

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

You don't know all of history Tommy. Stop reading British government propaganda, read Indian, Africans and Chinese accounts of British rule you'll surely get a different perspective. But I guess you won't like it. Lol

[@gauravrainck]

BRITAIN ALSO ANNIHILATED SO MANY BILLIONS OF INDIAN PEOPLE, RELIGION, CULTUTURE AND INDIAN TRADE THAT HOLOCAUST WAS JUST A STROLL IN THE GARDEN BY COMPARISON AND BRITAIN ALSO LOOTED MORE THAN 45 TRILLION POUNDS FROM INDIA TURNING IT INTO ONE OF THE POOREST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WHEN THOSE PEOPLE LEFT INDIA WHICH USED TO BE CALLED "A SPARROW OF GOLD" IN THE 16TH CENTURY TURNING IT INTO THE WORLD'S WORST BASKET CASE THAT INDIA WAS IN 1947................. IT'S SO UNFORTUNATE THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU NOT ONLY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA ABOUT INDIA BEFORE BRITISHERS' 'DIVIDE AND RULE' INVASION OF INDIA, BUT YOU PEOPLE ARE STILL LIVING IN 19TH CENTURY BRITAIN ........... WE CAN FORGIVE YOU ALL TODAY BECAUSE YOU DON'T MATTER,.................... 🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🎉🎉

[@johnbruce2868]

@@ajaxjaiswal3442 You can always detect the hatred concomitant with envy because the objective of the author is to destroy something they conceive of as prideful in the ownership of another person and they invariably resort to ad hominem personal slanders towards that person, frequently of a sly racist kind ("Tommy").

[@angr3819]

​@@ajaxjaiswal3442The islamic invasion of India and subsequent rule was probably the most bloody ever. The British put a stop to that then when India demanded its Independence, the majority of both Hindus and Muslims demanded partition before we left. Both threatened civil war and in fact they had more or less starred that, until partition. The British left there were also under such threat they had to do it asap. Still it was achieved and what remained India was Islam free. It was they themselves who let Islam and mosques back in and there is trouble to this day because of it. Also, Hindus outside of India are peaceful but not always in their homelands. Some still mass murder christian too. India wasn't a sovereign country under the rule of its own indigenous people before the British. Too much for here so go learn. The British cleaned up the filthy Ganges and other rivers. The British also put a stop to suti, burning widows alive. The British have them the best sewage system in the world in 1870. Better than our own! Indians let it break down, not maintained nor updated. Recently, the British treasury, OUR tax money, was paid to Japan to install up to date new toilets which are strangley similar to our old straw instead of flushing water toilets. However, they are modern materials and easily cleaned and kept up. Do I believe India landed anything on the moon 😂 Many Indians had and still now do use their lowest caste, the untouchables, to take small carrier bags of their waste and dispose of it. They pay with scraps of food. What would you suppose the lowest caste do with that waste? Hmmm. Too much more for here.

[@tallthinkev]

No England, no cricket

[@sandemike]

Or Rugby

[@tallthinkev]

@@sandemike or football, lawn tennis, table tennis, ice hockey, golf, baseball, badminton, squash

[@pratosaurusrex1128]

@@tallthinkevgolf and arguably football is Scottish. Make sure no Scot sees this comment 🤣

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

India has many great Indian sports. Come see out our national games. It's just because you guys had colonies to spread your games otherwise, you were still playing these games on the tiny island. Props to colonisation. But I guess now Brits are again feeling proud of colonialism. Good times are coming back I guess in your heads😂

[@MrDunkycraig]

@@ajaxjaiswal3442think you dont understand if you think like this. Modern brits understand colonisation was bad, but we should also be proud of how we have helped the planet move into this modern age of comfort and longer life. We also know that history is nuance and not binary good or bad.

[@PaulK-ve1pu]

I visited India recently and met with a Kashmiri man called Pran. I told him that it was a shame about British colonialism and he replied that it was the age of colonialism; better the British than the Dutch, French, Germans or Portuguese. He told me that the countries that were part of the British Empire were mostly now mature democracies, where the rule of law prevails. Compare that with the Spanish and South and Central America. Despot and despot, revolution after revolution. Made me rethink everything.

[@radman8321]

A huge amount of what you were "taught" is nationalist propaganda. Politicians always like to have a "bogey man", that they can blame when things go wrong. The biggest gift the UK gave to India was democracy. Guard it well, because there are those that wish to undermine it.

[@shaunpcoleman]

"We had a country before the British". There was the Mughal Empire which was very cruel. The British defeated it. You're welcome.

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

No thankyou. It's not for your benevolence Tommy. But, till India becomes richer than US, we can't claim anything for ourselves, just hope we can show the world.

[@nightwingjattibanez]

@@shaunpcoleman and now the mughals are taking over your country....ha ha

[@thehighestclips7562]

The Mughals were defeated by many such as Sikhs, Marathis etc which resulted in India not becoming a Muslim Nation. By the time time another murdering, looting empire came along (The British) the Mughals stronghold was small, mainly Delhi and surrounding nearby areas. So the many Indian Sikh Gurus and their Sikh warriors, the various royals and their armies of warriors stopped the Mughal from ruling the entire Land of India. You're welcome for making it easy to take over Delhi from them. British then got friendly with the rest of the localised royals/rulers, then canivingly took control of their everything. So then British, became the next empire stripped everything and everyone naked. Shall we talk about the current state of the British economy. It's not the people coming into UK making it poor, the upper class are robbing the middle and lower class as they are now realising that the trillions of wealth we stole from India is almost all gone because the upper class are pocketing the money and or are taking their wealth out of UK as they don't want to legally be apart of the UK tax system. Not very patriotic. Oh dear, it was a very backward barbaric thing to enter some country and take over, you'll have to do the same if you ever want to come out of austerity. I guess that won't be happening anytime soon. What goes round comes round. Do you know that UK are in such debt that such a big part of your economy is owned by other countries. Reminds me of The East India country or whatever it was called!!!

[@paulhugo2180]

Don't forget tea, the British brought tea from China and planted it in India because the climate would make a better cuppa. And today India are the worlds biggest importers of the worlds best tea's, which must be Good for your economy im sure.

[@darthwiizius]

Britain got black tea from the Assam tribe. They got Opium from them first and tried using that to break the Chinese monopoly on tea (The Opium Wars) then realised that they also had a form of tea, we drink primarily teas that originate from the Assam tribe's method. It's all the same plant, in reality, but the drying method is what changes the colour and flavour. BTW India is currently a net importer of tea, the World's largest net exporter of tea is Kenya where the vast majority of the British Isles gets it's tea from today, and has done for decades.

[@offal]

they actually stole it lol.

[@RowenaCavanagh]

no, thechinese would not give the British tea plants but thesame plant was found growing in the n.e. of India., hence all the tea planttions there.

[@offal]

@@RowenaCavanagh Robert Fortune was a scientist, a botanist and, in some ways, an industrial spy. But he is best known as the man who stole tea from deep within China and took it to India in the mid-1800s, changing history.

[@darthwiizius]

@@RowenaCavanagh Yup, the opium tribe we used to employ to take their opium to China also drank tea. Once we actually realised, the Opium wars were over.

[@jang3412]

About India - good or bad? I'd say ask my husband - he was from India but sadly he died 10 years ago. Yes, I had to persuade him to change his Indian Passport to British because it was easier for travelling but I don't think he ever regretted it. He cheered for India in Cricket, but he cheered for us English in so much else of life. Yes, we traded with India and I reckon I got a really great bargain!

[@twatinahatsmith7428]

We did give them cricket. Surely good value for what we took lol.

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

True😂 good trade

[@shonums]

@jang3412 So I take it your a White Brit NO offense , you seem to be a bit up in age forgive me if your not , here is the reason I said that older people tend to reAD nOW A DAYS KIDS JUST don'T BUT LIKE TO PUT THEIR THOUGHTS OUT THERE WITH OUT ANY REAL EXPERIENCE OR KNOWLEDGE. do you think the Brits weree good people in the Colonize not in England but in the countries they invaded. NO they looted plundered example the Indian jewel that the Queen of England put on her Ceown, then the Indian Emperors Thrown had the Kohinoor Diamond looted and taken to England used by the Monarch of England.

[@twatinahatsmith7428]

@shonums You are correct, I am an oldish white Brit. I do like to read as well. Very insightful of you. No doubt we did great damage to your economy. That can't be disputed. Yes, we took great valuables from there. But let's not pretend that India was a perfectly fair country to its own people. There was slavery, different sects/ castes who were looked down upon, and ruled by the elites. It wasn't a fair system at all, so let's not pretend it was a wonderful place before we took it over. It wasn't. As far as colonisation. Most countries that were colonised have a better standard of living than non colonised countries. For all we took, we also gave them something back, no doubt in my mind about that. But just like India, in the days we took you over. Britain was ruled by the elites. The British working class had no real rights. Look up the Peterloo massacre of 1819. The working class wanted a parlimental representative and a right to vote. At that time, only around 10 to 15% of Englishs were allowed a vote. The working class only got the right in 1918. We didn't gain anything from colonisation in any way. Only the elites gained, much like today, really. You might want to read about the British crusade to end the worldwide practice of slavery, which had been normal for thousands of years. So, in essence, yes, we did some things that are bad, but also did some good as well. Much like the Romans did when they had a big empire, it brought along many things that were life improving to many countries. I feel neither shame nor pride for what happened in the past.

[@jang3412]

@@twatinahatsmith7428 Well, you are right. What puzzles me is that Indians don't seem to be resentful about having been colonised by the Moghuls. Akbar seemed pretty fair, but not so sure about the others! I wonder why they were never regarded as 'colonisers'? I'm pretty sure they were but am happy to be corrected.

[@stevenoliver8570]

India was split into different areas Britain helped unite them. Look at countries influenced by the British and have a democratic. Hong Kong given back to China then the people of Hong Kong marching in the streets with the union flag. Parts of Africa after Britain left war lords took over and murdered millions. Some countries Britain invaded were already ruled by others countries like France. Spain. Germany. And the Dutch countries that at the time Britain was at war with. So after defeating those countries Britain took control of the colonies.

[@nicksykes4575]

The bridge in the photo was built in 1779, was the first iron bridge, and is still standing where it was built, although traffic is no longer allowed to cross it, you can still walk across it.

[@copferthat]

I visited the bridge a couple of years ago and there was a team of American engineers there to look at it. They were thrilled.

[@MichaelLamming]

You have to remember that the British were the most successful civilization in history. Of course they made mistakes, but it's essentially Britain that mostly created the Western civilization we know today. Also, it should be remembered that the British Empire was the most benevolent empire that ever existed. The world would be in a lot worse place if Britain had never existed. Another thing to remember is that in almost every country, history has a lot of anti-British propaganda, mainly based upon origin stories. Them bad us good.

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

Not until 16th century, before that you were burning witches

[@angrybob3594]

I am British, and we did not invent Western civilization. The Greeks did that.

[@MichaelLamming]

You do have a point 😂, but so do I

[@Deano-Dron81]

@@angrybob3594nah! You died out.

[@chrispayne-lloyd6896]

I'm Ex H.M. FORCES. Under QUEEN ELIZABETH II. MY old REGIMENT has the largest Sikh captured battle flag!. After that, the Sikhs joined us. From that point on, the British Army Sikh have proved their honour time and time again. You're absolutely loved and respected by us. Love your posts .

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

Yes they the british served well 🤦

[@chrispayne-lloyd6896]

@@ajaxjaiswal3442 and still do!!!

[@copferthat]

The British built 26,000 miles of railways in India and every single yard of caste iron track and every single train was manufactured in Britain, loaded aboard a ship, transported half way around the world, then carried out across thousands of miles of country and laid, a monumental feat of logistics and engineering. What about hydraulics? Pneumatics? The English language, the unifying language of the world. He's mentioned the big ones but there are a thousand smaller ones.

[@sandemike]

And got rid of Thugee and Sutee.

[@davidpotter3569]

Were you punning with the spelling of cast iron? Caste has a very different meaning.

[@copferthat]

General Napier and his men came across a Sutee ceremony, where for the uninitiated was the practice of throwing a man's wife alive onto his funeral pyre. He told the official he wouldn't allow it and he replied that it was their tradition. Napier replied... In England we have a tradition of hanging the murderers of women, so you go ahead and carry out your tradition and then we'll carry out ours. She didn't burn. As for Thugee, that abhorrent, religious practice of murdering people by strangulation and claimed around 2,500,000 lives in its history. The British launched a campaign against this secretive organisation, infiltrated it, broke it open and hanged many mass murderers and succeeded in destroying the whole murderous organisation

[@nightwingjattibanez]

Britain didn't give India trains so the populus could travel, they put them in so they could rob the nation quicker

[@copferthat]

Whoops

[@neilcarpenter2669]

You both seem like nice people however your education system hasn't served you well and sadly you aren't alone in your ignorance of what Britain gave to every country that was part of the British Empire, without the influence of the British India would be a third world country unable to feed it's citizens, still killing each other because of religious differences, a vastly reduced population because of disease and probably without a functioning democracy, while instead of enjoying watching cricket you might still be burning widows for your daily entertainment. Now i know that you might think I'm being racist however I'm trying to put things in perspective because if there Is one country in the world that you should be thankful for it's Britain. Ps We didn't steal the Kohinoor Diamond either by the way or if any Greeks are reading this the Elgin Marbles, they were both gifts , don't say that we didn't steal stuff just that we didn't steal those items. I don't blame you for not knowing as many people in Western civilization are ignorant of the true picture.

[@gillianmcmullan6023]

The Elgin Marbles were purchased from the Muslims before they were turned into building rubble.

[@MrNifts]

So a a cyclone in October 1942 which destroyed rice crops had nothing to do with the Bengal famine? Sorry but we had a war to try and stop and was on rations as well.

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

Don't read British sources when trying to understand colonialism. I guess if you had read about the academic reading you would have referred diverse sources for better understanding but I guess you don't need to learn other sources to reaffirm your r*cist feelings 😂😂

[@Oxley016]

and the local Indian rice and grain dealers wouldn't release their reserve stocks because they wouldn't get enough profit under war time measures

[@exorruination]

Not to mention trying to hold back the Japanese Army in Myanmar. Pretty sure Indian people would have prefered to be ruled by Britain over the Japanese. They were monsters in World War II.

[@arturo7790]

No good dwelling on past grievances without the British it would have been a damn hard world😌

[@raydawson2767]

As a British citizen,it’s being recently discovered that town planning and a toilet system was first used in a city in India thousands of years ago before the romans,unfortunately it was destroyed by some sort of catastrophic insodent.

[@zigman63]

The way I look at it is, people forget the Romans were here in the UK for a few hundred years but I don't blame Italian people for anything that was done 2000 yrs ago at a time when it was always the powerful took over the weak. Iam not proud to be British, iam actually grateful.

[@coot1925]

Attitudes evolve over time. I was in rock bands in the 80s when it was perfectly acceptable to screw multiple women in one night and do loads of drugs. I now look back at how I behaved and cringe and feel a bit ashamed. This is the same with any invading force such as us Brits, but you have to remember that when a country is invaded by people who are technologically far superior they bring that knowledge with them. Many countries were made up of separate tribes who were constantly at war with each other. Britain was invaded on many occasions and we may not have liked it at the time but the Romans left us with revolutionary technology that we benefit from today. India would be left in the bronze age if the Brits hadn't arrived. We brought hospitals with modern medicines, schools, roads, railways, modern factories where you guys build land rovers and are still making Royal Enfield motorcycles. The most important thing we can do is learn from our mistakes and try not to repeat them. ✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@michaelatkins4501]

Don’t forget England didn’t tax you …. The Indian people didn’t have to pay taxes when we ruled

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

Where ever the British went they build and gave freedoms to all❤❤❤

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

British reacting to Indian channels are hilarious, I guessed that only Indians like to go on foreign youtubers' channels and say proud to be Indians but now seeing same stoopid bunch existing in western countries is reaffirming my beliefs in humanity 😂😂😂😂😂

[@shonums]

What a bunch of CROCK . read the History books go to the local areas and fact check and ask HOW WHY and WHEN you will get the real answer. Question for you Majoriestoker name me one country the Brits went in and did not leave or get booted out . America, Australia, India, just a few the Brits were kickedd out forceed out they didd not leave on their own free will now did they . Educate yourself you would get wiser NOT the other way around. A invader never comes to a country to do good the longer they stay they make infrastructure better for themselves simple .

[@Oxley016]

@@Seevawonderloaf Ah, you say when they left! As in when the British were no longer controlling/guiding the development of those places, it went to shit after they were gone? When it wasn't them running things anymore?

[@strangelee4400]

@@Seevawonderloaf As opposed to before they arrived..?

[@emmaconnolly5738]

​@Seevawonderloaf the key words there being 'when they left...'

[@tobiasmccallum9697]

British. Common. Law...... If you're doing business globally right now, 90% chance you're influenced by this...... because everywhere that uses it succeeds

[@seanmc1351]

I like your thinking, but what nation in history, could, invaded, and colonise, most of the world, and not really be hated, we have people from every part of the world in the UK, they want to come here, i can see why, so we cant be that bad

[@martinhoult]

we built all of your infrastructur including roads cannals waterways agriculture government laws police judges irrigation systems modern farming methods unified the indian continent into one big country from 40 plus independant states etc

[@michaelatkins4501]

My mum and dad had a teas-maid when I was a kid…. They are incredibly loud I remember that much

[@Bosspigeon230]

Not worth the effort & noise were they, soon got shoved into a cupboard in my house!

[@stevensibbet5869]

Weird things that over the years I've learnt the British have invented: roundabouts crisps the police council housing schools school uniforms zebra crossings First street in the world to be lit by electric street lamps The world's first underground railway system

[@nicklomas181]

love that as soon as he saw a mini "Mr Bean!"

[@gavingiant6900]

The alarm clock that makes tea is called a Teasmaid if you want to get one.👍

[@stewedfishproductions9554]

Available from Argos and with Swan (the original makers) as the brand... BUT, the ones sold now are manufactured in China and are NOT the same quality as when made in the UK. Still OK, but try to buy a used / second hand original if possible. Just saying!!! 😊

[@CovBloke1310]

@@stewedfishproductions9554 Mum and Dad had one about 50 years ago. We still occasionally use it now.

[@stewedfishproductions9554]

@@CovBloke1310 That shows 'they don't make them like that anymore...' 😊

[@marybarnes8698]

I might be wrong but I think it was spelt Teasmaid or maybe its just me linking it to a maid like in the old days when the rich had maids etc.

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

My mum and dad had one....the alarm sound is horrific, and has stayed with me for 50 odd years!

[@Valhalla88888]

British Empire 🇬🇧 got you Indians out of surfdom, we educated you, provided infrastructure, put in a real government, put in plumbing, and a good legal system, and we the British gave India everything, same as we did for America, Canada, Australia , New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and now your in the British Commonwealth 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Chris-mf1rm]

Surfdom? We saved them from hanging ten on breakers? I never knew that. On the downside, by saving them from surfdom we stopped India from inventing the Beach Boys.

[@polythenewrappedme6102]

India is rightly proud to have one of the best railway networks in the world.

[@gwilymmorgan5115]

Shame about the trains, then.

[@robbie_]

@@gwilymmorgan5115 Indian trains have been great for memes.

[@johnavery3941]

Let us also remember the Sporting inventions the Brits gave the World, where would India be without Cricket? The British also either invented or codified Association Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Tennis, Table Tennis, Curling, Badminton, Snooker... the list is endless.. the World would not have Sporting Recreation without the British.

[@DanielFerguson-l2u]

The British were no worse, & actually far better than most colonial powers around the world. India was backward by European standards before the British went there, riven with petty states ruled by tyrannical despots & always at war with each other, It was also ruled by the despotic & cruel Mughals etc. Most of the population were little more than slaves, & split into a strict devisive caste system. The British ended practices like Suttee, the burning of widows on their husbands funeral fires. They ended the petty wars, & introduced a British type legal & and administrative system, as well as the advances of modern technology. He missed out George Cayley, who worked out the principles of aerodynamics & flight, 1 hundred years before the Wright brothers made the first powered aircraft. That is because he couldn't find a motor for his gliders in the early 19th century, but he was working towards it. You can't blame all the British for what a few did in the past. All the other people that invaded India took what they could from it, & many people within the sub continent were cruel to each other. It wasn't the British that slaughtered millions at Partition, that was Hindu against Muslim violence, nothing to do with the British. The peoples of India did that themselves, because the different leaders, Jinhar etc, couldn't agree. Also, famines & epidemics were regular events throughout Indian history, which the Indian rulers themselves did little to assuage. At least the British vastly improved life in India, & gifted it Democratic institutions etc.

[@sedekiman824]

Don't foget Thugee.

[@seanmc1351]

portland cement, is the grey bit, you see between bricks, on most british houses, like the glue to keep the bricks together, for the want of a better word

[@jeffappleton926]

Nope. You're talking about mortar - which is often partly made of Portland cement. Portland cement is an ingredient that when mixed with water and an aggregate (usually stones) turns into concrete. Pretty much every bit of modern concrete in buildings, pathways, dams etc is based on Portland cement.

[@seanmc1351]

@@jeffappleton926 yes i know, i was talking in a simple terms, not someone that is maybe in the trade, with the know how, it was a simple example

[@jeffappleton926]

@@seanmc1351 Fair enough - Have a good one!

[@MichaelLamming]

No cement no modern concrete

[@penningtonlfc]

I put to you one way,if anyone stole stuff from indians or any other part of empire,was the rich people that did that,not the poor people of the uk you know the majority of the people.Like they been robbing us,treating us like slaves for 1000's of years,isbard kingdom brunel built over thousand bridges in india,i dont think is was a cut and dried as people said yes money was taken out.but who paid for the bridges,and other stuff to be built, you know new things cost alot to build now well they did then too,any money made by the company owners went to them,not to the poor of the uk.Yes we made mistakes but what nation hasnt made them,but poor people of india or any othe part of empire wasnt stole by the uk poor. we are not all like the people of the uk we dont own milllion of companys,lucky if had shoes on our feet. sorry for proper grammer or spellliing mistakes,look at british history like kids put up chimneys to clean them and down mines they are the real uk people,not the ones who fought most of uk battles! and got nothing much in return.not the ones in bentleys. sorry for proper grammer or spellliing mistakes

[@threestepssideways1202]

How as Indians do you not know that you were not a unified country prior to the arrival of the British ?

[@LonzieSeal-lc4wm]

Tata don’t own Land Rover it’s subsidiary company to Range Rover so no Indians company don’t own Land Rover

[@tonib5899]

New subscriber from England. You guys are hilarious. Keep it up. Tony.

[@MackerelCat]

It’s hard to shake off a lifetime of propaganda, whatever country you come from, whether you believe the British are good or evil.

[@nedeast6845]

Harrisons Chronometer and copper-bottomed hulls, it is how the Brits ruled the world

[@delskioffskinov]

I enjoyed watching your reaction to this video guys! good job!

[@jexxajess6837]

First off, he's an aussie. The brits didn't colonise 90% of the world, we didn't colonise Scandinavia, China, Russia, large parts of South America and big slabs of Africa. The car engine bit is wrong too. Big miss, it was a Brit who invented the laser

[@buckthegoth]

He is taking that info from a book that taking the piss. The book counts every where British soldiers wear, this includes WW1 and WW2, ie when we were fighting the Italians in Libya during WW2 that is counted.

[@Paulo-ov4yo]

I was informed by an well educated Filipino that it was a pity Great Britain gave Manila back to the Spanish in 1764 after deafeating them in 1762 as part of an overall peace treaty in Europe. Otherwise, he said his country would be like Malaysia or Singapore today.

[@fredcollins9953]

Learn some history, the Indian subcontinent was never a country at best it was a collection of waring little principalities, only ever united under the Brits, on independence it broke up into east and west Pakistan and India.

[@BikersDoItSittingDown]

You both seem quite forceful with agreeing that the British were " BRUTAL COLONISTS" If they were so brutal, how did they manage to rule India for about 100 years and then have most of her former colonies join a commonwealth! (rhetorical question)

[@robk5159]

Hate to be pedantic....it was ruled for 200 years!.

[@BikersDoItSittingDown]

@@robk5159 be as pedantic as you wish but you are wrong. India was not colonised until the 1857 mutiny. Before this, a British trading company would influence the politics and wars in India but the British did not rule at this time.

[@robk5159]

I said and meant pedantic......1608 to 1947 you do the math! Elizabeth 1st gave the charter to Clive of India, clearly you are referring to the Raj, however the East India Company were accompanied by several regiments of the British army and Indian army (lead by British officers), you can be as pompous as you like, but British rule is British rule, even though it only came under direct British Parliamentary rule for 89 years.

[@BikersDoItSittingDown]

@@robk5159 your dates are wrong

[@robk5159]

@@BikersDoItSittingDown .....as are your facts!

[@ade3628]

Let's just say "the modern world" was invented by the brits

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

And yes they still come to your shores, see the desperation??

[@davidware9549]

People need to learn to get over things we wasn’t a live when all this bad stuff happened cause look at Germany and the war I don’t see Germany as the bad ones it’s down to the dictator in power not the people when we where also threaten to pay tax’s and women didn’t have rights we need to stop blaming county’s and blame the people in power

[@scottmoquin]

MUSKAN !!!!!!!!!!!!! I like your glasses.

[@pompeytid1970]

Sorry but India as a nation didn't exist until Clive of India created it. Before it was a collection of principalities and kingdoms, not a homogenous nation. Sorry.

[@marklowe1393]

I love your passion for history. Are you both related?

[@mruganknayak3216]

The present British people accepted thier ancestors Brutal acts on slavery and colonialism it's big thing Many don't accepted thier past ancestor atrocities like japan,turkey,or evan French.

[@ExpendableRedshirt]

There is no doubt the British Empire was brutal and avaricious, it robbed whole continents of their wealth, but it was a class thing rather than a National action. It might not come as any kind of consolation but the British people were treated no better than the people of the countries the empire conquered. That is not to make any excuse for the brutal behaviour of British soldiers during colonisation, it's just to say that they themselves had been brutalised too. It was the greed of the British upper classes, the rich and powerful, that drove such robbery. And it's those same rich and powerful classes, of every nationality, who still rob the workers of their wealth across the world today.

[@MichaelLamming]

All taxation in India stayed in India to pay for infrastructure, medical treatments, schools etc. Britain did make profit from India, but it was done through trade, not robbery, for which life in India improved for the majority of your peoples.

[@stephenbaker-lemay479]

No Country is with fault, but plenty with nothing to be proud of, without English Common Law there would be no safe trading, every wealthy Country in the World trades under English Common Law, even China recognised its value when the lease on Hong Kong ended, it’s why there was an explosion in Chinas economy, as for India, you could pick times out that should not have happened but also from what Indians done, 120 women and children were murdered in what is now Kanpur and thrown down a well, the facts about India are very much blurred because Governments do not want to acknowledge the truth, during the rule of India under the Empire there was often no more than 1 in a 1000 British soldiers for every Indian, it’s not really clear how even at its largest under the East India Company 250,000 men could rule over 169 million people unless its was consensual.

[@pgek5vz]

British are Great and Good Empire 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 of Brahmins kshatriya hindu religion. But when British came india they gives dalit to hope live life a equal men British destroy caste system by 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

[@Aloh-od3ef]

It’s ironic that you are taught that the British was bad. But by your own admission you are still benefiting from the British empire! (the bridge you mentioned). Still happy to use the trains to move goods and people around India. That was built and paid for by the British! Indian was not even a country until the British arrived. It was divided into many hundreds of individual tribes and territories. The British united India and left India with the world largest democracy! Antibiotics alone have saved many Indian people. Then were killed under the British empire. The British was so bad, 70 years later. India is are STILL befitting from the British empire!

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

"India was not even a country until British empire?" Where the f*ck is that written?? What the holy Christ f*ck are these tommies are talking about???? Ancient Indian texts talk about Indian geography for thousands of years when Europeans were wearing animal skins and dancing in front of fires.

[@shaaravguha3760]

It was built by the British but paid for by the colonies. I'd like to remind you that before British conquest india made up 30% of the worlds economy and after it made up 2%. I'm not dragging Britain down for this, but their innovations were 100% paid for by the wealth they took from India. (They called india the crown jewel for a reason, because it was literally the crown jewel of the empire and funded the empire for a long time)

[@danielferguson3784]

India was not a country before the British Empire. It was a group of petty states at war with each other & conquered by the Moghuls & others. The British brought law & order, stopped all the little wars, & banned some horrid practices like Suttee, the burning of widows on their husbands funneral pyres, & reduced the unfairness of the caste system & other bad ways. They improved the management of the country, & introduced a Democrat system of Government, & a decent Legal system.

[@Ste-g5n]

That’s why land rovers are shit now always braking down say no more

[@paulwright9749]

There is no way India was a great country before the Brits arrived. I’m afraid guys you walked yourselves right into that trap! I would like to add my own to the list and that’s the postal system. That little penny black transformed world communications.

[@G0ldfingers]

India would not be what it is today without the British, and much of the world. I accept the way it did conquer nations colonisation negative, but remember the start of the video, the British did not want the Romans invading Britain, but the advances made with the incoming knowledge helped it become the nation it became spreading the knowledge and a common language across the world allowed all of us to move forward into the future, and trade allowed many to become richer, i submit therefore the British advanced the world for all. Democracy itself British and where would we be without that, living a Feudal Life warring against one another, a place Russia now wants to take us back to.

[@brianshockledge3241]

When the British left India the continent blew up into civil war with over a million dead and many more millions injured which was a lot worse than anything the British did.

[@prp3231]

We got Pakistan out of the chaos. Jinnah did a huge favor for us Hindus. He took many with him to his homeland. Today, we Hindus can laugh at Pakistan 😂😂😂 . Cheers Jinnah and The British. Western stooges Ne hru the womaniser and Gandi would have wanted a unified India.

[@prp3231]

The problem is, how the British will feel about Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford, Shrewsbury, Luton, Derby, Blackburn, Preston, and many others in 20 years time? Will Britain have a Kashmir like situation? Good luck ! Karma. What goes around comes around.

[@brianshockledge3241]

@@prp3231 It`s already a massive problem the infrastructure can not cope now. It will be a third world shithole before you know it.

[@Posts_Comments]

@@prp3231 You're a truly disgusting human being to believe that people who have nothing to do with what happened in India, should suffer for thier ancestors sins.

[@Grassbax]

We are all the same, no matter what country we come from. Beyond that we are a product of our environment, and the better the environment the better we can contribute to humanity. I also agree that the "drop in the bucket" comment was insensitive and certainly not meant in that way. We should strive to pull up our fellow humans wherever they may be, and never put them down or subjugate them. If your religion or world view results in humans suffering for whatever reason, then you need to change your views.

[@ahmedhasabo4565]

Are people actually defending colonialism in the comments?

[@occamraiser]

Yes India existed before the Raj, but it existed as a group of waring kingdoms - not as a nation with a single language and government. It didn't have the legal system or political structure that it has now. It didn't have the level of regional and world influence that it has now.

[@AutoAlligator]

We simply cannot rely on politicians or leaders of various governments (who have the combined IQ of a crayon). It is scientists who push the world forward and people. The British relied on intellect. (Something we take for granted now). Where is the modern intellect? Well still in Britain... Religion is almost gone from all western counties (outside of the US because they are about 100 years behind the rest rest of the western world) and while we respect some of the advances made by those philosophers and religious thinkers of their day, it bears little relevance to the average man or woman today. If we were in India, still ruled by the various tribal leaders of India, your good lady on the left would not be allowed to speak, nor would she want to because it would bring shame on her family. Progress is often bitter. We should not forget how far we have come.

[@twatinahatsmith7428]

I wish people would understand that during most of the British colonisation, that the lower classes in Britain never benefitted and in some ways as oppressed as people in other countries, that we were colonising. Look at the Peterloo massacre of 1819. Every family member had to work just to try survive in them times, even kids. The elites got all the benefits, not the British people. In fact working class people didn't get the right to vote until 1918. But not everything is bad that Britain did. The crusade against slavery, which was practiced worldwide at that time. Most countries that got colonised tends to have a better standard of living then non-colonised countries. Always talk about what we took, but not what we gave back to countries.

[@rajdeepchakraborty1397]

Too many illiterates here, including the original videomaker and the two reacting to it. Brits didn't invent algebra or boson energy particle or wireless communication technology, these were Indian inventions. Look closely to the list of their inventions, you shall find they were meant to smoothen systematic loot and exploitation of their vast colonies. Then they tapped into the local knowledge of their global empire, and had the luxury to sit at home and focus on research while half the world was prioritizing on surviving, forget doing scientific research. They also appreciated many inventions from their colonies. As for 'no brits, no modern times' is concerned, science and advancement is in human nature and we are very competitive there. If newton wouldn't discover gravity, someone else would. Sometimes it's talent first, sometimes it's luck, and sometimes it's unfair advantage. Most brit innovations can be categorized as the third one. Science never stops. India survived mughals, india survived brits, and that is a bigger achievement as long as humanity is concerned.

[@Roaming_Roma6822]

The one thing I wish the British had done was to give the Romani people back their ancestral lands in India and created a new country for us.

[@christopherjohnson7133]

I'm English, and sure, things didn't go well sometimes, but people in other nations should learn their own histories before attempting to pass judgement. And India wasn't a country beforehand, it was the name of a subcontinent of different factions that did not get along. There was plenty of death and slavery before any white person got there. Truth is all.

[@angrybob3594]

Britain did not tax India. The ruling government was mostly Indian, and the judges in the court system were overwhelmingly Indian too. This is all a matter of India's and Britain's national records. Indian Provinces were administered by Indian civil servants. The murder of Sihks at Amritsar led to the imprisonment of the commander of the British forces that massacred those people. It was a terrible crime and he was quite rightly punished. It was a shameful act. The decision to partition India was forced by Indian politicians. The British did not have enough troops to control the civil disobedience, and in truth to enforce martial law would have likely cost as many lives and caused a similar level of harm. And then, inevitably, partition would have happened nonetheless. I am not advocating colonialism, it is a terrible thing to be ruled by another nation. I am just saying there are often no good choices in some situations.

[@rule34wtf34]

India has shown they aren't better off without Britain apparently

[@paulwilson2651]

At the hight of the British empire a great many Brits were living in abject poverty.

[@fabulousaardvark4776]

Very nice reaction. Brits have done a lot haven't they? I love the surprise when you realise British innovations effectively built the modern world. Then the Japanese miniaturised it and the Americans sold it for billions. Just a couple of additional points to make. The Iron Bridge is in ,appropriately, the town of Ironbridge in Shropshire. It is no longer used for vehicular traffic but is open for pedestrian use. I know, I've crossed it. It was built in 1779. India as you know it did not exist in 1700 (before the significant British and French presence) but was a collection of around 30 individual, largely antagonistic, petty kingdoms after the decline of the Mughal Empire after 1707. It was the British who , having disposed of the French presence, created a unified India. It was the British who outlawed thuggee and dacoitry in the period 1836 -1848. Organised criminal gangs were bad for business and it was always all about the trade. Think like this - in the 1770's Britain could send resources to fight the French/Dutch/traitors in the Thirteen colonies (USA) or to fight the French and local allies in India. The US was an economic backwater whilst India was 20-25% of global GDP. Where would you spend? You are both manifestly Sikh so your wife was safe from the practice of sati , banned in 1829. A cultural idol possibly .Barbaric and inhumane most certainly. I wont even go into slavery.

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

Every ills of Indian society you enumerated existed in earlier British society during its dark ages, it was our dark age, still is but finally i guess we are getting out. But it doesn't absolve your ancest*rs of the crimes in the past.

[@englishbob9492]

Britain was a naval power, we didn’t have huge land armies so worked with local leaders.

[@doubledigital_]

without the british the world would be grim first we ended slavery and gave you modern life thank us later

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

If wasn't for the brits yous wouldn't be living life the way you are today

[@philipcochran1972]

Bad news travels fast and far. Good news crawls.

[@TheCornishCockney]

India is our friend now and thank God for that,but I would suggest that overall,looking at the big picture,where ever we were colonising had benefits they had never had before. I’m always going to be proud to be British.

[@knottyeti]

I find it interesting to imagine a world where Britain had been isolationist but somehow managed to still invent all that it did. No empire for people to be upset with but also how far behind the UK other countries would be technologically. Of course most of the inventions couldn't have happened in that situation. It would be like comparing Tokyo to a village in the Amazon.

[@ukqwerty999]

Britain would have been Wakanda

[@spacefanatic]

Not too bad for such a small island. There are loads of other things that were invented by the British not mentioned in this.

[@dannywalsh5608]

the japanese and the canadians both did studys and found over half off all the inventions and innovations from the invention of the wheel to the computer half of everything would go to britain

[@AdstarAPAD]

India was a collection of different kingdoms ruled by different factions. The closest India came top unity before the British came to India was under the invasion of the islamic Moguls who united most of northern India but could not totally subjugate all of the sub continent.. It was the British who actually united all of modern day India.. And when they left India was again divided and lost unity with Pakistan and Bangladesh..

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

When you don't read don't shit in the comments sections 😂

[@1080lights]

Lol it was literally the British who partitioned India and Pakistan

[@AdstarAPAD]

@@1080lights Yes they did.. They made an attempt to prevent a terrible civil war between muslim Indians and hindu Indians.. But sadly their attempt could not prevent the violence that came about because of the British withdrawal from India..

[@copferthat]

@@1080lights Hindus and Muslims don't need encouragement from anybody to go slaughtering each other

[@mick6721]

Britain took from countries but they also gave a lot to pay for it.

[@JungleTunes94]

Its really hard to rationally view the old world through new eyes. Up till just over 200 years ago you would be hung in the UK for stealing, let that sink in. Life for most was brutal and hard and most people were poor. The same goes for the rest of the west. The idea of going to another country to trade often by force was fairly normalcbut I know bad stuff happened and im not about to try and excuse that. Thank god there was major progress as the whole world got many times better in a relatively short time. Surprised he didnt mention cricket, I guess its not technological but imagine India without cricket. I'd miss it but you guys are crazy for it on another level.

[@christopherwatts1833]

Education is a wonderful thing.

[@blackthai5023]

Unfortunately we gave you bureaucracy too

[@Tony2438]

Taken what money bull; shit

[@flash301]

Let's not forget cricket and the beatles

[@alfredthegreat9543]

I think that with history and assessing "good" or "bad" you cannot use the morals of today to judge- if you do so then basically every ruler, leader, or peoples, would be classed as "evil" by todays standards. You have to base your assessment on the world at the time and compare thus so. By doing so you get a true reality. One big thing he missed out on that had a great impact on the world was that the British Empire was the 1st Empire in history to outlaw slavery. Worth watching this video, or maybe reacting to it (though many have done before) kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6nVfGWbZbmEra8si=bnjye41rE3XEv361

[@leehallam9365]

Taxes from colonies did not go back to Britain to fund science and technology. Or indeed to fund anything in the UK done by the government. Of course there was looting of vsluables, but it wasn't economically important. There were basically five functions for colonies in the Empire. First prestige, this applied to all, the bigger it was the more power it had. Second strategic, this is where a colonies position was of military value, like Gibraltar. If a colony only had these two qualities, and many did, then they actually cost the British tax payer money to run them, most African colonies were loss making. The third was for settlement, obviously Australia etc. Fourth plantations, large scale commercial production of crops. No Brits no rubber plantations they developed those, and no Brits no tea grown in India, they stole seeds from China and developed them for Indian conditions. Finally trade, that was really what the Empire was for, a market for British goods, it was that part of it which contributed to the industrial revolution. So a bit more than Railways, imagine India with no tea and no cricket. Modern sport was essentially a British invension.

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

So what British invented rover

[@darrengeoghegan1895]

Go educate yourselfs before ffs

[@perryedwards4746]

you wasn't a country, you were lots of different country's!!

[@copferthat]

They were a set of warring principalities, unified under the crown

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

Nope false information sir, there is no evidence for British being deliberate about Indian unity, they broken the country that's what I know. Or otherwise you wouldn't have gotten the slur "p*ki". 😂

[@perryedwards4746]

@@copferthat same thing