The Anarchy: The relentless rise of the East India Company, with author William Dalrymple

[@mdog111]

I've just finished reading 'The Anarchy' and have got to say that if you enjoyed this talk and want to know more, the book is well worth acquiring for a deep dive on the subject. It's a very accessible read and I learned a lot about how a private corporation (and not the British state as I'd previously assumed) destabilised and eventually conquered one of the most propserous and populous regions of the world. A really interesting book!

[@caveman1334]

It didn't end well for the state......😊

[@Xsiondu]

The talk begins at 4:00

[@luthorcorp0]

Your comment was a god send.

[@someoneelse293]

My friend recently applied for, and received the trade mark in Australia for "the East India company" .... He's nuts

[@HelenKempster]

What a fantastic talk. It makes a whole lot of things so much clearer. Thank you , I will have to buy the book.

[@alexandrahanson-harding4666]

Thank you so much for this interesting and complex lecture.

[@Jordanehart]

Thank you very much.

[@captainscarlett1]

I've read the book. It's as much about the vicious and brutal local politics as it is about the ruthless and acquisitive 'Company'. The Indians did worse to other Indians than the British ever did, not that they objected to the way things were done. They benefited from it.

[@chuck6033]

Ain’t that the English way. Stand back but reap all the benefits.

[@h4ppyn0m4d]

wow. I cant even fathom what brings a person to continue trying(but failing) to defend things like this. regardless of the morality, It’s a weak and completely inaccurate argument.

[@fyrdman2185]

@@h4ppyn0m4d How is it inaccurate, every people in the world no matter what race they are or where they're from have always invaded and conquered other people or nations for land and resources, it is no different here. Don't be mad that the English were the best at it.

[@vinm300]

"Anarchy" is what existed in India before the British laid the foundations of a united nation-state Most members of the Indian Congress were also Freemasons Freemasonry came to India with the British army : its values were philanthropy, democracy and liberty They also contributed to creating the democratic India we see today

[@kangleipak_pride]

*BAHUJANRAJ IS INEVITABLE* *MOOLNIVASIS WILL RULE* *Savarna are just 12-13%* The Blood of innocent bahujan tortured by the so called sons of Manu are reverberating in the nature, its only time for mother nature to take revenge against oppressors. Time is witness against your crookedness of buying out media and spreading propaganda against the Bahujan. India will have many spartacus rising against the evil enslavers who used racist ideology disguised as a religion narrating fables in your immigrant Indo european toungue You appropriated the wealth of native animistic and folk faith into a monolith in which you wanted to make dictums using the same old enslaving literature your crooked forefathers created. *YOU HAVE DESTROYED INDIGENOUS FAITHS AND WOULDN'T ALLOW RELIGION LIKE SIRNAISM TO HAVE INDIPENDANT STATUS IN INDIA* *ALL NATIVE RELIGIONS ARE FORCED UNDER HI*** UMBRELLA TO ERASE HISTORY AND REPLACE WITH SANS***T LITERATURE*

[@tonyholmes962]

5 in a row. Championi magnificienti getting rounder with each award. Respect to the bearded Oracle of Queensferry.

[@caveman1334]

Great talk Thank you Getting the book

[@philipwipernickle4780]

I like that this guy is rubbing empire and empire simps' noses in the harm they caused as they always make excuses for themselves. They are just sooo "smart" haven't you heard!

[@AllyGray]

Made possible by Public-Private Partnership

[@abhimanyusingh1309]

But his work Anarchy is well received and appreciated

[@janakjodhan3322]

To what extent did Clive's fleet of pirate ships involved in plundering Asian spices bound for Europe?

[@ayklization]

Outstanding narration ❤❤

[@SourishDas]

Disagree with William Dalrymple with the statement that Indians are not aware of Jagat Seth and Mir Zafar's deeds... I grew up in Kolkata and we were taught in our school about how Jagat Seth and Mir Zafar conspired and brought British to India. I agree outside Bengal - not many Indian knows about it - that because of shoddy history lessons in Indian schools (other than Bengal ;)

[@jacquilayton2557]

At the end of the day the rich and powerful do awful things to ordinary people. Nothing ever changes in the world.

[@communication001]

I hear bengal has a good reputation within India for education and academia.

[@ParikshitBhujbal]

What deeds? Can you tell more?

[@Q_QQ_Q]

It's called bhadralok and braghmins

[@arindamchatterjee0110]

Everyone in India knows about Mir Jafar

[@sunoveristambul]

Excellent

[@salisburyroad9516]

I found the book 1491 interesting as well perhaps you could have a lecture about this

[@Historian212]

He’s a great author to have do a visiting scholar week or two. We had him in our department when I was in grad school. Very personable, good lecturer (keeps it moving as this one was) and does a good slide presentation, too. Highly recommend.

[@ParikshitBhujbal]

Can the volume be any lower? cant afford a good mic?

[@LouAlvis]

Iike Mr Dalrymple? check out his Podcasr "empire" with Anita Annand

[@d.c.8828]

Fantastic presentation!

[@yogi2436]

around 1'07 is fantastic

[@shrimatbohra]

11:08 what is the name of this tower palace

[@andrewdarowski1975]

Powys castle

[@mohapaop]

Absoutely poorest quality of closed captions in this Video. Why does GOOGLE provide such LOW QUALITY captioning for such an imporatnt work of history. WHY?

[@charlesjtwhite]

It's auto-generated - that means the quality of the captions is dependent on the quality of the video's audio.

[@mavisemberson8737]

The audio is at fault, the captions are 'listened' to by a bot which writes what it 'hears' Often the microphone is at fault in so many videos

[@DJWESG1]

Study sociology if you want to take this seriously, youtube can only take you so far.

[@bowlingvanjapan4099]

It was a government created and sanctioned company. It wasn’t a private company it was chartered and funded by the monarchy. It was mercantilism which is a primitive form of fascism. Where the government regulates business and the owners of the business get the profits.

[@pinkoslayer]

Still basically the same but now many thousands of corporations functioning in much the same way. Top shareholding companies of most top corporations globally have hidden clients consisting of family wealth and sovereign wealth. They basically scaled up the old model.

[@MorphingReality]

interesting book, frivolous title

[@Dishfire101]

Most of the directors of the East India Company were not English they were Scots, ie the Merchant Class as educated managers.

[@rod9829]

Nuanced! Watch it, ignore other commentors…

[@swadeepkumar3579]

Can someone tell me the writers/ the works he mentions at 1:06:45 ?

[@burnere633]

@@Ghurshah Why make up names if you didn't know? 1. Upinder Singh 2. Nayanjot Lahiri 4. Ira Mukhoty

[@Ghurshah]

@@burnere633 I copied the text generated by the KZbin's Auto-Transcript CC, in an attempt to help. Thank you for giving the correct names. I will delete my earlier comment. You can remove my name from your comment.

[@pinkoslayer]

@@Ghurshahadmirable response

[@JJ-fr2ki]

Start 15 min in. Wonderful. With respect to the humanities in India, underinvestment in philosophy has just ceded the field to religious leaders, often extremist nationalists, and hurt the training of Indian scientists and engineers (both brilliant with crazy high IQs) but no sense of the history and philosophy of science and argument. I was a lab partner in grad school once with the 50th best engineering exam scorer. He was useless in a computational neuroscience lab. Could not figure out purpose of experiments, week after week. He never had a chance to think about what he learned I felt. His math skills were insanely good, but on Mathematica, I did not need him. You cannot run a society with engineers alone until the engineering curriculum shifts closer to science and philosophy and away from beating questions and creativity out of young students.

[@colinrogers7554]

Get your facts right . Powis Castle is just outside Welshpool , Montgomeryshire , which has never been in England . Powis Castle was built by the Princes of Powys and the gardens were created by the Herbert family long before Edward Clive married into the Herbert family and became the 1st. Earl of Powis ( 3rd. Creation ) . Also , the Long Gallery is situated inside the main building , the Clive Museum is housed inside part of the Ballroom Range , which was built in the 1700's for the coming-of-age of George , 2nd. Earl of Powis ( 2nd. Creation ) . His sister married Edward Clive , Lord Clive's son .

[@kellyhawkes3191]

You tell um Col ! 😁

[@communication001]

I noticed that sense in which it seemed like he was saying it was in England but obviously he knows powys is in Wales. I think he was saying it looks like it's quintessentially English though it isn't.

[@SuperMookles]

He's referring to the architectural style. Don't be so preposterous.

[@colinrogers7554]

YAWWWWWNNNNNNNNN !

[@pinkoslayer]

He identified it as Welsh and then proceeded to describe the English architectural characteristics of the building.

[@RaitaNag]

EIC model was repeated by Chruchil who prevented grains from Australia meant for India to be diverted. It is in the blood such cruelty

[@baztel5561]

Totally different from an Indian perspective 🙈

[@traceyolsen308]

Originally, didn't Parliament ban any missionaries coming into India? Also, I don't think any British troops ever vandalised any Hindu Temples...By that time, educated Europeans were completely in love with Pagan Classical culture, ..and doesn't Plato write somewhere that anyone damaging a shine to the Gods will spend forever in Tartarus? Perhaps the various Hindu groups thought they had more in common with these Europeans than Muslims...+ equally as many people died in sectarian religious wars in Europe (?) so unfortunately they were just behaving as ruthlessly abroad as they were to each other....the famine made the administrators look completely incompetent, so that wasn't intentional..and the East India Company was taken over., mainly(?) because of this....about the cartridges,I think any Brahmin would know cows were the sacrificial animal of choice in the Vedic Period, the religion's obviously changed a lot , (I'm vegan, so am not advocating a return to that), ...+During the Raj wasn't Hinduism 44% of the religious community , the largest group. And it's the same in the Commonwealth?..so perhaps the Christians were feeling a bit threatened by becoming a minority group, but hopefully nobody's bothered about that anymore. It was a very interesting talk, thank you. I definitely want to buy the book.

[@carolined5923]

Jesus..never knew it was all so barbaric.. Benalis starving reminds me of the Irish famine.. the deeply offensive thing of using pork and cow fat and indirectly forcing coversion to christian faith.. then the killing of all males over 18 yrs. Looting the country what else.. inhumane acts were a thing in those days but still shocking. Wow I never knew all this. Great informative video.

[@carolined5923]

I wonder how much of this looted wealth is seen in Britain today, passed down through generations especially in land ownership bought back then from the gains of India and other countries or has the wealth disdolved over time

[@antonimalachowski5262]

Sounds like a well researched book, but i would question the veracity of company records. I'm sure it wasn't the Americans who invented shady bookkeeping.. These records probably cast the company in a very good light.

[@Icetubexd]

This is an acomplished professional historian. He spent about 8 years of his live almost exclusively learning how to critically analyze unreliable primary sources, even more time if he went into the classics at some point. My point being that he has accounted for that, cross referenced a ton and discarded information that couldn't be properly verified. I can GURANTEE you that, it's most of his job.

[@antonimalachowski5262]

@@Icetubexd Okay, I see he is in fact quite a distinguished historian. I thought he may just be a Tucker Carlson of the East India Company xD

[@pinkoslayer]

Americans didn’t invent shady bookkeeping. You’re correct. We have a similar problem here. The British however have had an obsession with record keeping and documentation. It’s actually been one of their weapons in my opinion. They bury people with obsessive rules, record keeping, documents, procedures. Maybe not common British people but British empire administrators and corporations.

[@szeevster5767]

The idea that anything said here is not known is false. I’m an Israeli and have long been familiar with almost all of the information presented here. I did enjoy the lecture, though.

[@eudyptes5046]

Are you also well informed about the history of your own country and your own massacres?

[@szeevster5767]

@@eudyptes5046 - I am prepared to admit to the numerous mistakes and yes, atrocities committed by Israelis in the 76 years of our most recent existence as a sovereign country. It saddens me that we aren’t better. But we are still far more tolerant and just than any other country.

[@MouldyCheesePie]

It's not taught widely in Europe, schools don't teach it, we all focus on WW2, Romans, etc. Then those that get interested in politics/history usually just surmise the whole event as "Britain bad" without knowing any details.

[@communication001]

I'm starting to develop two opposing ideas in my mind. The Britain bad idea and the Britain was just a force of expansion and capitalist ideas going global idea.

[@pinkoslayer]

If it was unknown he wouldn’t have been able to research the topic. He was stating that amongst people of some nations and specifically India it’s less thoroughly understood because of lack of interest generally compared to mathematics and science. So, many people have a limited vague knowledge of their history. This is similar in America. Common knowledge of our history is like a cliff notes romanticized version. Many people find history boring unfortunately.

[@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS]

It could have been so different if it were not for traitors bought off. The Khalsa had the EIC army at it's mercy. It could have been wiped out as an effective fighting force. How history would have changed.

[@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb]

Good excuses. You lost all. Wars

[@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS]

@@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb I have lost no wars

[@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb]

@@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS then how did EIC rule your @$$?

[@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS]

@@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb They didn't..the ceased to exist long before I was born.

[@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb]

@@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS EIC ruled you and they f###d your women's @$$ too

[@WagesOfDestruction]

I am sure that colonial rule by the East India Company was better than others, like the Dutch in Indonesia, the French colonies in Indochina, the Spanish colonies in the Philippines and the Portuguese colonies in Africa.

[@87rish]

Better? By what metric?

[@WagesOfDestruction]

@@87rish I am sure by almost, if not all, metrics we use to measure, I would say they had more rights, more opportunity, were richer, etc

[@vectravi2008]

Past colonialism must have hit a nerve with you for you to come out with a comment like that

[@WagesOfDestruction]

@@vectravi2008 in what way? I have no idea what you mean.

[@cortomaltese5038]

@@vectravi2008 What colonialism look at Ottoman empire what they did to Balkans or Russians in Siberia or Barbary slave trade. In Africa, tribes were ensalving other tribe members. THIS WAS WAY OF DOING THINGS BACK THEN.

[@aal-e-ahmadhussain3123]

I reckon most nation states don’t give a transparent and honest education of their history to their home populations, especially colonialist states.

[@Thomas...191]

I think that depends on how autocratic thier current government is and other cultural differences. Check out the difference between how Germany teaches ww2 and Japan.. the Japanese don't learn about thier own atrocities while the Germans do to a near exhaustion.

[@salisburyroad9516]

Thanks Very interesting about the East India company so thinking about America the UK lost its power in the colonies dew to the Greedy East India company not wonting to pay Taxes to the colony's

[@arydant]

Poor audio. Wish I could hear this better.

[@SuperMookles]

Perhaps you have an undiagnosed hearing impediment? Or a cheap device.

[@suburbanyobbo9412]

I thought the talk was generally very good and useful. However I feel that Dalrymple's comment to a question, in which he describes the grandparents of British people as having been involved in atrocities, is plainly incorrect and unnecessary. I expect this was simply said for effect and not meant to be taken literally, but given how well Dalrymple identifies precisely who is involved in the Easy Indian Trading Company, and how Darlymple is clearly concerned with how history is understood and the subsequent present day political implications, this comment detracts, is disappointing, clumsy, and vilifying.

[@RaitaNag]

Why feeling guilty? So you should when you have Indian loot in museums

[@suburbanyobbo9412]

@@RaitaNag The talk given by Dalrymple in this video and his book The Anarchy, which he references, both clearly explain the huge extent to which Indians were involved in the East India Company. Be it, working as soldiers for the EIC, administering the EIC and financing the EIC. What is more, is that Dalrymple alludes to attempts by Indian nationalists to reimagine the role of the EIC as simply "The British", so as to fit an anti-British narrative. I'm sorry, but your anti-British nonsense simply isn't supported by the history.

[@Mogwai88]

@@RaitaNag yeah, it'd be rotting on the ground if left in india

[@Philip-ze7uh]

Today they call themselves the committee of 300 and the big names Klaus, Billy, etc are mere minions .. there is a reason they do the hidden hand 😮

[@PatrickMcGerr]

You don't get to co-opt this talk for your hatred and paranoia. Stop it.

[@pinkoslayer]

True. The empire still exists but mutated itself.

[@kangleipak_pride]

*Capitalism at its finest* *Looting a country where own country's laws are not there as barriers* *India is a now a proponent of monopolist crony capitalism and also a country that never abolished feudalism by land reforms where uppercaste elite runs the country* *H***uism itself is rooted in Feudalism and capitalism of caste superiority whith which 12-13% of upper echelon oppressed/occupied/tortured non Aryan Indigenous Indians* *Even today the folk and indigenous faiths like SIRNAISM are being trampled down and Hin** identity with san**krit literature written to establish Aryan caste superiority is forced on Indias indegenious people who are majority*

[@sichere]

Well said

[@bowlingvanjapan4099]

That’s not capitalism. You want atrocities look at Mao, Stalin, and Lenin. Only count those who starved from 1920 to 1965. Yet not a capitalist to be found there.

[@DrBhagirathSN]

Unnecessary Modi bashing marred an otherwise superb rendition. Well done anyway. Don’t let these biases debase you, my dear sir.

[@thewhatorwhy]

Hindu colonialists who justify the ongoing attacks on Muslims across India and Christians in Manipur, Odisha and elsewhere are nearly as bad as the racist British. India has to be and will be free of both, thugee.

[@peterreston6478]

Fearsome lecture. Shameful history of a nasty episode of capitalism. The Chinese still remember the opium thing.

[@mavisemberson8737]

Traders have been the same throughout history and probably through out prehistory too . Look furthr back before you criticise rhe East India Company...

[@arndbrack2339]

@@mavisemberson8737 great piece of whataboutism. This video is about the EIC so we critizise its atrocities

[@bowlingvanjapan4099]

Oh yeah because socialists and governments have never killed anyone. The east India company was a government chartered monopoly from the beginning. It was an arm of the crown for its entire existence.

[@Mogwai88]

@@arndbrack2339 what is criticism without comparison, and context? The context is that it's been done everywhere, by everyone. So your condemnation of only these instances seems unnecessarily heavy-handed.

[@erictarkowski5141]

Don't suppose anyone else is here cause of Shut up, Sit Downs review of the board game "John Company"?

[@benoitdelcorps1019]

Not from the susd review but straight from John Company 2ed rulebook 😅

[@abhimanyusingh1309]

It would do him better if he continues to write travel book and not history books on India with biased lens

[@PeepingTom-xy9di]

East India Company is a finished chapter. Talk about Adani Group of companies.

[@alexkalish8288]

I love Dalrymples books . There is a huge difference between the east India company and modern US magafirms. The modern companies make goods to sell and develop technologies. The EIC was a criminal trading monopoly and drug cartel.

[@d.c.8828]

Well now we just call government-subsidized drug cartels "the pharmaceutical industry"....

[@htastemaster7188]

The gallery has more Mughal treasure than anywhere else ! How shameful for Pakistanis.

[@Noland55]

So, you don't like capitalism or corporations. Big surprise. Your book is unbalanced & terribly boring. Ah, the wonderful, peaceful India of authoritarian aristocrats & their massive peaceful armies who crush the peasants to create the beautiful art & buildings.

[@gagamba9198]

_'Unregulated corporations'_ The moment he said that I knew I was in for some top-tier dipshittery. He didn't disappoint. Academics ought to choose and use their words precisely. Mr Dalrymple prefers to over-egg. All. that does is undermine his credibility.

[@borisnegrarosa9113]

I don't see the problem. Explain.

[@barneylinux]

@@borisnegrarosa9113he can’t

[@suburbanyobbo9412]

@@FBDAGM2023 Who is arguing "But we civilized them, gave them railways" I don't see anyone voicing this sentiment, but I see plenty of people bemoaning this sentiment. Also, I think the measure of global GDP and India's share of it, is not very useful. Not least because of the development of huge new economies around the world, many parts of the world that were almost isolated from global trade became integrated into global trade due to new maritime trade routes. Also, India was involved in trade exploitation through the silk road for many centuries and perhaps India's high share of global GDP was unjust and unsustainable.

[@abhimanyusingh1309]

It's obvious from Mr darymple view that he is hurt by the fact that his books are not selling as much as it used to earlier because in india people are fed up of lies served by his fest promoted pseudo historians..

[@divyamsingh9416]

this person seems to have researched very well but he is also talking a lot of bullshit about contemporary the Hindutva people may not be very articulate right now but given time i am sure left loonies won't be able to counter them on facts regarding Indian history, the only people manipulating it are the marxist historians. william seems to be a fact based person, but these marxist historians and professors will lie through their teeth even after knowing all the facts. Archeologists are always decades ahead in their pursuit of historical event as compared to historians. Maybe taj mahal claim is far fetched but i have been to qutub minar and gyanwapi, the historical injustice is as clear as day. the average indian does not know the real history and the blame is on the socialist governments of the past and marxist historians. every person who reads the real past of India comes to the conclusion that we have suffered 1000 years or even more of humiliation and now we must write our own history based on facts. This is why we are seeing young Indian writing excellent well researched books on medieval and british India.

[@redbluebae4397]

Very interesting comment ty

[@subcitizen2012]

History gets outdated all the time. Nothing really unusual about that. For example, the Soviet union collapsed in 1989, yet you're griping about Marxist historians. The overwhelming odds are that you, like most people, don't know much of anything, so shut your ideologically brainwashed yap.

[@riteshsinghchoudhary115]

It is a well known fact and Marxist historians have tried to hide nothing. It is just that they thought there is much harm than good in ruffling up the communal excesses of the past. Hence they stressed more on the stories of communal harmony.

[@kangleipak_pride]

*BAHUJANRAJ IS INEVITABLE* *MOOLNIVASIS WILL RULE* *Savarna are just 12-13%* The Blood of innocent bahujan tortured by the so called sons of Manu are reverberating in the nature, its only time for mother nature to take revenge against oppressors. Time is witness against your crookedness of buying out media and spreading propaganda against the Bahujan. India will have many spartacus rising against the evil enslavers who used racist ideology disguised as a religion narrating fables in your immigrant Indo european toungue You appropriated the wealth of native animistic and folk faith into a monolith in which you wanted to make dictums using the same old enslaving literature your crooked forefathers created. *YOU HAVE DESTROYED INDIGENOUS FAITHS AND WOULDN'T ALLOW RELIGION LIKE SIRNAISM TO HAVE INDIPENDANT STATUS IN INDIA* *ALL NATIVE RELIGIONS ARE FORCED UNDER HI*** UMBRELLA TO ERASE HISTORY AND REPLACE WITH SANS***T LITERATURE*

[@rickicoughlan]

Hindutva are fascists and so are their cheer squad.

[@Pfsif]

I left at the partisan politics.

[@vinm300]

"Anarchy" is what existed in India before the British laid the foundations of a united nation-state Most members of the Indian Congress were also Freemasons Freemasonry came to India with the British army : its values were philanthropy, democracy and liberty They also contributed to creating the democratic India we see today

[@SK-kh2rs]

If a company takes over your country you should have a word with yourself 😂

[@Great.Milenko]

if the company outmatches you with weaponry, ships, wealth, and training, its hardly like they could do something about it.

[@CB-dl1vg]

😂😂 Facts

[@MadnSad]

As a lover of India I agree that Indians need to introspect rather than argue with each other.

[@Prosadko22]

What country are you from?

[@goodluck5642]

Just learning about power? What a weird comment

[@mz-dz2yn]

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[@fyrdman2185]

Goddamn! The English were awesome back in the day. Unfortunate how gay they are today.

[@jacquilayton2557]

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

[@skymanifest8339]

I'm English, and this made me LOL.

[@therobertspot4840]

Awesome???

[@timbates2052]

Um, uh, um, stutter, uhhh, ummm, ya know uhh like uhhh, stutter stutter, ummm umm uhhh ahhh umm Sounds like Morse Code. Does he have a Speech Defect? Obviously, brilliant mind who never learned a thing about public speaking or debate. What is it about staccato speech patterns of highly educated folks that makes them think they sound smarter? Obama was the king of this verbal slaughter. The English are notorious for "pseudo-intellectual stuttering" Impossible to listen to, let alone learn from. For shame, because the subject matter is fascinating. Advice . . . Slow your tongue so your mind can get ahead of the game

[@MadnSad]

I agree. The art of speaking has taken the backseat. This lecture was important for me due to my interest in that period. Listening to this man was painful. So I tried to read the transcript. It truly was a morse code transmitted through a scrambler.

[@sodbury6426]

OK expert on speaking; why weren't you up there giving the talk with your years of knowledge on the subject? Could you do better? If so then prove it to us with your own channel.

[@MadnSad]

@@sodbury6426 Everyone who listen cannot post. If those who listen can’t suggest how can those who post improve content and quality? Speaking for myself if ever I’m good enough to post I will try to improve my speaking ability before I venture.

[@subcitizen2012]

You haven't taken professional hearing lessons? What are they raising you kids on these days? Ai?

[@bowlingvanjapan4099]

This guy probably blames the holodomor on private corporations.

[@RadwynAlthor]

Does he bitch about colonialism or is it worth listening too?

[@neilritson7445]

yes and no!

[@suburbanyobbo9412]

Broadly it is worth listening to, he is critical of colonialism but he doesn't try to build a nonsense anti-European/anti-western/anti-British sentiment, as some nefarious 'historians' do... *cough* Sashi Tharoor.

[@RaitaNag]

Oh bitter truth? Can't digest the evil done?

[@cherylnagy126]

William Dalrymple is an unfortunate public speaker

[@andrewbogle3350]

WTF? He’s incredibly articulate and speaks without notes. How many people could speak as fluently with such an amazing retention of names, dates, places and events?

[@cherylnagy126]

@@andrewbogle3350 F-F-F to you too

[@cherylnagy126]

@@andrewbogle3350 your standards are low, expand your experiences

[@andrewbogle3350]

@@cherylnagy126 Maybe because he hasn’t been infected by the viral ‘like’ meme and doesn’t use that word repeatedly in every sentence you can’t understand what he’s saying.

[@cherylnagy126]

@@andrewbogle3350 I in no way indicated that I found him inscrutable, you are quite presumptuous. I again enjoin you to expand your horizons

[@chrisbuffum4835]

Great Britain needs to give back all the cultural treasure they stole!! Imagine if they had say..the queens jewels and kept them? You’d have a cow

[@skymanifest8339]

Other nations should defend their lands and "cultural treasures" better.

[@dan8910100]

or stolen cultural achievements like trains or electricity. knowledge is a lot more valuable then shiny rocks.

[@iitnakanpur..]

@@dan8910100 Many countries have build railways etc and they have not been colonized watch shashi tharoor response at oxford university

[@Horwitz86]

Romanov the Windsors

[@Aekeofficial]

Good You shouldnt hope RSS or BJP will go down because for the first time the narrative of India is actually being written the right way. The illiteracy in the crowd at this event is mind-boggling. Qutab minar clearly has ancient Jain temple all around its compound. But yet its hard for you rigid ignorants to accept it. Because thats what you said about the Ram Temple until the ASI dig it up and slapped the remains of the true history on your faces.

[@rameshjorhat4037]

Very correct. They don't have iota of knowledge regarding indias past achievements.

[@rameshjorhat4037]

This gentleman it seems completely barin washed by people like Sam Pitroda and other flatterer of a family.

[@riteshsinghchoudhary115]

@@rameshjorhat4037like what?

[@kangleipak_pride]

*BAHUJANRAJ IS INEVITABLE* *MOOLNIVASIS WILL RULE* *Savarna are just 12-13%* The Blood of innocent bahujan tortured by the so called sons of Manu are reverberating in the nature, its only time for mother nature to take revenge against oppressors. Time is witness against your crookedness of buying out media and spreading propaganda against the Bahujan. India will have many spartacus rising against the evil enslavers who used racist ideology disguised as a religion narrating fables in your immigrant Indo european toungue You appropriated the wealth of native animistic and folk faith into a monolith in which you wanted to make dictums using the same old enslaving literature your crooked forefathers created. *YOU HAVE DESTROYED INDIGENOUS FAITHS AND WOULDN'T ALLOW RELIGION LIKE SIRNAISM TO HAVE INDIPENDANT STATUS IN INDIA* *ALL NATIVE RELIGIONS ARE FORCED UNDER HI*** UMBRELLA TO ERASE HISTORY AND REPLACE WITH SANS***T LITERATURE*

[@Aekeofficial]

More than East India Company, the organisers and the author chose to hate Modi Government in the most Subtle of the ways which clearly shows the british colonial hangover these people still live with (Indians in this video included). The truth still unaddressed about India being a Hindu majority country since ages has its own rights to thrash all colonisers british and mughals included. i would totally suggest these British schools to shut down their courses on Indian culture, history etc. No matter how hard you research your perspective is always flawed. Poor lecture.

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

More they hate Modi, Modi will be more popular in India.

[@subcitizen2012]

Reinterpreting European style nationalism, to revive a past centuries removed, to impose it on other countries, cultures and the independence of academia means you have a chip on your shoulder. You've internalized the damage done by the colonialism and the aftermath of your modern forged national independence, and now that damage is all you have to offer in return. Learn from history, you won't get anywhere trying to be superior or erasing yet another history to replace it with your own.

[@kangleipak_pride]

*BAHUJANRAJ IS INEVITABLE* *MOOLNIVASIS WILL RULE* *Savarna are just 12-13%* The Blood of innocent bahujan tortured by the so called sons of Manu are reverberating in the nature, its only time for mother nature to take revenge against oppressors. Time is witness against your crookedness of buying out media and spreading propaganda against the Bahujan. India will have many spartacus rising against the evil enslavers who used racist ideology disguised as a religion narrating fables in your immigrant Indo european toungue You appropriated the wealth of native animistic and folk faith into a monolith in which you wanted to make dictums using the same old enslaving literature your crooked forefathers created. *YOU HAVE DESTROYED INDIGENOUS FAITHS AND WOULDN'T ALLOW RELIGION LIKE SIRNAISM TO HAVE INDIPENDANT STATUS IN INDIA* *ALL NATIVE RELIGIONS ARE FORCED UNDER HI*** UMBRELLA TO ERASE HISTORY AND REPLACE WITH SANS***T LITERATURE*

[@ayushdhingra855]

It look more like propoganda