The Hindu Lit for Life 2017 - An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

[@426377]

I found this discussion by Shashi Tharoor very informative.Thanks for a history book like this. In the UK we had no such history lesson.

[@tonyelijah1753]

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[@shubhu5751]

"you only need to find time if you have lost it." -Shashi Tharoor

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[@Lk-ti6sq]

bravo! tharoor sir

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[@streb6]

wonderful interviewer , Respect to the lady

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[@kanakarameswarakumaranshan715]

Very engaging and informative talk by one of the most eloquent Indian exponent of English

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[@hardayaldawra1458]

Most wonderful writer. I have read most of his books. Fantastic knowledge.

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[@writebetterenglish2325]

Great.

[@vipulgautam8400]

simply ... the best as usual Dr.tharoor

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[@saradabalaji2918]

Wonderful indeed!Tharoor's observations are largely insightful. I may not completely agree on some points. Prof. Gauri is a great scholar par excellence, combined with simplicity. Met her in a conference at Goa. Thanks HINDU! Great talk!

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[@jvjudd]

ordered the book today,cannot wait to read it.

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[@ashokddani]

Very knowledgeable and indepth erudute discussion by both 🎉

[@akmalahmed9]

Who's here for Prof Gauri's questions and learned insights.

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[@Reet_triple_charm]

baaprein, questions had more thought and explanations going into it. I could have a nap during the questions.

[@beverlyburton9292]

Get rid of this video.

[@Reet_triple_charm]

:O, at first place why so ? and next how could anyone but the owner do so, which is certainly not me.

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[@inamco]

Colonial powers never left India they lives among you.

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[@yousid90]

The guy with the question about the "AMOROUS ADVENTURES" sounded like he was in his death bed and this was his final question! lol an hour about bristish Raj and thats the only thing he wants to know!!

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[@nunekesava8910]

the congress might as well try tharoor sir as a pm candidate to take on modi sir in coming elections

[@pardeeptandon]

Nune Kesava Reddy It is a very good idea and should be propagated by all congress men if they want to survive as a political party . Or alternatively he should join BJP

[@cgartistsaifhaider]

Indeed he has a calibre of becoming PM but Congress people are not in a mood of anyone except Rahul Gandi and that is the reason why Congress is getting defeated repeatedly. I wish they wake up before it is too late.

[@viranasirilankeshvara9507]

This is the best politician around in the world today, but I have a suspicion about his leadership quality. Because he was an under secretary general to the most absurd secretary general Kofi Annan. Although Kofi was not as ridiculous as Ban Ki Moon, it was Kofi's time Iraq and Afghanistan were attacked and Shashi stood behind Kofi.

[@prateekagarwal5853]

The Indian population isn't ready for a PM like this. The Indian public still needs a rabble rouser rather than an informed and composed orator. His speeches in English will skip over the heads of 70% of India's voting populace.

[@hameedjalal]

What are you insinuating Virana? When two mad elephants maraud a village would it be prudent to stop them with bare hands? Is that what you call leadership? Had you been in the shoes of Kofi Annan, Ban Ki Moon or for that matter Shashi Tharoor, your pants would have been totally wet.

[@yousufuddinmohammad5636]

Jai hind. real history on the face of people with amnesia of history

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[@naveenchandra2493]

Why is anti "The Hindu" is sponsoring this talk? I think present The Hindu owner and editors are supporters of British colonialism and they would not like British criticized.

[@indianmilitary]

The tamil audience are also "The hindu" readers. The lady who shot the first question at sashi was a typical tamil commie who hides behind the false narrative created by commies that rigid caste system was always there and how India was always poor even before the colonialists came. It suits their anti-hindu, anti-bjp pseudo secular ideology

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[@streb6]

perpetuation continues and will continue if society would not progress beyond hierarchy, discrimination,division and rule

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[@sadhooramrup4328]

Irritating that so many heads pass by the camera - cannot go around nor bend

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[@nadieperumal5770]

India celebrated its independence with great euphoria with pomp and ceremony.

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[@ShekharSircar]

Wow! Two luminaries huddling at one point!

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[@navnit3978]

Shassis Tharoor, You would make the best prime minister of India ever.Please dont waste your time in cricket with a brilliant knowledge like yous you should consider an honest rightious and justice general secretary of united nations,instead of the biased and corrupt and pro western one we had previously, ones we had in recent years

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[@kunjbhardwaj48]

Gandhi and Chrchill were contemporaries during Boer war in S A.Gandhi having first look at English atrocities on Dutch and other continental Europeans and Churchill as war correspondent writing about pro English.

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[@inder19852000]

Its a shame that we need a Tharoor to understand exploitation of India by the British. Why do we still learn advantages of British rule in schools?

[@RahulKumar-ng2gh]

tony thomas because leftist like this newspaper has ruined our textbooks

[@2sridhark]

That question must be put to Shashi Tharoor who is in Congress. We did learn that British divided India through its policy of divide and rule but we were never told all the gory details how the exploitation happened. That is something we need to research ourselves and learn. google the words: The Atlantic, British colonial rule, Sutherland and see what you come up with.

[@samwell8]

Maybe Indian schools should teach about Hitler and Stalin? They don't learn our history we don't learn theirs.

[@kumarkrishnan2327]

pity you that shashi has to give you recent indian history lesson.

[@kumarkrishnan2327]

@@samwell8 yes this is because of left & scamgrass

[@imrank340]

A Question of an apology or an Atonement ================================== Who should Queen or PM? Since ages Briain governed by Monarchy; bless the Oliver Cromwell who managed to abolish, but still some remnant of power remained at the Monarchy's Throne; hence the Queen of England's apology is more acceptable and appropriate. British ruled in India to be precise 184year; less than Moghuls who build the nation but British looted, ransacked the country and extracted last ounces wealth from most prosperous Country on the Earth, India. When David Cameron visited Golden Temple, in Punjab, he did not even come close to mutter the words Jalianwala Bagh massacre in which sheer innocent folks murdered by Col Dyar; which is most poignant and painful memories for Indians; some of the folks still alive who lost their loved one. Britain can do a goodwill gesture by returning Indian Dimond "Kohinoor" back India; will be the first step in right direction. Now a day's; every now and then British PM or Chancellor Ex or some minor MP (shrimp) paying a visit to India to get business; more to messaging Modi's balls.

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[@DocRealTalk]

Authentic Hindu sound engineering ^^

[@money5434]

It is interesting to see Shashi argue how British should apologise for the atrocities committed on Indians by citing Justin Trudeau's example. When is the Congress party going to apologise for the atrocities committed on their native Sikhs? Such hypocrisy on his part. On the contrary they would like the Sikhs to forget what happened let alone give an apology.

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[@juliandenormanville5225]

Vhrist this man fancies himself!

[@naveenchandra2493]

Sorry. But retribution on England is warranted.

[@arkuis]

But what would that achieve?

[@samwell8]

That would achieve nothing. Doing that would make you worse than the colonizers. India without Britain wouldn't exist, a world without British colonialism would be a world without Democracy or Freedom. Sorry to say but even being able to access the internet you should thank the British for as they created it. You don't realise that if you wasn't colonised you would still be using stone tools and living in caves

[@juliandenormanville5225]

Talk is cheap pal...plenty of people fancied visiting retribution on Britain...it hasn't often gone well..

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[@utubetruthteller]

Though we cant turnback time but I think without british intervention India may remain undivided but dominated by Muslim rule. I don't know which way that would turn out to be. May be without british intervention in India the world history would have been different.

[@sadanandpoojari5811]

no I don't think so

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[@byculla6]

Freddy Mercury!! Ya-a-sss!

[@user-sl3uj1xq1m]

My straight question to Mr. Tharoor is this, that we as a nation are so entrenched in the mindset of blaming the British colonialism. But do you really think that if the latter had not robbed us, we would have prospered in all these years.? I will give you an example. The entire world is talking about the Britain's three prime ministers in one year. But they have the nerves to "defenestrate" even the top leaders if they failed to deliver their promises. Do we have those guts? Your speeches are clap traps. I am sorry.

[@swaransamuel587]

He is a sweet educated lier.He killed his wife.before British rule untouchibility was ruling in the name of brahmins and upper caste people.After the British invasion,they introduced education equality of education.There was social evil act of SATHI. Innocent widows women were lively burned by the brahmins.RICH and DEVELOPMENT is different.India was under developing under British rule.Hinduism has UNTOUCHIBILITY.Dr.sashi can u explain why UNTOUCHIBILITY is still exist in India.When he said about colineal rule he need to tell about pre colineal rule as well.

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[@ganesh151]

Reading all your opinions, I suggest you read also the book "India, under siege, the enemy within" by Professor Mohan Ragbeer, now retired from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, which was published in 2015 and acclaimed lifelong student of Indian and British Imperial history. It was published in 2015 and is available at Amazon and on Kindle. The book traces the history of India as told in ancient Indian accounts and rejects the heavily publicised British falsifications of that history which were taught at all levels of Indian schooling, for 150 years, i.e. up to today. The book repeats the corrections publicised for several decades by Indian and non-Indian authors (referenced), supported by recent data from archaeology (Saraswati/Indus civilisation), astronomy, space exploration, satellite imaging, philology, genetics and other disciplines. The author includes background data on European and Middle Eastern nations that have usurped Indian sovereignty, seized its wealth, its seminal discoveries in mathematics, sciences and philology, and subverted its progress. From the 8th to the 18th centuries Muslims raided, seeking spoils and territory, gained a foothold after three centuries, during which they acquired and absorbed Hindu knowledge and taught it in their first caliphates, thence in Europe. The Mongols destroyed the Baghdad Caliphate in 1258; three centuries later they conquered northern India, and governed it, as a fractious dictatorship, under sharia laws, for 300 years. British aristocrats-a young civilisation, sly, ambitious and adventurous-came to Mughal India to trade, but stayed to raid (you might coin a word traid), conquering half of India and controlling the rest as subsidiary alliances, by force, corruption and treachery, enslaving Indians, looting the country and transferring its assets to Britain. Then, by a prolonged and jingoistic campaign of misinformation, curricular indoctrination, language substitution, and religious subversion-Lord Macaulay’s plan-they subjugated Indians so that today, the Indian middle class is heavily anglicised, many severed from historical roots. Over 25 million have become Christians, powered by Western NGOs; Islam has grown five times since 1951 to 180 million, versus three times for all India, and slightly more than Pakistan. Each minority religion now campaigns for a large mass of Indian land. Independent India adopted a secular constitutional democracy, but has so far failed to establish a uniform civil code, the backbone of secularism. There is a section on the Indian Diaspora and the contribution of the older migrations to the survival and thriving of Indian culture, cuisine and heritage outside of India, and their increasing influence on mainland India. The book is a mine of information and a fitting companion to those that came a bit later. Critics here have praised its literary style, its scope, the unique presentation of early European development, the extensive bibliography and illustrations, some of which also appear in Tharoor's book. His previous historical work is a massive exploration of the effects of the Cold War on a British colony with a majority Indian population, titled The Indelible Red Stain, in 2 volumes, published in 2011, which contains a long chapter on India, laying out the skeleton of the definitive book on India. Ganesh Parma

[@englishalan222]

Did the book say how India fragmented with the collapse of the Mughal Empire and how it was united again under the British

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[@nadieperumal5770]

India celebrated its independence with great euphoria with lots of pomp and ceremony. 200 hundred years of colonial rule had come to an end. The British left the Indian shores for the last time leaving behind a nation to steer its own destiny. What they left behind was a battle hardened army, a navy and a air force. You could say a super power in the Indian Ocean. Japan was flattened, in China a war was still waged between the Communists and the Nationalist China. So the only powerful country east of the Suez canal was India. Communist China was not included in the United Nations while Formosa was a founding member of the organisation. China refused to join objecting Formosa presence. This was where India came in. Indian Foreign Minister Krishna Menon debated on behalf of the communist country at the expense of Formosa. While he debated in the UN assembly the Chinese Communist under the leadership of Chairman Mo Zee Dung massed his troops all along the northern border of India. They invaded and annexed an Indian state called Akaschin. This state was larger than the whole of Ireland. The People's Liberation Army also took hundreds of square miles of Indian territory along Ladakh and beyond. In 20 years after independence we lost so much. Tharoor hates the British rule of 200 years. They kept the country together for so long and handed to us lock stock and barrel when they did. Keep hating the British is not the way forward Mr Tharoor. Let us ask ourselves where we went wrong for a change.

[@sadanandpoojari5811]

British never gave our country united they created Muslim league and you know what Muslim league did later even when they left India they gave maharajah to choose india or be independent it was sardar vallhabhai Patel diplomacy which made india united

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[@umasarat2983]

😟This is totally a out of sink video. It is very distracting!!

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[@hanumanthji]

SHASHI THAROOR WHILE ADVOCATING INCLUSION IN SCHOOLS OF BRITAIN OF THEIR COLONIAL HISTORY IS SILENT ON WHY IT IS ABSENT IN OUR OWN SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS.?

[@amitkumar-wj6pf]

gopinath hanumanthiya We never colonised any country!!!!

[@beverlyburton9292]

get rid of these hsunting movies as in ASAP.

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secular-condemnation.

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[@inder19852000]

Shashi must join BJP. Congress is so corrupt with heirs of political dynasty, Rahul Gandhi who cannot even talk properly

[@pragasamramaswamy1592]

Don't drool. In fact, some good people in BJP should join congress. Because that is not the place for talented people.

[@arvindjaissy1955]

Bjp is for illiterate extremists who will rape innocent Muslim girls during riots but are otherwise bhramcharis

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