.The views of this British writer help us understand their opinion about India.
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the past five years I have been bewitched by the story of the British in India. It started with my rediscovery of my grandmother’s family, the Lows of Clatto, who for more than a century endured mutiny, debt and disease everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows.
But then I was drawn into the wider history of this extraordinary enterprise. How did the British come to be ruling the most populous nation on earth? What did they think they were there for? Did they genuinely believe that the empire would last forever? I have tried to go beyond the breathtaking rush of events, the terror and the cruelty and the heroism, to get to the doubts and flashes of understanding which some of them had now and then, none more so than John Low, the family patriarch, who was famous for his love of native rule; yet who helped to depose three rajas and was ultimately blamed for the outbreak of the Great Mutiny. The books I have chosen illustrate these melancholy paradoxes of empire.
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While the sun set firmly on the British Empire many decades ago, we have never lacked in apologists for the Raj who deployed time-honoured tactics in rebutting the argument that British rule was an unwelcome experience for many.
Thus, unmindful of the inherent irony, some have mocked Tharoor for delivering his indictment of colonialism in a ‘plummy’ English accent. Others used a play that is straight from the Perry Anderson school of history. They acknowledged the iniquity of Empire, but rapidly moved on to the horrors inflicted on independent India by the Congress that Tharoor represents in Parliament. It were as if history was a somewhat macabre, additive game where the sins of some cancelled out those of others in the past.
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