what was the policy of racial arrogance followed by British in India
Answers
Answer:
Chronicling the evils of British imperialism is imperative given the impact and legacy of that imperialism, and given the dishonest and selective nostalgia about it, not to mention downright ignorance. Almost 60 per cent of Britons were proud of the British Empire and almost 50 per cent thought it had made the colonies better off – a manifestation of what the scholar Paul Gilroy has termed postcolonial melancholia – according to a YouGov poll in 2014.
Inglorious Empire, by Shashi Tharoor, a United Nations diplomat turned Indian National Congress MP in New Delhi, adds to a growing list of books on what the British did to India, most recently Jon Wilson’s India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire. Wilson underlines how the British view of themselves as conquerors generated a racist delusion of “victor’s sovereignty”, an argument still fuelled by the current wave of empire nostalgia.
Tharoor notes, somewhat quietly in a footnote towards the end, that Wilson’s effort was published “just as this book was going to press” and “makes much the same case” about the extent to which Britain benefited from imperial rule at the expense of the conquered.
Engraving. The Versailles Conference in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, June 28th, 1919. President Clemenceau opens the session. Private Collection. (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/UIG via Getty Images)From Great War to a more intimate one
When it was over and the dead and wounded lay in pools of blood, moaning on the ground, Dyer forbade his soldiers to give any aid to the injuredThe Amritsar massacre: a cold, callous display of colonial evil
Eamon De Valera addressing a meeting in Los Angeles on his US tour as president of Dail Eireann. Photograph: Hulton ArchiveIreland 1919: How would victorious Sinn Féin wield power?
The great hall at Versailles was the site of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which imposed swingeing terms on Germany and blamed it and Austria-Hungary for starting the first World War. Paris Peace Treaties failed to create a secure, peaceful and lasting world order
Constance Markievicz and Kathleen Lynn at Earlsfort Terrace probably taken at the treaty debates, circa Dec 1921-Jan 1922. Photograph: Independent News and Media/Getty ImagesWomen in 1919: The ‘eyes and ears’ of the conflict
Blow by blow: Timeline of the War of Independence
There will be an address from President Michael D Higgins in the Round Room of the Mansion House. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish TimesDiary of events for 2019 commemorations
Solohead village outside Tipperary town.Soloheadbeg: ‘Wicked’ beginning of the War of Independence
The site of St Ultan’s Hospital, opened by Dr Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine ffrench Mullen in 1919, on Charlemont Street: the building is now a four-star hotel operated by the Dalata Group. Photograph: Ronan McGreevyHealthcare in the War of Independence: St Ultan’s children’s hospital
The faded headstone to constable James McDonnell of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who was killed during the Soloheadbeg ambush, states that he died in the line of duty. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy When the RIC was no longer seen as a benign force
Painting of the first Dáil by Norman Teeling. Countesy of the Oriel Gallery theoriel.comFirst meeting of Dáil Éireann ‘would have done credit to the British House of Commons’
Members of the Auxillary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary. This force was first conceived in 1919 as a cadre of British officers supporting the RIC against the IRA Honouring RIC dead a commemorative step too far
Sinn Féin leaders 1919. Thirty-six elected members were in jail. P Maloney on left in second row. Photograph: Hulton ArchiveEunan O’Halpin: My middle-aged, middle-class, revolutionary great-grandfather
Tom Johnson was the leader of the Labour Party from 1917 to 1927 and the leader of the opposition in the absence of anti-Treaty politicians between 1922 and 1927 Democratic Programme set out the vision for a new Republic
For two weeks in 1919 the ordinary people of Limerick city took over, creating, albeit briefly, the embryonic elements of workers’ control – of, some would say, a new societyWhen Limerick workers seized the city – for two weeks
`The Chief’, 1919. Eamon de Valera wearing a native American ceremonial head-dress. Photograph: taken from Judging Dev, by Diarmaid Ferriter, published by Royal Irish AcademyIreland’s global revolution: how the struggle for independence went worldwide
