which talent sir Winston Churchill attain in India?
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January 31, 2015, marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill is known mostly for his lengthy political career, especially his wartime leadership as prime minister of Britain between 1940 and 1945. But Churchill had another, longer career as a writer of journalism and books on history and historical figures – a career that began in Cuba in 1895, when as a war correspondent for the Graphic he wrote five dispatches about the Cuban insurrection. However, Churchill’s writing was shaped much more significantly on India’s North-West Frontier in 1896-1897, when he was assigned to the Malakand Field Force.
It was the high tide of British imperial rule, and India was the “jewel in the crown” of British possessions. On September 11, 1896, Churchill sailed from Southampton on the S.S. Britannia with other officers of the Fourth Hussars bound for Bombay. When he arrived at Bombay Harbor, he wrote in My Early Life, we “pulled up the curtain on what might well have been a different planet.” The officers traveled next to Bangalore, a thirty-six hour train journey.
It was while Churchill was in India that he discovered an intense desire to learn history. He “resolved to read history, philosophy, economics, and things like that.” He wrote to his mother Jennie, asking her to send books – mostly history books. He “devoured” Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Macaulay’s 12-volume History of England. He also read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, Darwin, Malthus, Aristotle, Plato and others.