'Dozakhnama' is More Than a Conversation
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DAY 18 - Book Challenge : 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers. #20books #20books20days #BookCover #BritishNovelist #BritishRaj #India #Imperialism #Racism #Sexism #EdwardianLiterature #BritishLiterature #LiteraryImpressionism #ColonialLiterature #MysteryLiterature #EMForster #India_BrtishRule #FrankWilliamBrangwyn
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Dozakhnma - A Must Read!!!
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A Fatherless Nation
#BaaghiTV #Pakistan #BritishColonialism #Challenges #CulturalHeritage #BritishRaj #JesseJackson #QuaideAzam #MuhammadAliJinnah #Colonialism #PoliticalNegligence #Politicians #Dishonour
I wish somebody made a movie called "#Dewani se #Maharani" (#TaxCollection to #Empress) chronicling the rise of #Jawaan #Clive after #BattleOfPlassey leading to Dewani rights for the English #EastIndiaCompany, subsequent plundering of #India, and eventually the #Crown replacing #CompanyRaj with #BritishRaj under #Queen #Victoria as Empress of India
Add in the complicating factor that the Indian Railway System was built by the British primarily NOT to serve India, but as a means to efficiently usurp the land of its natural resources for the glory of the "empire". The game illicits an odd, uneasy, mix of fun, nostalgia and heaviness that's hard to express outwardly.
#India #TicketToRide #BoardGames #migrantstories #nostagia #colonialism #britishraj
The Indian Princely States (aka Native States or Princely India) were those states in the Indian subcontinent the British did not conquer but which were typically bound by treaty first to the East India Company and then to the British Crown. https://www.worldhistory.org/Indian_Princely_States/ #History #BritishRaj #EastIndiaCompany #India
FACT: A certain former #Britishraj govenor of #Bengal in #India, had trouble pronouncing certain Bengali names. So just before he left for the #UK he decided that Chattopadhyay, Bonophodhay and Mukapodhay would be changed to Chatterjea, Bannerjea and Mukarjee. That governor became a Lord upon arriving in UK.
Britain: *steals diamonds*
South Asia: you stole this, give it back
Britain: ok but what if we keep it but we TELL PEOPLE we stole it?
South Asia: ...
Britain: :)
The Indian Princely States (aka Native States or Princely India) were those states in the Indian subcontinent the British did not conquer but which were typically bound by treaty first to the East India Company and then to the British Crown. https://www.worldhistory.org/Indian_Princely_States/ #History #BritishRaj #EastIndiaCompany #India
The 13 April 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (aka Amritsar Massacre) was an infamous episode of brutality which saw General Dyer order his troops to open fire on an unarmed crowd of men, women, and children trapped in an abandoned walled garden during a Sikh festival. At least 379 people died, and over 1,500 were injured in the massacre.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Jallianwala_Bagh_Massacre/ #AmritsarMassacre #BritishIndia #BritishRaj
The Delhi Durbar was a spectacular public event held in India to commemorate the accession of a new British monarch to the title Empress or Emperor of India. Three Delhi Durbars were held: 1877, 1903, and 1911. The event involved military processions, elephants, and magnificent carriages, as well as a host of rulers of the Indian princely states paying homage to the British Crown in recognition... https://www.worldhistory.org/Delhi_Durbar/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #DelhiDurbar #BritishEmpire #BritishRaj
#Interesting did you know that 130 #coutries out of 195 countries have had their name changed by the #Britishraj aka #BritishEmpire.
"The Pillage Of India", The New York Review Of Books (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/british-pillage-of-india/).
#India #History #Britain #BritishRaj #EastIndiaCompany #Pillage #Famine #Bengal #Mughals #ShashiTharoor #WilliamDalrymple #Book #BookReview #IndianHistory
Listening to Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor on Audible. I'm constantly pausing it and yelling "they did what?!" "No way?!" "How dare they?!" And I'm only on second chapter. #ingloriousempire #colonialism #shashitharoor #britishraj
"Had it not been for the empire, Britain might have lost the second world war. The war certainly lost Britain the empire."
A very old article by William Dalrymple.
