July 20th, 2001 The post independence image of India from 1947- 1977 was of a country with self respect and capable of charting its own course and providing some kind of alternative to nations reluctant to be camp followers of either the USA or the Soviets. Them happy days are, Alas! over and even the… Continue reading British Raj and Indian Coolies
June 11th, 2001 Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of the Punjab (only the area across the Sutlej river) died in the afternoon of 27th June 1839. A stroke he suffered on the night of 17th August 1835 left him with a substantially diminished frame and half his face paralysed.
September 18th, 2001 “The British conquered the world in a fit of absence of mind.” Sir John Seeley. The kind of hypocrisy this statement embodies has made England into “perfidious Albion” for their neighbours, the French as well as the rest of the world.
