Our attitude to the British and Churchill should be twofold.
We should condemn what the British and Churchill imperialists did to India and indians ( about which I have already written in my earlier posts on facebook and on my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in ). While India was broadly a prosperous country before the battles of Plassey ( 1757) and Buxar ( 1764), enjoying over 30% of the world's trade, she became a poor country by the time they left in 1947, with our massive handicraft industry, which supplied textiles and other products to much of the known world, totally smashed,and vast number of our people reduced to destitution, beggary, crime ( to fill their stomachs ) and starvation, and having only 2-3% of the world's trade.
On the other hand, we must also admire the British people of the 17th and 18th centuries for their struggles against royal despotism and for democracy. We are full of admiration of Pym, Hampden, Milton, Cromwell, John Locke, Thomas Paine, John Wilkes, Thomas Erskine,etc.
Similarly, while we must condemn Churchill for his attitude towards indians, we must admire him for his leadership of the British people in the fight against the Nazis at a time when England was alone in this fight.
I have many British friends. Surely they cannot be blamed for the wrongs done by their ancestors, just as the Germans of today cannot be blamed for the crimes of the Nazis
We should condemn what the British and Churchill imperialists did to India and indians ( about which I have already written in my earlier posts on facebook and on my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in ). While India was broadly a prosperous country before the battles of Plassey ( 1757) and Buxar ( 1764), enjoying over 30% of the world's trade, she became a poor country by the time they left in 1947, with our massive handicraft industry, which supplied textiles and other products to much of the known world, totally smashed,and vast number of our people reduced to destitution, beggary, crime ( to fill their stomachs ) and starvation, and having only 2-3% of the world's trade.
On the other hand, we must also admire the British people of the 17th and 18th centuries for their struggles against royal despotism and for democracy. We are full of admiration of Pym, Hampden, Milton, Cromwell, John Locke, Thomas Paine, John Wilkes, Thomas Erskine,etc.
Similarly, while we must condemn Churchill for his attitude towards indians, we must admire him for his leadership of the British people in the fight against the Nazis at a time when England was alone in this fight.
I have many British friends. Surely they cannot be blamed for the wrongs done by their ancestors, just as the Germans of today cannot be blamed for the crimes of the Nazis
