PM May should ‘beg forgiveness’ for UK’s colonial sins: Indian MP
That’s from Press TV.
How interesting that the Iranian state broadcaster should be concentrating upon the British colonial experience there and not the one immediately preceding, the heavily Persian influenced Mughal Empire.
Should the UK also apologise for spending 25% of its naval budget on stamping out the slave trade?
You do know our history in Iran?
Because no-one’s colonial oppression is as bad as whitey’s colonial oppression.
How many Hindu, Buddhists, Jains did the Raj kill? thousands perhaps.
How many Hindu, Buddhists, Jains did the Mughal kill? Tens of millions.
Dear foreigners,
Kiss my hairy British arse.
Yours imperially,
Steve
Trolling. State-sponsored trolling, in fact.
Is the Indian MP going to apologize for the sins his government has inflicted on the Indians?
I mean, there really can’t be any excuses *there*, can there? Ignorance, they’re foreigners-and-not-real-people, etc.
Mote, beam, etc.
Thugee, suttee, female infanticide, the caste system, slavery: what Britain forced on India was awful.
don’t do it Theresa, but if you do, apologise for Ghandi too
The hyderabad massacres in 1948 killed 27 to 40 thousand people (some estimates are much higher). The Indian government has much to answer for, this wasn’t the action of one man making a split second decsion this was policy.
The appropriate response is as follows: “Fuck off, Apu.”
Didn’t realise Britain had colonised India. Part of what was India is currently colonising the UK. But I’m sure that’s not what they’re talking about.
Administered – or if you prefer ruled – but hardly colonised. Wasn’t that rather the point? A whole sub-continent ruled by a few thousand Brits.
To be technical, British rule was only direct over certain parts of the sub-continent. There were quite a number, some large, domains which continued to be ruled by their Princes, who were in allegiance to the King or Queen Emperor.
I wonder when India will apologise to Pakistan and Bangladesh….not holding my breath.
By India, does he mean that collection of perpetually feuding fiefdoms, kingdoms, and statelets that the British united to form the country of India of which Indians are no so proud?
..and the commentary over there seems even more, umm, deplorable than even the typical swivel-eyed idiot commentards one finds across the inter tubes.
We actually did make the trains run on time. Then there’s the whole Common Law, Parliamentary Democracy thing which means India has a fighting chance whereas Islamicised Pakistan is a disgusting fucking hellhole.
I agree we should beg forgiveness. We should ask the Indian people to forgive us for leaving and handing them over to the pro-Soviet kleptocrats in the Indian National Congress.
India was never better off than in the 70 years before independence.
“We actually did make the trains run on time.” Well, we actually did make the trains.