Thought about where to post the following: whether in the christobrit thread or the general christo thread. Then I figured, Hey, it belongs here - what with Dimwit d'Souza having penned his gawd-awful "two cheers for colonialism" (from his obviously fiction book) famous for its making light of - actually, outright denial of through ommission and sugarcoating - the HUGE genocide the christians from Britain perpetrated in India during their christorule. If you don't know what I'm penning about, see here for Dinesh "crikey I'm brown how did that happen" D'Souza stuff.
So the following then is for the people who are sick to death of the Hindu Holocaust denier D'Souza (and his American sycophant - Christopher J. Alden "Chairman & CEO of Six Apart, Ltd., the worldâs largest blogging company" - the one who was pleased to rave about D'Sauce's fictitious delirium) and want to know facts instead. You know, Facts - the stuff that D'Sauce would find hard to recognise even when it's staring him in the face. But let's not blame Dimwit 'Dinesh D'Souza' for his lying; because, as is public knowledge, he is impeded from speaking or writing facts/truth due to his debilitating christian handicap.
For the interested, here's the first chapter of The Book That Was Banned In Britain: <b>Will Durant's The Case For India</b> (1930, from the 1st edition). Searchable text.
<b>PDF Link:</b> http://www.upitus.com/download.php?file=7dde31ca (13.13 Mb, a real downloader hog, but worth it IMO)
The chapter is titled "For India".
The above contains loads of facts - reads like a horror novel! - about the greatness of christianity (as manifested in India by christoBritish colonialism) such as:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->When the British came there was, throughout India, a system of communal schools, managed by the village communities. The agents of the East India Company destroyed these village communities, and took no steps to replace the schools; even to-day, after a century of effort to restore them, they stand at only 66% of their number a hundred years ago.109<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hence the 93% illiteracy of India. In several provinces literacy was more widespread before the British took possession than it is now after a century and a half of British control;118 in several of the states ruled by native princes it is higher
than in British India. "The responsibility of the British for India's illiteracy seems to be beyond question."119<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Government spends every year on education eight cents a head 113 it spends on the army eighty-three cents a head.114 In 1911 a Hindu representative, Gokhale, introduced a bill for universal compulsory primary education in India; it was defeated by the British and Government-appointed members. In 1916 Patel introduced a similar bill, which was defeated by the British and Government-appointed members; 115 the Government could not afford to give the people schools. Instead, it spent most of its eight cents for education on secondary schools and universities, where the language used was English, the history, literature, customs and morals taught were English, and young Hindus, after striving amid poverty to prepare themselves for college, found that they had merely let themselves in for a ruthless process that aimed to de-nationalize and de-Indianize them, and turn them into imitative Englishmen. The first charge on a modern state, after the maintenance of public health, is the establishment of education, universal, compulsory and free. But the total expenditure for education in India is less than one-half the educational expenditure in New York State.116 In the quarter of a century between 1882 and 1907, while public schools were growing all over the world, the appropriation for education in British India increased by $2,000,000; in the same period appropriations for the fratricide army increased by $43,000,000.117 It pays to be free.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The expense of maintaining this army, whose function is the continual subjection of India by bullets, shells and air-bombs, is borne by the Indian people. In 1926 its cost was $200,735,660-a tax of 3% on the scanty earnings of every man, woman and child in the land.
Wherever the Indian army sheds its (mostly native) blood, in Afghanistan or Burma or Mesopotamia or France (for the government is free to send it anywhere), the expense is met not by the Empire which it enlarges or defends, but by Indian revenues alone. When England had to send British troops to India in 1857 it charged India with the cost not only of transporting them, maintaining them in India, and bringing them back home, but with their maintenance in Great Britain for six months before they sailed.56 During the nineteenth century India paid $450,000,000 for wars fought for England outside of India with Indian troops. She contributed $500,000,000 to the War chest of the Allies, $700,000,000 in subscriptions to War loans, 800,000 soldiers, and 400,000 laborers to defend the British Empire outside of India during the Great War.57 In 1922 64% of the total revenue of India was devoted to this army of fratricides: Hindus compelled to kill Hindus in Burma until Burma consented to come under British rule; Hindus compelled to defend on the fields of Flanders the Empire which in every year, as will appear later, was starving ten million Hindus to death. No other army in the world consumes so large a proportion of the public revenues. In 1926 the Viceroy announced the intention of the Government to build a "Royal Indian Navy"; the proposal added that this navy should be used wherever in the Empire the British Parliament might care to send it, and that the entire cost of the navy should be met from the revenues of India.58 It pays to be free.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We can now understand why there are famines in India. Their cause, in plain terms, is not the absence of sufficient food, but the inability of the people to pay for it. Famines have increased in frequency and severity under British rule. From 1770 to 1900, 25,000,000 Hindus died of starvation; 15,000,000 of these died in the last quarter
of the century, in the famines of 1877, 1889, 1897, and 1900.185 Contemporary students186 estimate that 8,000,000 will die of starvation in India during the present year. It was hoped that the railways would solve the problem by enabling the rapid transport of food from unaffected to affected regions; the fact that the worst famines have come since the building of the railways proves that the cause has not been the lack of transportation, nor the failure of the monsoon rains (though this, of course, is the occasion), nor even overpopulation (which is a contributory factor) ; behind all these, as the fundamental source of the terrible famines in India, lies such merciless exploitation, such unbalanced exportation of goods, and such brutal collection of high taxes in the very midst of famine,137 that the starving peasants cannot pay what is asked for the food that the railways bring them.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Really lots of things worth pasting here, but it's all there in the PDF. Besides, it's better to read it in order.
Of course, it also inevitably contains something about Oryans and how therefore N India is "the more important half of India". <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Must be the same logic by which 'the northern/western hemisphere of the world is more important than everywhere/everyone else'.
But immediately after that bit he writes something common to much of 18th/19th century beliefs and also includes an admission at least that much of the maths in the west is from India:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->that India was the mother-land of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages; that she was the mother of our philosophy, mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother, through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.*
(in footnote
* The first volume of the author's Story of Civilization will substantiate this in detail.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So the following then is for the people who are sick to death of the Hindu Holocaust denier D'Souza (and his American sycophant - Christopher J. Alden "Chairman & CEO of Six Apart, Ltd., the worldâs largest blogging company" - the one who was pleased to rave about D'Sauce's fictitious delirium) and want to know facts instead. You know, Facts - the stuff that D'Sauce would find hard to recognise even when it's staring him in the face. But let's not blame Dimwit 'Dinesh D'Souza' for his lying; because, as is public knowledge, he is impeded from speaking or writing facts/truth due to his debilitating christian handicap.
For the interested, here's the first chapter of The Book That Was Banned In Britain: <b>Will Durant's The Case For India</b> (1930, from the 1st edition). Searchable text.
<b>PDF Link:</b> http://www.upitus.com/download.php?file=7dde31ca (13.13 Mb, a real downloader hog, but worth it IMO)
The chapter is titled "For India".
The above contains loads of facts - reads like a horror novel! - about the greatness of christianity (as manifested in India by christoBritish colonialism) such as:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->When the British came there was, throughout India, a system of communal schools, managed by the village communities. The agents of the East India Company destroyed these village communities, and took no steps to replace the schools; even to-day, after a century of effort to restore them, they stand at only 66% of their number a hundred years ago.109<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hence the 93% illiteracy of India. In several provinces literacy was more widespread before the British took possession than it is now after a century and a half of British control;118 in several of the states ruled by native princes it is higher
than in British India. "The responsibility of the British for India's illiteracy seems to be beyond question."119<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Government spends every year on education eight cents a head 113 it spends on the army eighty-three cents a head.114 In 1911 a Hindu representative, Gokhale, introduced a bill for universal compulsory primary education in India; it was defeated by the British and Government-appointed members. In 1916 Patel introduced a similar bill, which was defeated by the British and Government-appointed members; 115 the Government could not afford to give the people schools. Instead, it spent most of its eight cents for education on secondary schools and universities, where the language used was English, the history, literature, customs and morals taught were English, and young Hindus, after striving amid poverty to prepare themselves for college, found that they had merely let themselves in for a ruthless process that aimed to de-nationalize and de-Indianize them, and turn them into imitative Englishmen. The first charge on a modern state, after the maintenance of public health, is the establishment of education, universal, compulsory and free. But the total expenditure for education in India is less than one-half the educational expenditure in New York State.116 In the quarter of a century between 1882 and 1907, while public schools were growing all over the world, the appropriation for education in British India increased by $2,000,000; in the same period appropriations for the fratricide army increased by $43,000,000.117 It pays to be free.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The expense of maintaining this army, whose function is the continual subjection of India by bullets, shells and air-bombs, is borne by the Indian people. In 1926 its cost was $200,735,660-a tax of 3% on the scanty earnings of every man, woman and child in the land.
Wherever the Indian army sheds its (mostly native) blood, in Afghanistan or Burma or Mesopotamia or France (for the government is free to send it anywhere), the expense is met not by the Empire which it enlarges or defends, but by Indian revenues alone. When England had to send British troops to India in 1857 it charged India with the cost not only of transporting them, maintaining them in India, and bringing them back home, but with their maintenance in Great Britain for six months before they sailed.56 During the nineteenth century India paid $450,000,000 for wars fought for England outside of India with Indian troops. She contributed $500,000,000 to the War chest of the Allies, $700,000,000 in subscriptions to War loans, 800,000 soldiers, and 400,000 laborers to defend the British Empire outside of India during the Great War.57 In 1922 64% of the total revenue of India was devoted to this army of fratricides: Hindus compelled to kill Hindus in Burma until Burma consented to come under British rule; Hindus compelled to defend on the fields of Flanders the Empire which in every year, as will appear later, was starving ten million Hindus to death. No other army in the world consumes so large a proportion of the public revenues. In 1926 the Viceroy announced the intention of the Government to build a "Royal Indian Navy"; the proposal added that this navy should be used wherever in the Empire the British Parliament might care to send it, and that the entire cost of the navy should be met from the revenues of India.58 It pays to be free.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We can now understand why there are famines in India. Their cause, in plain terms, is not the absence of sufficient food, but the inability of the people to pay for it. Famines have increased in frequency and severity under British rule. From 1770 to 1900, 25,000,000 Hindus died of starvation; 15,000,000 of these died in the last quarter
of the century, in the famines of 1877, 1889, 1897, and 1900.185 Contemporary students186 estimate that 8,000,000 will die of starvation in India during the present year. It was hoped that the railways would solve the problem by enabling the rapid transport of food from unaffected to affected regions; the fact that the worst famines have come since the building of the railways proves that the cause has not been the lack of transportation, nor the failure of the monsoon rains (though this, of course, is the occasion), nor even overpopulation (which is a contributory factor) ; behind all these, as the fundamental source of the terrible famines in India, lies such merciless exploitation, such unbalanced exportation of goods, and such brutal collection of high taxes in the very midst of famine,137 that the starving peasants cannot pay what is asked for the food that the railways bring them.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Really lots of things worth pasting here, but it's all there in the PDF. Besides, it's better to read it in order.
Of course, it also inevitably contains something about Oryans and how therefore N India is "the more important half of India". <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Must be the same logic by which 'the northern/western hemisphere of the world is more important than everywhere/everyone else'.
But immediately after that bit he writes something common to much of 18th/19th century beliefs and also includes an admission at least that much of the maths in the west is from India:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->that India was the mother-land of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages; that she was the mother of our philosophy, mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother, through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.*
(in footnote
* The first volume of the author's Story of Civilization will substantiate this in detail.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->