02-16-2009, 09:14 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Jan 24 2009, 05:17 AM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Jan 24 2009, 05:17 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->scribd version of B B Lal's presentation
Anyone, any updates on YouTube links?
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Viren, I need help on uploading the videos. I have a program called Studio by Pinnacle which will permit me to splice and dice the videos. But it is a time consuming affair. In the meanatime i am posting several papers in scribd .
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_M0uFGP8EATQ/SZktLRBI...0S.%20Blunt.jpg
In the meantime i have discovered something about Wilfred Skawen Blunt He made the following comments about England . I might note that when he was brought to my attention by Acharya i had a particular aversion to him for suggesting the formation of a Sunni Islamic state in the subcontinent, without so much as a perfunctory bow to the strong sentiments of the majority of the population. But it turns out that my suspicions that he was a complex character and a far more multi dimensional man, then such an egregious viewpoint would indicate.Still any friend of such an evil man as Lord Lytton cannot be regarded as a decent human being .
This quote is from the pen of William Durant in The case for india" in which he makes an impassioned plea to the rest of the world for Britain to grant self rule to India
"In his book, âSecret History of the English Occupation of Egyptâ (p. 47), Wilfrid Scawen Blunt gives some strong and important testimony regarding British rule in India as seen close at hand and under the most favorable light. He was an intimate personal friend of Lord Lytton (Lord Lytton barely qualifes as a member of the human race, because under his watch several millions of Indians died ) , who at that time was the Viceroy of India. Mr. Blunt went there to make a study of the condition of things there. He found that British rule in India, instead of being a blessing, was working Indiaâs ruin. Of the British Imperial system in general he writes:
"India's famines have been severer and more frequent , its agricultural poverty hasdeepened. The rural population has become more hopelessly in debt abnd their despair was desperate.The system of constantly enhancing the land values (i,e, thereby raising the valuation and assessment) has not been altered. The salt tax still rubs the very poor. What was bad twenty five years ago was worse today. At any rate there is the same drain of Indian food to alien mouths. Endemic famines and endemic plagues are facts which no official statistics can explain away
âIt is one of the evils of the English Imperial system that it cannot meddle anywhere among free people, even with quite innocent intentions, without in the end doing evil. Of India he writes: âI am disappointed with India, which seems just as ill governed as the rest of Asia, only with good intentions instead of bad ones or none at all. There is just the same heavy taxation, government by foreign officials, and waste of money, that one sees in Turkey"
. The result is the same, and I donât see much difference between making the starving Hindoo pay for a cathedral at Calcutta and taxing Bulgarians for a palace on the Bosphorusâ¦.In India the ânativesâ as they call them, are a race of slaves, frightened, unhappy, terribly thin. Though myself a good Conservative and member of the London Carlton Club, I own to being shocked at the bondage in which they are held, and my faith in British institutions and blessings of English rule has received a severe blowâ¦â¦if we go on developing the country at the present rate, the inhabitants will have, sooner or later, to resort to cannibalism, for there will be nothing but each other left to eat.â
Anyone, any updates on YouTube links?
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Viren, I need help on uploading the videos. I have a program called Studio by Pinnacle which will permit me to splice and dice the videos. But it is a time consuming affair. In the meanatime i am posting several papers in scribd .
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_M0uFGP8EATQ/SZktLRBI...0S.%20Blunt.jpg
In the meantime i have discovered something about Wilfred Skawen Blunt He made the following comments about England . I might note that when he was brought to my attention by Acharya i had a particular aversion to him for suggesting the formation of a Sunni Islamic state in the subcontinent, without so much as a perfunctory bow to the strong sentiments of the majority of the population. But it turns out that my suspicions that he was a complex character and a far more multi dimensional man, then such an egregious viewpoint would indicate.Still any friend of such an evil man as Lord Lytton cannot be regarded as a decent human being .
This quote is from the pen of William Durant in The case for india" in which he makes an impassioned plea to the rest of the world for Britain to grant self rule to India
"In his book, âSecret History of the English Occupation of Egyptâ (p. 47), Wilfrid Scawen Blunt gives some strong and important testimony regarding British rule in India as seen close at hand and under the most favorable light. He was an intimate personal friend of Lord Lytton (Lord Lytton barely qualifes as a member of the human race, because under his watch several millions of Indians died ) , who at that time was the Viceroy of India. Mr. Blunt went there to make a study of the condition of things there. He found that British rule in India, instead of being a blessing, was working Indiaâs ruin. Of the British Imperial system in general he writes:
"India's famines have been severer and more frequent , its agricultural poverty hasdeepened. The rural population has become more hopelessly in debt abnd their despair was desperate.The system of constantly enhancing the land values (i,e, thereby raising the valuation and assessment) has not been altered. The salt tax still rubs the very poor. What was bad twenty five years ago was worse today. At any rate there is the same drain of Indian food to alien mouths. Endemic famines and endemic plagues are facts which no official statistics can explain away
âIt is one of the evils of the English Imperial system that it cannot meddle anywhere among free people, even with quite innocent intentions, without in the end doing evil. Of India he writes: âI am disappointed with India, which seems just as ill governed as the rest of Asia, only with good intentions instead of bad ones or none at all. There is just the same heavy taxation, government by foreign officials, and waste of money, that one sees in Turkey"
. The result is the same, and I donât see much difference between making the starving Hindoo pay for a cathedral at Calcutta and taxing Bulgarians for a palace on the Bosphorusâ¦.In India the ânativesâ as they call them, are a race of slaves, frightened, unhappy, terribly thin. Though myself a good Conservative and member of the London Carlton Club, I own to being shocked at the bondage in which they are held, and my faith in British institutions and blessings of English rule has received a severe blowâ¦â¦if we go on developing the country at the present rate, the inhabitants will have, sooner or later, to resort to cannibalism, for there will be nothing but each other left to eat.â