In February 2016, the UK publisher ‘The Independent’ began a controversial campaign criticized by many as colonial, Hinduphobic and racist – to rename India’s port city Mumbai to Bombay. Mumbai was previously known as Bombay after the British’s bloody colonization of the Indian sub-continent for almost 100 years. Under the British Raj (British rulers), during […]
Did India (Hindustan) Benefit from the British Raj?
The idea that British rule in India was a force for good is not uncommon in Britain and even in certain sections of westernised Indian elite. Read right-of-centre British newspapers and you will regularly find articles and columns that glorify Britain’s colonial past, giving the impression that Britain was spreading the light of Western Civilisation […]
Impact of British Colonialism on Indian Society
By O.P. Sudrania Caste or Class Systems versus India in Global Perspective – CHAPTER EIGHT The Western invaders arrived with an express desire to colonise and exploit the indigenous people wherever they went, materially as well as spiritually. India was no exception. They had to find a way out to create further chasm in the local people […]