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To: Killing Time
Only saw two points.

Despite being from India, I don't despise the British. Like ALL cultures, they have good and bad points (some cultures have a lot more good than bad and vice versa, but that is a different story).
27 posted on 06/17/2004 7:07:42 AM PDT by razoroccam (read Germs of War to know the real armageddon)
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To: razoroccam

I thought people might need reminding that the Indian national movement did have its insurrectionary wing - Bose (my third one word point) backed the Japanese in WWII - bit like Irish ambivalence towards Hitler is the Brit perspective (I know there was a recent thread touching this area).

Personally, I think that much debate regarding the colonial legacy is one-dimensional. I think that it is perfectly possible to recognise that the British (and the Moghuls, come to that) left some things of lasting value but that overall the balance sheet is negative.

India is top of my must visit list - care to recommend a month's schedule? Always liked the look of Kerala myself, but would hate to miss the mountains.


28 posted on 06/17/2004 7:18:35 AM PDT by Killing Time
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