The East India Company, the original corporate raiders

Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by pmyteh on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:58PM (#15314794)

It's covered in school history classes, sufficiently anti-colonially for a certain slice of conservative talking heads to decry Britain 'talking down its glorious past'.

My class covered the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre in some depth at age 15; a lovely example of late Empire brutality where one of our army officers ordered machine guns turned on a non-violent crowd who were demonstrating in breach of government order.

So it's not covered in any depth, but the empire certainly isn't celebrated uncritically in school or in other official contexts.

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Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by newen on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:06PM (#15314858)

Actually they weren't even demonstrating. It was a gathering of people from inside and outside Amritsar, who came there for a festival. The order against gatherings of more than 4 people weren't distributed well, and so most of those people weren't aware of the order. Dyer then went and ordered the massacre.

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