What a skull in an English pub says about India's 1857 mutiny

Re:What a skull in an English pub says about India's 1857 mu... by farazbabar on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:05PM (#16768772)

Of course it is. However, divide and rule was the original british mantra. It saddens me personally how well it worked on the Indian sub-continent and as a student of history I wonder why it did.

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Re:What a skull in an English pub says about India's 1857 mu... by tdb7893 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:23PM (#16768884)

Was the history that peaceful before the British got there? I was under the impression that the sub-continent always had a decent amount of fighting and unrest

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Re:What a skull in an English pub says about India's 1857 mu... by smoothpenguin on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:50PM (#16769078)

There was always unrest, true, though it was no exception for the time considering its size. Either way the colonialists did nothing to help the situation but were focused on milking the cash cow. https://youtu.be/f7CW7S0zxv4

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Re:What a skull in an English pub says about India's 1857 mu... by KaiserPro on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:33PM (#16769370)

But the british only really replaced the Raj, or shoved a hand firmly up the puppet hole. The power structures and practices, along with the sectarian tensions were already there.

Does that make the british blameless? no. The evangelicals that were hell bent (excuse the pun) on taking what essentially was an abusive trading relationship and turning it into a massive christian mission. that corruption of purpose, "natives must be cured/saved" arguably caused the most damage

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