Romila Thapar's ancestor Kunj Behari Thapar was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1920 for his loyalty. The slavery runs deep.
Yes, this is very true. Pretty much the entire "elite class" in India, those who were wealthy and in power at the time of Independence were collaborators of the British.
Those who truly rebelled were impoverished, their lands taken, livelihoods destroyed.
Those who truly rebelled were impoverished, their lands taken, livelihoods destroyed.
Then those who'd been collaborators branded themselves as "freedom fighters" and wrote their own hagiography and faked the history of the real freedom struggle.
Read book "Netaji" which documents, from British archives, what caused the British to leave.
garudabooks.com
Read book "Netaji" which documents, from British archives, what caused the British to leave.
garudabooks.com
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