Almost unthinkable today, but when the British came, India was a sober nation! Durant tell us...Instead of encouraging education, the government encouraged drink. The temperance of the people, said Warren Hastings, “is demonstrated in the simplicity of their food and their total abstinence from spirituous liquors and other substances of intoxication.” With the first trading post established by the British, salons were opened for the sale of rum, and the East India Company mad

Go the British way...just make an Indian pay! Let these figures tell you this sordid and scary tale! I asked the guide at Trichinopoly how the people of India had found three or 400 years ago, the money to build the vast temples there and at Madurai and Tanjore. He answered that the Rajah had been able to build these edified despite the fact that they had taxed the people much less severely than the English we're doing. Against this terrible bloodletting, the Hindus have no r

By 1858 the crimes of the company so smelled to heaven that the British government took over the captured and plundered territories as a colony of the Crown; A little island took over half a continent. England paid the company handsomely and added the purchase price to the public debt of India, to be redeemed, principle and interest [originally at 10 1/2% ] out of taxes upon the Hindu people. All the debt on the company's books together with the accrued interest on these debt

Excerpts from The case for India by Will Durant: Those who have seen the unspeakable poverty and physiological weakness of the Hindus to-day will hardly believe that it was the wealth of eighteenth-century India which attracted the commercial pirates of England and France. This world was created by the Hindus’ vast and varied industries. Nearly every kind of manufacture or product known to the civilized world nearly every kind of creation of man's brain and hand, existing any

Excerpts from The case for India by Will Durant: When Alexander the Great invaded India in 326 BC, his historian, Megasthenes, recorded his amazement at finding on the Indus a people quite as civilized and artistic as the Greeks, who were then at the height of their curve. Mother India is in many ways the Mother of us all. Let us remember, also, in order that we may see the problem in perspective, the age and variety of India's civilization. Recent excavations at Mohenjo-Daro

The greatest crime in all history - The deliberate bleeding of India, says the scholar and historian who studied and wrote 11 volumes long Story of Civilization! Now that's saying something! Excerpts for The Case for India by Will Durant. Durant was a rare Western scholar-historian-commentator who spoke with blunt candour against the evils of the British colonialism and its crippling effects on Bharatavarsha. The book #CaseforIndia which should be compulsory reading for India