The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country
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Published 2023-07-26
Special thanks to Shashi Tharoor for his book, "Inglorious Empire," which inspired this video.
All Comments (21)
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Thanks for watching everyone! Also, a quick error-correction: in the video, I mention the number is $43 trillion. Patnaik has estimated the true number at $45 trillion. Of course, there is much scholarly debate on this matter.
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The sad part is the most of the British people don't want to accept this fact
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This reminds me of a quote I read a little while ago. ‘Studying history will sometimes disturb you. Studying history will sometimes upset you. Studying history will sometimes make you furious. If studying history always makes you feel proud and happy, you probably aren’t studying history.’
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To all the fello Indians here, remeber this, and I've always said: "we are not developing, we are recovering". the center of the economic earth.
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Nigerian here, and totally not hating on a generation that wasn't involved in the crippling acts perpetrated by their predecessors. Hopefully India and all the other countries that were brutalized by the Great powers of old can recover from all the inhumane treatments they received. Thank you for spreading the awareness ❤
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The fact that yesterday India arrived to the moon first than the UK is incredible, congratulations from Mexico 🇲🇽🤝🏻🇮🇳 the future is bright
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Growing up in England, it's amazing to see the differences between what we're taught in school about the industrial revolution and the shocking reality of where the money and raw materials came from.
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Its crazy that Indians are still alive and thriving. For every Indian alive it is crazy to think what their forefathers had to go through for it to be possible for them to be alive.
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I cried watching this, my grandfather was born during colonial rule and told me how as a kid he experienced extreme impoverishment, his father(my grandpa) was a weaver and because of the brits he left weaving(because he was trapped in debt and it took everything to repay it)and became a cultivator, they had to pay exorbitantly high taxes and at one time they had to sell all jewelleries and valuables they had to pay taxes, entire gangetic plain region became the poorest region of India after goras left it.
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The famine was a result of the British forcing Indian farmers to grow cash crops such as hemp, cotton tobacco indigo ink tea and so and not edible food crops. The lack of food crop production was a result of the heavy handed taxation. Farmers could not generate enough revenue by selling food crops and had to cultivate cash crops to pay the draconian taxes.
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And when Churchill was informed about the devastation of the famine, his one comment was : " How come Gandhi is not dead yet?" He wrote this in the margins of the report on the famine. Excellent report. Thank you.
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Fun Fact: British left India kinda "willingly" because India no longer had any value and War struck Britain was losing more on it.
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As an Indian who's forefathers were brought to South Africa by the British in 1860 to work on the sugar cane Fields this truly makes me sad, angry and all other emotion's
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It's brutal. The French also forced Vietnamese farmers to grow cash crops, which led to a shortage of food and the deaths of an estimated 2 million people.
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It's heartbreaking to see my country was robbed for centuries like this
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Geuinly hope India can recover and become even richer than before, I'm british and have known quite a few Indian people they are kind and don't hold a grudge which i appreciate, big respect to there country!
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The Hindus and Sikhs have endured and persevered so much.
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This channel know more about India than most Indians. Its monumental suffering endured by our people at the hands of British
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Philippines will always be a friend with India ❤️ 🇵🇭🇮🇳
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F.J. Shore who died at the age of 37 was one of the brave voices of the East India Company who was openly critical of the company Raj. He published under the pen name “A friend to India” in the India gazettte in my original hometown of Calcutta (now Kolkata).
