![]() ![]() Popular television shows tend to focus only on the romanticized aspects of the Raj. A lot of the popular histories of the British Empire in the last decade or two, by the likes of Niall Ferguson and Lawrence James, have painted it in rosy colours, and this needed to be challenged. There’s been a lot of self-justificatory mythologising in Britain about the colonial era. ![]() ![]() Many Brits are genuinely unaware of the atrocities committed by their ancestors, and live in the blissful illusion that the Empire was some sort of benign blessing for the ignorant natives. As an article this week by the Pakistani writer Moni Mohsin points out in The Guardian, the Brits simply don’t teach their own schoolchildren the truth about their colonial past, so most Britons don’t know how much an apology is needed. Shashi Tharoor: Deliberate historical amnesia. Shashi Tharoor's new book examines the legacy of British rule in India ![]()
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