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Indian Rebellion 1857
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 14, 2020, 12:18 am
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Our enemies write about our heroism:
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[quote]No other colonial disaster equaled the fever-pitch
intensity among the public than that conjured by the Indian
Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Charles Dickens, a man not known for his
support of British imperialism, was also swept up in the fervor.
In a letter to a friend composed in October 1857, Dickens wrote:
I wish I were Commander in Chief in India. The first thing I
would do to strike that Oriental race with amazement . . .
should be to proclaim to them . . . that I considered my holding
of that appointment by the leave of God, to mean that I should
do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the
late cruelties rested; and that I was there . . . to blot it out
of mankind and raze it off the face of the earth. [2]
Well, I’ve always thought his tone betrayed some amount of
admiration for Madame DeFarge, who dominated every page into
which he wrote her. But Dickens was far from alone in calling
for an updated Requerimiento. Neither were responses to the
Mutiny confined to Britain, but Americans also worried about the
debacle. South Carolinian Mary Chestnut shivered when she
observed that “their [Indian] faces were like so many of the
same sort at home.” [3] The revolt of nonwhites against whites
on the far side of the world stoked southern fears of a black
slave revolt unleashing similar horrors in their own corner of
the world. [4]
...
On the morning of May 12, 1857, a dispatch from Meerut arrived
for Captain Henry Parlett-Bishop of a Bengal artillery unit. His
diary entry for that morning was terse and unnerved: “heard . .
. by runner (telegraph wires having been cut) that serious
disturbances had taken place, collision between sepoys and
European officers, in which several of the latter had been
killed.” [7] Indeed, the sepoys at Meerut had murdered their
British commanders during the night and then marched to Delhi,
seat of the diminished Mughal Empire. There, they joined other
comrades in that city and proclaimed the Mughal Emperor,
Bahādur Shah II, restored to power. With a base of
operations in place, the local mutiny became a popular revolt in
which the Emperor’s sons, including the infamous Nana Sahib
Peshwa; lesser Indian aristocrats, frustrated at British seizure
of their lands and rents; and peasants, who resented British
reforms that threatened their traditional lifestyles—all rose up
in a conflagration engulfing much of the north and central
states. The British officially had a crisis on their hands. How
had it come to this?
...
imperialism summoned the best of the enterprising individualism
that stoked Europeans’ desire for glory and wealth. This, paired
with a collective spirit issuing from the “strong gods” of
monarchy, nation, and church, bolstered individual efforts with
purpose. [8] These two forces made the age of exploration and
colonialism/imperialism, from the end of the medieval era in
1492 through the age of industrial modernization up to 1914, the
most astounding half-millennia of imperial success since that of
ancient Rome. [9] By the mid-nineteenth century, the British
Empire in particular had made global conquest an obsession. In
1857 Britannia’s possessions spanned six continents—but the
jewel of her empire was India.
...
Before the 1857 Mutiny, the British government did not directly
rule India, but operations in the Subcontinent were carried out
through the British East India Company (EIC), an entity that
began as an ostensibly private enterprise funded by British
shareholders (the government would eventually buy large shares
of the Company). Its most important investment was in the Indian
spice trade. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
Britain found itself in competition with other European traders,
who also wished to increase their economic footprint in India.
The Seven Years War (1756-1763), fought principally by the
British, Prussians, and their allies against the French,
Austrians, and their allies, was a world war. Its outcome thus
had similarly wide-ranging consequences, one of them being the
strengthening of the British presence in India at the expense of
other Western powers.
...
For many Britons, India was a huge rehab facility. Third sons or
disgraced army officers could get away from their countrymen and
either redeem themselves through colonial service or set
themselves up in a place where they could be admired as bigshots
in a way that would have been impossible had they stayed home.
General Charles Cornwallis enjoyed a second and illustrious
career as a governor-general in India after his embarrassment at
Yorktown. He was responsible for winning the Third Anglo-Mysore
War in 1792 against the Mysorean ruler, Tipu “Tiger” Sultan.
Tipu was himself a fascinating man and one who loved to collect
European literature and art. He filled whole rooms of his palace
with “mirrors, clocks, telescopes, and porcelain” from the West.
[10][/quote]
He deserved to lose, then. (Did his collection include Dickens
fiction, I wonder?)
[quote]The Mutiny and Its Aftermath
By June of 1857, the mutineers had ensconced themselves in Delhi
and were sending riders out to the surrounding area, stirring up
unrest. A number of Indian aristocrats and their tenants
throughout the north joined the tumult. Fear plagued the whites
in the British army. In a letter dated June 6, 1857 in the town
of Lucknow, Lieutenant Octavius L. Smith asked his mother to
pardon his writing, and
If [it] is illegible my descriptions wild and the least bit
disconnected and my letter otherwise a failure you must
attribute it to the ‘Mutiny’ and its effects . . . News has just
come in . . . that a plot was overheard concocted . . . to
murder all the officers in the Native Regts tonight . . . We all
have pistols, some revolvers, others horse pistols . . . [12]
Smith and the other white officers no doubt barred their doors
that night. If sleep came at all, they captured it fitfully in
their beds, pistols clutched to their chests.
The British and their loyal Indian soldiers recaptured Delhi,
then deposed the Emperor. But by that time, Nana Sahib’s
followers were on the move, and in June they and defecting
sepoys laid siege to the compound at Cawnpore. Outnumbered and
with little hope of deliverance, General Hugh Wheeler agreed to
surrender his position in return for the safe passage of his
troops, along with their wives and children. This decision
turned out to be a fatal mistake and one mirroring the Fort
William Henry Massacre that took place almost exactly one
hundred years before, during the French and Indian War (the
North American theater of the Seven Years War). As the British
and their Indian allies left the compound in preparation to
cross the Ganges River, sepoys descended on them from all
directions. Others attacked the wounded men lagging behind the
train with swords and kukris (Indian machetes). After the
killing began to slow, cavalrymen rode into the water to finish
off any of the men left alive. Only four of those men managed to
escape. The two hundred surviving British women and children
were then herded back to Cawnpore as hostages.
These prisoners languished for over two weeks in a small
building that facilitated the spread of deadly bouts of cholera
and other diseases—until Nana Sahib received word that British
troops would soon arrive and likely force him out. What happened
next is still the subject of debate, but according to most
contemporary accounts, Nana Sahib decided that his hostages had
to be gotten rid of. [13] So, he ordered the sepoys under his
command to kill all of the women and children. When they refused
this order, Nana Sahib supposedly found local butchers to
complete the task. In a scene from hell, the hired killers went
about their bloody work for some hours and hacked the two
hundred civilians to pieces with their knives and cleavers. They
then shoved the victims’ remains down a well. Some were still
alive when they found themselves thrown in and buried beneath
their dead and mutilated loved ones. Readers may gasp at this
graphic depiction, but I’m downplaying it.
After the British retook Cawnpore in mid-July, they discovered
the brutal scene and its ghastly well of horrors. Overcome with
tears of shock, then revulsion—and, finally, a hatred lacking
words to describe it, the British changed their tactics. No
longer would they fight a war of recovery, but a war of
retribution. Reprisals within Cawnpore were terrible. The
British rounded up those they believed responsible for (or at
least not conclusively innocent of) the massacres. Some unlucky
Indians were compelled to lick the blood from the floors and
walls where the murdered whites had been chopped to pieces by
their countrymen. Others found themselves forced to eat raw pig
and cow meat while they submitted to whippings doled out by
low-caste servants. Only after enduring these humiliations were
they hanged.
After Cawnpore, the theater of war shifted to the embattled city
of Lucknow, besieged by the mutineers. From the beginning of
June to mid-November 1857, the men and women trapped in Lucknow
suffered torments, both emotional and physical in nature.
Disease and malnutrition decimated whites and Indians alike.
Katherine Bartrum, the wife of an army surgeon, wrote in June of
her household of refugees, “We received letters from our
husbands telling of their escape from Gonda . . . [and] grateful
were we, to think that they had . . . been preserved,” and “we
began to hope that . . . we might meet them again.” By July,
several members of her group had died, and an anguished
Katherine confessed that “Everyone is getting dispirited; no
news of relief; they say we are forgotten & that re-inforcements
will never appear.” Her account read like a roller-coaster of
emotions, one day joyfully recording the news that rescuers were
coming, and the next, despondently admitting in her diary that
celebration had been premature. Finally, on November 17, she
dashed off the hurried line: “Heard we are to leave Lucknow
tomorrow night with just what we can carry . . .” [14]
By the end of 1857, EIC forces had retaken control of most
military forts and towns. Their harsh policies included wiping
out and burning whole villages, striking fear into rebel hearts
and crushing their morale. Though irregular fighting continued
into early 1858, it was by then a mopping-up campaign. A treaty
in July of that year officially ended hostilities. Rebel leaders
and Indians convicted of war crimes stared quite literally down
the barrel of British vengeance. The army arranged for a
dramatic spectacle of mass executions that India would not soon
forget. Artillerymen strapped those guilty individuals to the
mouths of cannons, then lit the fuses. Nana Sahib had meanwhile
disappeared, never to be heard from again—at least not by the
British. I would hazard a guess that he fled north to Nepal or
Afghanistan, a favored spot for hunted men. That, or he was
killed and left to rot anonymously in the dust.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
[quote]Dickens said more than he knew in that intemperate letter
when he spoke about “extermination,” and revealed more about
human tribalism than he meant, when he fantasized about “razing”
the “Orientals” “off the face of the earth.”
There is nothing nice about it, but the Mutiny proved what has
always seemed to be the case when two (or more) vastly different
groups have occupied the same territory. The people belonging to
the one will think of those belonging to the other and say to
themselves, sometimes wistfully and sometimes wrathfully, “how
much better it all would be—if only they were gone.”[/quote]
Hence:
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Re: Indian Rebellion 1857
By: rp Date: September 14, 2020, 12:54 am
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"not conciously innocent of"
Guilty until proven innocent, if you are "non-White".
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Economic Colonialism
By: rp Date: October 21, 2020, 3:54 am
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Indian retailers protest Amazon's entry into India, allege
"foreign economic terrorism":
HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/india-residents-protest-amazon-1-billion-investment-2020-1
[quote]Sumit Agarwal of the Confederation of All India Traders
said on Twitter that Bezos "runs an organisation that expertises
in predatory & anticompetitive business." The confederation has
described Bezos as an "economic terrorist."
[/quote]
[quote]Protesters held signs that said "Jeff Bezos go back!" and
"Second version of East India Company," a reference to the
British company that colonized India, parts of Southeast Asia,
and Hong Kong. The theme echoed Agarwal's comment that companies
like Amazon are "foreign economic terrorists &
invaders."[/quote]
I am on-board with the protests, but please refrain from using
western terms such as "anticompetitive". It is precisely
competition that led to this very predicament! Competition to
increase market share!
The root of the problem is, of course, capitalism, which, by
causing all exchange of goods and services to be purely monetary
and thus sold for profit rather than remuneration for the labor
cost required to produced the good, incentivizes those with a
large amount of capital to undercut prices as they can increase
their profit margins, and therefore rewards individuals such as
Bezos and those of his ilk (Jews) who are most efficient at this
process.
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India
By: rp Date: March 20, 2021, 11:04 pm
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HTML https://youtu.be/h8Ers8gw_W4
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Re: India
By: rp Date: March 20, 2021, 11:09 pm
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Kehinde Andrews vs Piers Morgan on Churchill:
HTML https://youtu.be/eoP4KuKOIuM
Andrews is the guy covered here:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/other/when-history-is-written-by-leftists/
I love the way Andrews just rolls his eyes and groans when asked
by Morgan if does not matter to him that Churchill defeated the
"Nazis".
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Re: India
By: guest5 Date: April 6, 2021, 1:39 am
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Apparently the British crown jewel was stolen from an Indian boy
in the 19th century....
India’s colonial history
[quote]In the year 1700, India was worth a staggering 21
trillion dollars by today’s standards. Its economy was so large
and so powerful that is was bigger than all of Western Europe’s
combined. 250 years later, India was one of the poorest
countries in the world. So what went wrong?
#colonisation[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_gSRlgwMLs
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Re: Indian Rebellion 1857
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 23, 2021, 3:42 am
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
See also:
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg5689/#msg5689
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Re: Indian Rebellion 1857
By: rp Date: April 25, 2021, 11:07 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/Dauhshanti/status/1376737628595228674?s=20
[quote]A British officer from Anjengo factory in 18th century
Travancore nearly lost his life for overlooking at a temple out
of his curiosity & saw a Nair lady. The local Nairs chased him
and almost lynched him until he ran & hid himself in a village
under moplahs
@acccuuuuu
[img]
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[/quote]
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Re: Economic Colonialism
By: acc9 Date: October 3, 2021, 7:59 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jGPf764d0
[quote]There is a misguided idea that India should be grateful
for the democracy, law and trains that the British Empire
brought to their country. But along with these ‘gifts’, Britain
also stole $45 trillion from India during its long and
oppressive rule, which culminated in the biggest mass migration
in human history during the Partition of India and Pakistan.
And those beloved trains? They became the sites of mass
slaughter as violent clashes occurred when over four million
people were uprooted from their homes and forced to trek to a
Muslim-majority Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India. VICE World
News host Zing Tsjeng reveals exactly why India shouldn’t be
grateful for their trains.
[/quote]
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Re: Indian Rebellion 1857
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 3, 2021, 9:14 pm
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The Empires of Dirt series is really good! I am going to post
other videos from the series in appropriate topics around the
forum now!
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