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Parihaka, Ray
Imperialism, I think most people would agree that we tend to associate with the West, exclusively, -, and on that line of thinking, can we not make a very credible case that imperialism, especially Western Imperialism, was a net positive, especially in the case of India?
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Ray is FAR better qualified to answer this than me but to generalise: A net positive? no.
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Were Indians really the "slaves" of the English?
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Certainly by the later stages, yes
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"There is no democracy per se."
Yes, but doesn't the author have a valid point that imperialism brought with it the emancipation of the "natives" - for instance, when in the entire history of India did there were exist ideas of human liberation as forceful as those brought by Western imperialism??
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The ideas can be transfered without military conquest. I think???
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The cross-infection of ideas is something that many regimes try to prevent. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a time when ideas crossed boundaries without militarism, maybe the renaissance?
Today 02:05 PM
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"The assets of the vassal state goes to the conquering nation."
Especially with relation to INdia, this is most definitely not true, the English continued to run deficits with India
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I would be amazed if Britain did not have a net benefit from the conquest of India