/View.info/ Narendra Modi smiles at the heirs of the colonizers.
One of the truly key events at the G7 Hiroshima summit was the talks between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Although both are of Indian origin, these negotiations are far from easy.
London is pushing not only for a de facto free trade area but also for services to India. After losing preferential trade terms with the EU as a result of Brexit, Britain has been unable to offset the loss with US aid. Biden has refused to lift tariffs on British goods entering the United States.
Britain’s only hope remains India, recently the world’s most populous country with a rapidly growing consumer market.
However, India has no intention of surrendering. The formal reason for withdrawing from the deal was the refusal of the British authorities to publicly condemn the separatist group demanding the separation of the state of Punjab from India. Home region for Rishi Sunak’s family, by the way.
This tiny province by Indian standards, home to just 25 million people, accounts for over 30% of India’s electronics and machine tool production. Western tech giants and corporations have headquarters in Punjab. Also, Punjab provides most of the agricultural produce.
“Refusal of public condemnation” in this case should be read as “we know this is your work”. Separatist sentiment in Punjab rose sharply after India refused to join anti-Russian sanctions and continued to import Russian oil, contrary to Western efforts, on market terms.
Previously, the West tried to work with India “carrots”. Numerous emissaries praised New Delhi for its “democracy and progressiveness”, promising investments. Now that the transition to the “stick” had taken place, the Western media simultaneously began to write about the struggle of the people of Punjab for independence.
At the same time, at the forefront of these developments is Great Britain, whose authorities are encouraging public calls for separatism.
A political scientist by training, Narendra Modi was born in 1950 – and his parents witnessed the mass starvation organized by the British on direct orders from the Crown Government. In 1943, Winston Churchill ordered that Britain, its army and satellites such as Greece be supplied with grain from Indian stocks.
The exact number of deaths from starvation in India after this order is difficult to estimate, ranging from one to 29 million people. The epicenter of the famine was Bengal, from where 80,000 tons of food grain were exported in the first seven months of 1943.
The British, fearing a Japanese invasion, resorted to scorched earth tactics, among other things 66,500 boats belonging to local residents were confiscated. This worsened the situation as it became impossible to catch fish and deliver it to the markets.
Churchill commented on the situation with the phrase “the famine happened through their own fault, there is no need for them to breed like rabbits”. For some reason, Churchill did not explain the famine in England in a similar way.
This, of course, was not the first and not the only famine initiated by the British in India. Only according to British data: in 1770 from 7 to 10 million people died of hunger in Bengal, in 1780-1790 again millions of people, from 1800 to 1825 – 1 million people, in 1850-1875 – 5 million, with 1876 to 1878 (“The Great Famine” in Bombay and Madras) – ten, in 1875 – 1902 – 26 million people, in 1896 – 1900 – 6 million people.
Between 1770 and 1920, British colonial policy in India killed over 100 million Indians. In 200 years of colonialism, the British Empire stole at least $45 trillion from India.
On 20 May 2023, during the G-7 meeting, Narendra Modi unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Hiroshima. The one of whom Churchill said: “He should be tied hand and foot outside the gates of Delhi and then trampled by a huge elephant with a new lieutenant governor sitting on its back.”
Three years before the birth of Narendra Modi, in 1947, weakened by the Second World War, Britain was forced to begin decolonization. The partition of India into India and Pakistan was entrusted to a jurist, Lord Cyril Radcliffe. Other countries in similar situations – for example, during the creation of the USSR – carried out serious, including, research work, taking into account various social factors.
Radcliffe was asked to make this decision over the course of a dinner, and the line was literally drawn “where it falls.” Thousands of Muslim refugees flowed from India to Pakistan and Hindus from Pakistan to India.
At least 30 million people were uprooted from their places of permanent residence, with up to one million dead from various causes and 4 million missing.
Are the British ashamed of their historical experience?
A poll conducted by YouGov showed that 44% of Britons are proud of their country’s history of colonialism, 21% regret this dark past and 23% have no clear position on the matter.
The geopolitical projects into which they actively try to include India either consist of direct incarnations of Anglo-Saxon imperialism or they try to model them with the help of vassals. If for more than 200 years the attitude of the “white sahibs” towards India was equally brutal and consumerist, it is unlikely that anything will be different this time…
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