British India Quotes

“If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group of men to distrust someone for no reason other than that he was one of them?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“With the absorption of each native state, the (East India) company official John Sullivan observed in 1840s: "The little court disappears--the capital decays--trade languishes--the capital decays--the people are impoverished--the Englishman flourishes, and acts like a sponge, drawing up riches from the banks of the Ganges, and squeezing them down upon the banks of the Thames.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“हमारी जीवन शैली, आज तक अंग्रेजों से प्रभावित हैं ।
अंग्रेजों ने सूर्योदय के देश को सूर्यास्त का उत्सव मनाने वाले देश में तब्दील कर दिया ।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“Writing fiction is a respectable way of fibbing for a living—and enjoying it!
-Anne George”
― Anne George, Love and Mutiny: Tales from British India

“India has never cost England one centime. it paid back What it cost. India provides a livelihood for all benjamins of English families.”
― Leopold II

“A commentator had correctly stated that Queen Victoria was essentially a drug lord; like a turbo-charged Dawood Ibrahim with a better headdress.”
― Amish Tripathi, Immortal India: Articles and Speeches by Amish

“I made the point that they are doing in Kashmir what the British did in India. You should check out their posts about how the British developed India for their own gain not India. It’s like they have a mental block and can’t see they are making the point about the British that I am making about India.”
― Sheikh Gulzar-Kashmir dispute