“If the history of British rule in India were to be condensed into a single fact, it is this: there was no increase in India’s per capita income from 1757 to 1947.”
― Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
― Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
“After all, in the final analysis, man is a cause.”
― Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
― Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
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