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“By the early 1800s, India had been reduced from a land of artisans, traders, warriors and merchants, functioning in thriving and complex commercial networks, into an agrarian society of peasants and moneylenders.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“There are no victimless colonial actions: everything the British did echoes down the ages.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“Empire was in many ways the vehicle for the extension of British social structures to the colonies they conquered.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“The British in India were never more than 0.05 per cent of the population. The Empire, in Hobsbawm’s evocative words, was ‘so easily won, so narrowly based, so absurdly easily ruled thanks to the devotion of a few and the passivity of the many.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“Agricultural taxes amounted at a minimum to half the gross produce and often more, leaving the cultivator less food than he needed to support himself and his family; British estimates conceded that taxation was two or three times higher than it had ever been under non-British rule, and unarguably higher than in any other country in the world.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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