Re: [mukto-mona] Atten: Dr Sukhamaya Bain

Thanks to everyone who commented on my message. Let me talk a bit about a few of Mr. Subimal Chakrabarty's points.   Of course one could not be sure about the course of the history of India over 1757 to now if the Britsh did not have their colonial rule. No one could be sure if all Indians would have been forced to convert to Islam by now. But it can be fairly safely concluded that, the catastrophe of Islamization or not, India would have remained more backward without the British.   Theoretically speaking, "fruitful exchanges are possible and probably more effective if the exchanging partners are on equal footing." The question is who in India were to be on equal footing with the European rulers? The Nawabs, the Brahmans, the Hindus that were superior to some Hindus and inferior to some other Hindus, or the untouchable Hindus? How would a Hindu widow be on equal footing with a British one if the former were to be dead in the funeral pyre of her husband?   In the world today, the Saudi King is on about equal footing with the US President. Subimalda, how many centuries do you think it would take for the average Saudi woman to be one equal footing with the average Saudi man? In the USA, when even an illegal alien gives birth to a child, that child would be a citizen of this country, eligible to become even the President. How long do you think, the average Palestinian brother of the Saudis would have his child be treated in Saudi Arabia on equal footing with the average Saudi child?     You talk about Dwaipayan Vyasa proclaiming "nothing is above man" 2500 years ago. Now, think how slow India progressed looking at the Hindus today.   When you talk about the British stealing all the gold from the Taj Mahal, I have to remind you that the Arabs do have a lot of money and material wealth. But they are destitutes when it comes to the development of their minds. Even the average Mullah of Bangladesh would prefer to make his home in the USA over Saudi Arabia.   Again, my emphasis would be on the human rights and dignity of the average Indian over the material wealth of the kings/nawabs.     Sukhamaya Bain

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