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“Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due!
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.”
― Tennyson: Poems
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.”
― Tennyson: Poems

“... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?”
― Snowfed Waters
― Snowfed Waters

“The heinous misdeeds committed by the empire are no longer privy to debate. It's a known fact, at least to people with some basic brains... Imagine me coming to your home and then declaring myself the guardian of the house while helping myself with all your resources and keeping you as underling - you know, like the pilgrims did to the native Americans. Sucks right! Exactly my point!”
― Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
― Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Writing fiction is a respectable way of fibbing for a living—and enjoying it!
-Anne George”
― Love and Mutiny: Tales from British India
-Anne George”
― Love and Mutiny: Tales from British India
“If we are following the same colonial systems and procedures
in Free India, are we not actually idealizing the colonial rule?”
― Let's Transform India - First Things First
in Free India, are we not actually idealizing the colonial rule?”
― Let's Transform India - First Things First

“The military is Pakistan’s only institution inherited from the British Raj that has proved resilient and effective. ‘As the history of law, democracy, administration and education in Pakistan demonstrates, other British institutions in what is now Pakistan (and to a lesser extent India as well) failed to take root, failed to work, or have been transformed in ways that their authors would scarcely have recognized.”
― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
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