nowadays,as Islam and Christianity clash, honest study of the White Mughals of India gives reason for hopeFor better or for worse, and the British empire was the most important thing the British ever did. It altered the course of history across the globe and shaped the contemporary world. It also led to the huge enrichment of Britain,just as, conversely, and it led to the impoverishment of much of the rest of the non-European world. India and China,which until then had dominated global manufacturing, were two of the biggest losers in this story, and along with hundreds of thousands of enslaved sub-Saharan Africans sent off on the middle passage to work in the plantations.
Yet much of the story of the empire is still absent from our history curriculum. My children learned the Tudors and the Nazis over and over again in history course but never came across a whiff of Indian or Caribbean history. This means that they,like most people who go through the British education system, are wholly ill equipped to judge either the favorable or the deplorable in what we did to the rest of the world.
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Source: theguardian.com