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"भूले तो नहीं": In 1860, the ship Truro & Belvedere brought 680 Indian indentured laborers to South Africa, beginning a journey of hardship that has since evolved into a thriving Indian community deeply embedded in South Africa's culture and history today
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The Truro was the first of 384 ships which brought indentured workers from India to South Africa. The last ship to arrive was the “Umlazi 43” in 1911.
"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power": Punkah - the hand operated ceiling fans of Colonial India and a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers extracting constant labor
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Colonial rulers created a cruel regime to keep their workers awake as they slept
"What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture": New Research shows British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years between 1880 to 1920, report notes 'this is more than WW1 and WW2 including the Nazi holocaust'
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Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined
"An Imperial Story of Conspiracy, Loot and Treachery": Maharaja Ranjit Sing's son Duleep Singh, last king of Sikh empire converted to Christianity, lost 'Kohinoor' to Queen and buried in UK with Christian rites despite the fact that he returned to Sikhism
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Queen persuaded the Maharajah to gift her the Kohi-Noor diamond, the mountain of light. The Queen showered her affection, generosity, and sympathy for the young Maharajah
Queen Victoria to her Viceroy, “Though the Muhammadans’ cow-killing is made the pretext for the agitation, it is in fact, directed against us, who kill far more cows for our army, than the Muhammadans"
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While cow slaughter during the period when Islam was politically a dominant force in India is widely acknowledged, perhaps not enough is known about cow slaughter during the British Raj
Maligning of India by British Raj since the 1800s
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Wilberforce claimed that all nations on which the light of Christianity had not shone were in a state of grossest moral darkness. The nations of India had, from the very earliest times, groaned under the double yoke of political and religious despotism, he said
Theft on a Grand Scale - Britain stole $45 Trillion from India and lied about it. Indian money developed Britain and Other Countries
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As the East India Company’s monopoly broke down, Indian producers were allowed to export their goods directly to other countries. But Britain made sure that the payments for those goods nonetheless ended up in London
Reality of Britishers who tortured, brutalized Indian women and threw them into sexual slavery
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Rights of Indian women were openly abused and the Britishers officially created brothels and called them Chaklas on the pretext of giving economic independence to the poor Indian women. Apparently, only 12-15 Indian women served an entire regiment of 1000 British soldiers
Winston Churchill's hate for Indians caused millions of deaths: A villainous supremacist
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Churchill often made disparaging comments about Indians, particularly in private conversation. At one point, he explicitly told his Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery, that he "hated Indians" and considered them "a beastly people with a beastly religion"
Jallianwala Bagh massacre by Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer: Here's what happened 102 years ago
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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: On April 13, 1919, innocent men, women and children died after Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, ordered forces to fire