Will we thrive?
Or end-up like the ancient Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Babylonian or Persian: Limited to comics, museums & movies, but not a living culture?
Feb 18 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
It starts with economic destruction. India's share of global GDP fell from mid-30%s to 2% from 1500s to 1900s Except for the administrative, land-owners, and British army class everyone else was decimated.
From a land of plenty it became a land of famines, illiterates. 1/
The abject poverty & destruction of indigenous educational system, its diversity was ripe was exploitation.
In 1800s British systematically dehumanized native institutions to justify their pillage
Indians lost control of narrative about who they are, where they came from /2
Jan 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
@divya_16_ The British started the effort to create divisions among Indian sects. Their first attempt was on translating the Guru Granth Sahib (again) in a manner which creates separateness between Hindus/Sikhs
1/@divya_16_ Another aspect was giving the Sikhs a martial status with increased enrollment in the British Army. This encouraged many Hindus to make their 1st born a Sikh
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