@PriyamvadaGopal on the importance of speaking up against Hindu Fascism and Hindu chauvinism for those who aren't Indian. In Britain a proposal to recognise casteism as a specific form of discrimination was defeated thanks to certain Tory MPs, such as Bob Blackman (Harrow East) Most of the so-called Left in Britain (from Labour to other organisations) refuse to even deal with casteism. In no small part this is because it is endogamous, and they can pretend they can't "see it" like racism (not that they usually have much to say on the latter anyway?

1/n A dreadfully tendentious, ahistorical, and frankly Eurocentric "understanding"of British colonialism in India by the 90 year old Amartya Sen, no doubt relieving the glory days of fustily debating "history" in the 1950s. Some thoughts:

theguardian.com/world/2021/jun… 2/n There has not been a famine in India since the British left (there is, however, a sustained agrarian crisis). This is pretty much the only thing you need to know when it comes to evaluating what the British "did" for India; they starved, looted, and pillaged the subcontinent

1/n Since it's the UK's first ever #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, cheekily re-plugging some articles/posts I wrote about the first South Asian MPs in Parliament. Up first: Dadabhai Naoroji, MP for Finsbury Central (now Islington) from 1892-5 @SAHM_UK globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/naoro… 2/n Naoroji's legacy is his intellectual contributions to the Indian National Congress which he helped create. His "Drain of Wealth" theory - where he meticulously detailed how much money Britain was looting from India - helped dispel myths of the Empire being for India's "good"

1/n I wrote a profile about the fabulous Indian independence leader and scholar Dadabhai Naoroji for @globalsoctheory. His Drain of Wealth theory ended the facile argument that Empire benifitted India by analysing how much money Britain looted annually globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/naoro… 2/n The Grand Old Man of India is probably best known in the UK as being the first Asian MP to be elected to the House of Commons, but his economic analysis was vitally imp. The brilliance was he used the statistical data collated BY THE EMPIRE ITSELF to counter their pablum