– We paid for our own Oppression

  The scene then shifted to how India was the sole source of the highly paid jobs of the British Civil servants. The undying greed to enjoy the luxury was satisfied by taking the riches of the country, imposing heavy taxes on this land, and securing all that ill-earned or stolen money from the Indians to fill the chest of those in power.   Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed. The colonial power destroyed the source of the energy of the colonies and used it to fulfill their own needs.   The money from the slave economy as pointed by the speaker became the basic source of income of the Victorian families. The condition was such after the slavery was abolished, the compensation of about 20 million pounds was paid to the families who had lost their “properties” and not to those poor souls who had to give everything and lost everything during the time slavery was ongoing.   The powered punch came when Tharoor mentioned that even the Wi-Fi password which is in the honor of Gladstone (William Ewart Gladstone), a liberal politician whose family was benefited from the so called compensation.