– Even God couldn’t trust the English in the dark

  Every colony no matter what the circumstances are, they had never been a reported argument that has not suffered lack of human rights during the colonial rule. Even after that, especially in the case of India, they were forced to fight for Britain in World War I. Shashi Tharoor quantified the post-war effect by stating the horrifying facts of the war.   One sixth of all British force were Indian. 54,000 Indians lost their lives. 65,000 were wounded. No information on other 4,000 Indians. At that time, the Indians had to generate the tax amount of 100 million pounds to satisfy the war needs of their rulers. 1.3 million Personnel served in the war which wasn’t even there war.   With all the knowledge of accounting and Mathematics, the amount that Britain owes India for both the wars came out to be in billion pounds (of today’s time), of which not a single dime has been paid.   Not only that, even the railways and roads developed was not meant for the people living in that particular country, but for those strangers who just wanted a means to transport their goods from ports to the industries. The colonial power has argued that if not for them, these colonies would never have enjoyed the emerging technologies. Shashi Tharoor replied brilliantly to that by saying, “Many countries have built railways and roads without having had to be colonized.”   There was an argument that the Britain has given aid to India. To that Tharoor said that the aid given is 0.04% of India’s GDP. The nation itself invests more than the given aid on the fertilizer subsidies.