The last Mughal Jawaharlal Nehru never ever proudly acknowledged what even some foreigners did so unhesitatingly. So was a reputed American historian and philosopher Will Durant, “British rule in India is the most sordid and criminal exploitation of one nation by another in all recorded history. I propose to show that England has year by year been bleeding India to the point of death…I was horrified. I had not thought it possible that any government could allow its subjects to sink to such misery…The civilization that was destroyed by British guns…has produced saints from Buddha to Gandhi; philosophy from the Vedas to Schopenhauer and Bergson, Thoreau and Keyserling, who take their lead and acknowledge their derivation from India. The more I read the more I was filled with astonishment and indignation at the apparently conscious and deliberate bleeding of India by England throughout a hundred and fifty years. English buccaneers were armed with the latest European artillery and mortars to defeat the petty princes. It was the wealth of 18th century India which attracted the commercial pirates of England and France. This wealth was created by the Hindus vast and varied industries and trade. It was to reach India of fabulous wealth that Columbus sailed the seas. It was this wealth that the East India Company proposed to appropriate…I began to feel that I had come upon the greatest crime in all history…”
Count Keyserling was much more forthright, “…has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of and the absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy…” Similar were remarks by Rajni Palme Dutt and Edmund Burke too. Rajeev Srinivasan commented sardonically, “A strong case has been made by William Digby quoting Brooks Adams that the Industrial Revolution (Circa 1760) could not have happened in Britain had it not been for the loot that came in from India. Digby estimated in 1901 that the total amount of treasure extracted from India by the British was 1,000,000,000 pounds-a billion pounds. Considering the looting from 1901 to 1947 and the effects of inflation, this is probably worth a trillion dollars in today’s money. Serious money, indeed. Shouldn’t we ask for some reparation ?” Renowned economist of Columbia University Utsa Patnaik in her essay published in Columbia University Press, said Britain drained out over $45 trillion from India which to date has hampered the country’s ability to come out of poverty.”
Immediately after the forced British exit, the last Mughal Jawaharlal Nehru ought to have prepared a comprehensive estimate of entire treasure in cash and kind plundered from Bharata by those Brit-dacoits and demanded complete repatriation and reparations through Government channels as undertaken by several other countries successfully. However Nehru being an ardent Britain-lover, a defeatist and negativist with no regard for Bharata, didn’t care two hoots about nations looted wealth. He was too much obliged by his British masters to look into their devious eyes and demand even a formal apology, what to speak of reparations. Even German dictator Hitler had to return arts and treasures looted from western countries. In fact the last Mughal Nehru bared his utter absence of conscience when he responded to the issue of repatriation of Kohinoor diamond, “To exploit our good relations with some country to obtain free gifts from it of valuable articles does not seem to be desirable. On the other hand, it does seem to be desirable that foreign museums should have Indian objects of art.”
The last Mughal Nehru did not miss even a single opportunity to humiliate, insult the nation or Hindu-s before the world.
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