My article on colonial statues, how India dealt with them after independence, and why one of them ended up in a garden outside Cambridge. Out now in the July issue of
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@edanderson101
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Hello Edward (if I may). In the late 1980s I was wandering the grounds of the Victoria Monument in Calcutta and came across a statue of (wait for it) Robert Clive! Would you happen to know anything about this odd situation?
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@edanderson101
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Why don't you ensure all the statues, jewellery including the world famous Kohinoor Diamond is rightfully returned back to India?
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@edanderson101
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Come visit Bangalore...
U get to eat best Idli and can see Queen standing tall...at Queen's Circle...apart from other colonists...
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@edanderson101
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Oi
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how do I read this piece without subscribing to you?
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@edanderson101
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You have to read the short story Lawley Road written by RK Narayan. Also can you post a copy of this article, its hiding behind the paywall desperate for attention.
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@edanderson101
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Can I ask whether Utsa Patnaik's Columbia paper of how the EIC and the UK got money and gold out of India covertly is accepted by historians? not the trillions of compensation, just what was done on the ground and how documented. Chandran from London and Kerala and Idlophile
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@mike18991
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You're right. EIC was founded in 1600 but didn't reach India until eight years later (and Calcutta became a base from the late-17th century). The confusion slipped in due to the removal of a reference to the 17th century to try and simplify the prose. Thanks for pointing it out.
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