Raghu

Shashi Tharoor suffers from a quaint dissonance. He thrashes the British Colonial rule for its cruelty - true enough, but for that he dissembles/excuses, the sheer malice of Mughals and venal incompetence of Congress, the 2 rules which bracket the British, in Indian History. Take for example this, "The Congress MP appearing on national channel ABC’s Question and Answer on September 04, 2017, described at length how India’s textiles, dominated mostly by Muslims, were systematically destroyed by the British. “The British came to one of the richest countries in the world when the GDP was almost 27% in the 17th century, 23% in the18th. But, over 200 years of exploitation, loot and destruction reduced India to a poster child for third world poverty”, he said in reply to a question about the British rule in India." I presume he is quoting Angus Maddison's research on GDP. Then let's look at the GDP % prior to Mughals taking 1500-1700 as the Mughal era, the GDP % was evidently higher prior to the Mughals, it was even higher prior the Muslim Sultanates. Indian fell behind China for the first time, during Mughal time. So why excuse the Muslims/Mughals? And then let's look at 1950-2003, the Congress era. India and China started out at the same stage. Compare the change achieved by China and by India. So why defend the Congress and be a member? Mughals and Congress, appear to be better, only when compared to the disaster of Colonialism. Not much of a credit, is it? And that too only in terms of GDP. There was a different cost which was extorted from the civilization by the Muslim marauders and Congress Kleptocrats - in terms of culture, heritage and lives. The argument that while Muslims looted and massacred, they did not send the loot outside of the country, so they are better than British, that is as pathetic an excuse, as the British saying, yes we looted and massacred India, but gave cricket and railways. Also remember, India had to pay with 2 huge pieces of herself, broken and severed, due to the Muslims. Of course the second looter, aided the first looter in that. So that is the cost India had to pay for Muslims, much more than the British loot. And the remaining India is still paying the descendants of both the looters, in terms of social-political-cultural benefits.
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