C P Brown: British Legacy

12. THE LEGACY OF BRITISH VALUE SYSTEM

As you sow, so you Reap.

We have seen India and Briton over the ages and the Andhras in that picture. We have also seen how the clash of civilisations resulted in turmoil, after the advent of colonialism, a new type of war, is on now -a Psy war. A number of civilisations have been wiped out either by force or through modifications beyond reasonable recognition when two groups of peoples come together and clashes ensue.

A divine experiment seems to have been started by Iswara, from 1800 A.D. with Asuric human beings arriving on this sacred soil of the Indo Gangetic plain. As always Indians watched without a violent reaction in the beginning, reacted with the maximum force later, and got back into a stable mode. The war seems to have ended in 1947. But the peace now is worse than an open war. They call it political, but this is anything but political. This is locking together of two forces, hiding behind masks, a fight to finish – the Western Colonial values through so-called secularists and the Indian HINDU Culture of Sanatana Dharma.

The motives, value systems of the incoming mass of human waves from England, which are now entrenched as secularists, are to be seen to know where we will end up.

A typical British Soldier in 1800 - A captain in garrison requires about thirty servants. Cost monthly 113 rupees .In the field he will want thirty porters (koolees), more.
" Cadets are boys of sixteen and seventeen, and most of them raw from school". As cadets arrived, palankeens were supplied to carry them off, from the taverns, and other temptations of the metropolis.

Kicking and abusing one's wife, was a military crime, and tried by court martial.
On the 6th June 1814 Captain Charles White, of the 66th Foot, was indicted "for conduct, in shamefully abusing, cruelly beating, kicking and ill using his wife, & c.
Cornwallis Army. “…Very inferior quality especially as regards the 6,000 Europeans of the Company’s army, the riff-raff of the London streets and the gleanings of the jails, officered by ruined youths or greedy seekers for money”. (A Constitutional history of India by A.B. Keith; 1937 edition; Page – 104).

Page 8: the brethren of the English merchant were the Africans whom he kidnapped for slavery in America, or the American Indians whom he stripped of their lands, or the Indian craftsmen from whom he bought muslins and silks at starvation prices.

Page 10: “The merchants were now rulers. Thus, being ‘favourably placed in relation to the individual producer, , to dictate terms favourably to himself’, the company was now ‘able to throw the sword into the scales to secure a bargain which abandoned all pretence of equality of exchange.’
Page 10: The policy of the Company was established to extract from the Indian producers as much as possible, and to give them in return nothing…” (The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by Ramkrishna Mukherjee, Berlin, 1958. Page – 301).

Page 11: “The conduct of the company’s servants, …… furnishes one of the most remarkable instances upon record, of the power of interest to extinguish all sense of justice, and even of shame”.

Page 12: “At Tranquebar, H. Meyer, Esq., aged sixty-four, to Miss Casina Couperas, a young lady of sixteen, after a courtship of five years”. (Late 18th Century notice in Bombay newspaper as quoted by Hilton Brown in ‘The Sahibs’, London, 1948. Page – 146).

Page 13. Drunkenness, gambling and profane swearing were almost universally practised. The public journals testify to the absence of “decency and propriety of behaviour” in social life”.
Page 13. “Nearly all the unmarried Europeans – lived in acknowledged concubinage with native women.

Page 14. “The chaplains who had been sent out in the latter part of the eighteenth century were, with few exceptions, men who, if they did not disgrace their religion by their immorality, degraded it by the worldliness of their lives.

Page 14. One chaplain, Mr. Blanshard, after a service of little more than twenty years, carried home a fortune of 50,000 pounds;( 25crores of rupees in today’s value) that another, Mr. Johnson, after thirteen years’ service, took with him from Calcutta 35,000 pounds,( 17.5crores of Rs); and that a third, Mr. Owen, at the end of ten years, had amassed 25,000” pounds,( 12.5crores of Rs). (Lives of Indian Officers by Sir J.W. Kaye. London, 1904 Page – 499)

Page 15. ‘Some account of our wicked chaplains. Out of nine (the full complement), four are grossly immoral characters, and two more have neither religion nor learning’. (Ibidem. Page – 500)

Page 17. “The generality of Europeans in Calcutta kept slave boys. Slavery was a recognized institution, An advertisement, taken from a Calcutta paper of 1781, shows, the trade was openly carried on even by persons holding holy orders: - “To be sold by private sale; Two Coffee boys, who play remarkably well on the French horn; about eighteen years of age; belonging a Portuguese Padrie lately deceased. For particulars enquire of the Vicar of the Portuguese Church”.

Page 18. “Sir William Jones, in a charge to the Grand Jury at Calcutta, in 1785, described the miseries of slavery in metropolis of British India – “I am assured, hold on my belief, that the condition of slaves within our jurisdiction is, beyond imagination, deplorable; and that cruelties are daily practised on them, chiefly on those of the tenderest age and the weaker sex, which, if it would not give me pain to repeat and you to hear, yet for the honour of human nature I should forbear to particularise… … … … … … … … Hardly a man or woman exists in a corner of this populous town, who hath not at least one slave child either purchased at a trifling price, or saved perhaps from a death that might have been fortunate, for a life that seldom fails of being miserable. Many of you, have seen large boats filled with children, coming down the river for open sale at Calcutta. Nor can you be ignorant that most of them were stolen from their parents, or bought, perhaps, for a measure of rice in a time of scarcity”.
“One hundred and 10 servants to wait upon a family of 4 people. Oh monstrous! And yet we are economists…” (The Sahibs. London, 1948. Page – 211)

Muslims were paragons of virtue compared to the scum.
India was gaining back its peace after lots of wars with the Muslims, who were not as cultureless, as crude, and as valueless as these hordes. In their own way, Samarkhand, Bokhara, Tashkent, Baghdad, before and after Islam were also repositories of ancient cultures. Going to pre Islamic Middle East, after all Buddhism and may be Hinduism were spreading culture in those lands.

Masks supplied by Eugene O’Neil
In a short time the white sahibs changed their faces, some wore masks of intellectuality and mingled with our society as earnest students, reformers, philosophers, manuscript gatherers, pundits etc. and stabbed the nation in the back. Created a lot of Brown sahibs and left with the loot.

Now the war is on with the masked colonialist continuing his presence in India with much more sophisticated IT, and Media bought for a consideration, masqua radians as a secularist.