After watching the YouTube video clip “Partition The Day India burned” I was negatively surprised how bloody the partition of India really was. Since the end of World War I…
Who is to blame? India’s divison as a question of perspective
With the ending of the first WW the desire of Indian Independence arouse. Indian nationalists thought it to be only a question of time, in total opposite to the Britons! They would have never thought one of their most important colonies to become an independent…
When we talk about the British Empire nowadays we mainly see it as the big exploiter that caused much pain and suffering. Just as we watched a video sequence about the Amritsar Massacre I started wondering whether there would also be a positive side to the British…
With his non-violent revolution Gandhi played a major role in India’s struggle for independence and the fact that people are calling him “The Father of the Nation” only seems to confirm his importance and his impact on the development of the Indian country. I couldn’t…
Is Sikh Blood (again) on British Hands?
In 2014 we found out that the British government under Thatcher not only condoned the raid on the Golden Temple in 1984 but lend special support of the SAS to the Indian Government in the time before the raid. This raid which let to the partial destruction of the holy place in Amritsar…
Until today the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan is in continuation. But what is the Kashmir crisis about? And is there a relation to the British Empire? Both countries, India as well as Pakistan, try to claim the region…
