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Post by Rishi Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:59 pm

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Jawaharlal Nehru organized a group to oppose the
Princely States which he called the States' People's Conference.
The puppet rulers of the States realized that when the "real
rulers" of the country could not stand up to the Congress, what
chance did they have? The British had anyhow drained them of
all power. There was not a single individual among these rulers
with any self respect, or ego. On their part the British knew that
they could squeeze nothing more out of these rulers. The
Secretary of State for India, Amery, was so disillusioned by
these Princes, Rajas and Nawabs that he wrote on 1 October
1943, "It has been a real mistake of ours in the past not to
encourage Indian Princes to marry English wives for a
succession of generations and so breed a more virile type of a
native ruler." His implication was that this race of rulers should
be allowed to become extinct.



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Post by Kris Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:17 pm

I wouldn't be surprised if these chieftains were boinking amery's countrywomen on the side, but marriage would have been a different kettle of fish. Whether Amery " encouraged" them or not, our boys would have had caste considerations and "traditions' to uphold, with rajmatas in the background calling the shots as to which palace they would pick their daughters-in-law from. Amery's ruminations are par for the course, considering the weird racial theories that were in abundance (the brits had some classification called "martial races" which only certain castes met), but the real reason as to why these guys didn't stand up and be counted was they had been mollycoddled far too long by the brits. They simply didn't know they had to fight for what belonged to them.

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Post by ashdoc Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:52 am

'' Virility comes not by marrying englishwomen but by killing goats ''

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