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Post by Rishi Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:24 pm

Justice Katju is merely happy to note India’s prosperity before the British arrived and that “its share in world trade in 1700 was about 30 per cent”. But the historians of the Mughal empire would tell us that the magnificence and splendour of the empire was built by a tiny, rapacious ruling class who sucked the last drop of blood from the vast peasant mas­ses who lived in abject poverty. And this story can be found time and again in the previous ages as well.

Instead of recognising that exploitation based on class and caste have been part of what is now known as India for centuries, Katju simplistically traces the decline of the nation and most of the present ills to the arrival of the British (“up to 1857 communalism was almost non-existent in India”). When Katju laments: “Superstition is rampant in India.... And it is not just the illiterates who believe in it, it is also most of the so-called educated people in India”, the historian Jadunath Sarkar writes of the reign of Aurangzeb—much before the formal colonisation of India by the British—“All classes alike were sunk in the densest superstition. Astrology governed every act of life among rich and poor alike!”

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?287695

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