Indians and the Chinese

by MulaiAzhagi Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:00 pm

Shibiao looked closely at these people, and they all had faces black as coal. They were wearing a piece of red cloth around their heads like a tall hat; around their waists, they wore a belt holding wood clubs. Shibiao asked the old man: “Are these Indians?” The old man said, “Yes, the English use them as police.” Shibiao asked, “Why do they not use an Indian as the chief of police?” The old man answered: “Who ever heard of that! Indians are people of a lost country; they are no more than slaves.”

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by MulaiAzhagi Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:02 pm

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The Prince of Wales inspects maimed Indian soldiers in 1921. (Photograph by Getty Images, From Outlook 13 August 2012)

by MulaiAzhagi Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:04 pm

The first generation of Chinese leaders and thinkers felt their disgrace—and Indian abasement before the British—much more keenly. India, conquered and then mentally colonised, had also been a cautionary tale for such Muslim activists and thinkers as Jamal al-din al-Afghani. But from the perspective of China, where despite its weaknesses a political-moral order based on Confucianism had endured, India seemed dangerously out of touch with its own cultural heritage. Indian philosophy and literature—which only Brahmans in possession of Sanskrit could read—had been a closed book to a majority of Indians; it was the European discovery, and translation into English and German, of Indian texts that introduced a new Western-educated generation of Indian intellectuals to their own cultural heritage.
As the Chinese saw it, foreigners had ruled the country continuously since the Mughals established their empire in the sixteenth century; there was no native ruling class capable of unifying the country. Musing on the fate of Asia, Liang Qichao identified India as a horror story about a “lost country” that had failed miserably in the international struggle for equality and dignity. “Small capitalists” from Britain had taken over an entire continent by training Indians to be soldiers; Indians enforced British policies at the expense of their own compatriots. For many of Liang’s peers—allies as well as critics—China was in danger of repeating that because her people had developed no sense of a corporate interest or national solidarity—the basis of European power and prosperity.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:07 pm

Let us not forget that before the Foreign Brits, the foreign barbarian muslims ruled India for a 1000 years.

by garam_kuta Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:20 pm

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:Let us not forget that before the Foreign Brits, the foreign barbarian muslims ruled India for a 1000 years.

Before MD pitches in, saami yaar, there is a huge difference - let us not forget that moghuls migrated and settled as migrants in india unlike the brits who never had such intentions at all study

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