The Theft of India: The European Conquests of India, 1498-1765 - Roy Moxham Audiobook
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In the three centuries that followed Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea route from Europe to India, European powers made a beeline for India’s fabled riches, its spices, gold and gems. Though they ostensibly came for trade and commerce, and the thrill of discovering a new land, the lines between exploration and exploitation soon blurred. The Theft of India documents the intense rivalry for spoils that played out between the British, the French, the Dutch and the Portuguese, and the impact this had on the Indians.
Roy Moxham’s work, though, is no dry study of textual materials. He supplements these accounts with an exhaustive study of academic works on the subject. The result is an unflattering picture of the ‘civilized’ West as it systematically strips India of its riches. The Theft of India is a nuanced, important and highly readable addition to the study of imperialism and its dehumanizing effects on the colonized.
Publisher: Storyside IN
Published: 2018-06-19
Length: 7H 27Min
ISBN: 9780430017670
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This post has 35 comments with rating of 3/5
May 2nd, 2020
ebook (ePub format - 370KB)
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May 2nd, 2020
Many thanks for sharing this one.
And welcome back Abee. I have enjoyed many many books that you uploaded on other trackers over the years. Good job man.
May 2nd, 2020
Always noticed how these middle class PC writers never mention the islamic conquests - not a word.
Plenty of writing about the evil west (when its quite possible their own ancestors were a part of it ?)
May 2nd, 2020
Oh get over it.
May 2nd, 2020
These PC writers also fail to mention what a basket case these countries became after independence.
May 2nd, 2020
@Basileus5
A thousand years of continuous Islamic rule made India a united country (Muslims never conquered “India”, they defeated a bunch of warring states and the rest joined in when it became the largest economy in the world amounting to over 22% of world’s wealth. Once Europeans took over (1857), they reduced it to the unenviable status of the poorest country in the world by the time they left (1947) thanks to their relentless plunder and exploitation of India’s people and natural resources.
https://biographyaudio.org/audio-books/inglorious-empire-what-the-british-did-to-india-chapterised-shashi-tharoor/
https://biographyaudio.org/audio-books/an-era-of-darkness-the-british-empire-in-india-shashi-tharoor-2/
May 2nd, 2020
Oh, look at the right-wing nutjobs getting triggered.
May 2nd, 2020
Download is stuck at 76 percent
May 2nd, 2020
Cry me a river.
May 2nd, 2020
They’re welcome to carry on throwing women in a funeral fire and practicing thuggery. Can you conceive an empire under the Russians, Nazis or Japanese? India was left with railways and infrastructure, hospitals, schools and the largest man made irrigation system in the world. Where before there was chaos, rule, order and justice was brought. Never before had there been so much peace. I fancy that you also won’t read about the practice of head hunting by the noble savages in Nagaland either. The empire wasn’t perfect, but it certainly wasn’t entirely evil. The history isn’t black and white, it’s grey. Anyone who imposes the virtues of the 21st C on the past really doesn’t understand it.
May 2nd, 2020
@litote: One of the greatest curses the British empire put upon the peoples it conquered, was to bequeath the multi-party system, swallowed like a poison pill by countries that threw off the colonial yoke (India, Pakistan, and Israel).
It does nothing but create easily fractured coalitions that lead to endless rounds of dissolution and new elections that bring in equally dysfunctional coalitions.
The founding fathers of the United States were wise to not take the bait.
May 3rd, 2020
@ssageo5: Israel only came in to existence after the Brits withdrew from the region, which was never a British colony under a “yoke”. It is the Palestinians who are now the oppressed under foreign the Jewish colonisers.
May 3rd, 2020
@litote: Actually the so-called Palestinian Arabs are genetically so close to the Israelis that there is a significant likelihood that the “Palestinians” might even be just another branch of the tree - perhaps a remnant that stayed behind after the destruction of the 2nd Temple in Jerusalem, who were ultimately forcibly converted by one occupying power or another, and who later took on an ‘identity’ as Palestinian only after Arafat saw Herzel’s playbook and decided to take a page from it.
Sadly, the Palestinian Authority is more corrupt and oppressive to the everyday life of the average Palestinian than the “Jewish colonists” as you refer to it. I wish the Palestinians better governance so that they can use all that amazing creativity they have on better outlets, such as building a better state. You know, like the Israelis did with their own dusty and resource poor patch.
May 3rd, 2020
a.k.a the development of India.
May 3rd, 2020
@ssafe05:
You are correct about the genetic brotherhood between Jews/Palestinians.
You are also correct about the corruption of the Palestinian leadership.
I am also correct about describing the majority of Israelis as Jewish colonists. This has been the case since 1948 with successive waves of foreign Jews taking residence on the lands from which the Palestinians were forcibly dispossessed. Jewish settlements in disputed lands continue to expand.
BTW, Israel may not even still exist where it not for the continued generous financial and military aid from the United States and Israel’s well documented control of water resources to the detriment of the Palestinians and other neighboring Arab states.
May 3rd, 2020
A few of the overlooked benefits from the British Raj that continue to this day:
- Parliamentary democracy
- modern medicine, including the containment of many diseases
- modern agriculture
- rule of law and reduced corruption
- technology ranging from modern transport (trains/planes/automobiles) to communications
- peace and stability
- economic and infrastructural development
- education
May 3rd, 2020
Oh, and the Indians’ obsession with its national sport of cricket also traces to the Raj.
May 3rd, 2020
You have to raise an eyebrow when these PC historians regale the benefits of the Muslim invasion of Spain (not that there were many), yet utterly condemn the European colonisers that completely modernised their backward territories, some of which, like India, where under oppressive foreign rule (the Moghul dynasty).
May 3rd, 2020
@litote:
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
- Monty Python, Life of Brian.
May 3rd, 2020
Regarding “control of water resources” there is a solution on the near horizon. One of the things that desalination requires is abundant energy, which had been a challenge for Israel. With the Leviathan gas field find, that problem is solved, allowing Israel to increase the amount of available fresh water. More available fresh water, combined with Israel’s world leading drip irrigation technology, should allow the Palestinian territories to bloom the way those in Israel have already.
And once the old guard over in the PA passes away, maybe the Palestinians will (hopefully) have some more progressive, forward thinking, leadership that is actually willing to work for the good of the people they ostensibly govern.
May 3rd, 2020
The constant stream of bitterness and sense of grievance you spout on every torrent Litote suggests that you need an outlet for the hate you have trapped inside you. Perhaps counselling could help.
Or going to the park and shouting at pigeons.
May 3rd, 2020
Thank God it was the English. They relieved many parts of India from cruel muslim rulers. One more thing, no one united India, not even the English. India become a single country after 1947. The English sure left behind a Parliament, Judicial system for us to pick up the threads. I guess we did OK.
May 3rd, 2020
@mottai: “India become a single country after 1947″ — sort of, India agreed to leave behind a good chunk of what was nominally India, agreeing to spinning it off into Pakistan as a Muslim homeland.
May 4th, 2020
ssafeo5 - Do you want that area of land to be assimilated in your county?
May 4th, 2020
@bengle_moody: You seem bitter and aggrieved at my dubunking the nonsense behind the bitterness and grievances of PC historians. Taking offense is not an argument.
May 4th, 2020
In defence of the British:
I’m not an anglophile, but let me say my piece.
Take the case of former British colonies - (I have given only a notable few):
1. USA
2. Canada
3. Australia
4. South Africa
5. India
6. West Indies.
7. New Zealand.
All these countries are now vibrant democracies. There were injustice, grievance claimed by the natives and with a good cause, but in the end, the system turned out to be good.
Take the case of Spanish and other European colonies
1. Entire South America (except Brazil)
2. Cuba
3. Mexico.
Except Brazil, which was a colony of Portugal, none of the South American countries are democratic. Coup d’etat, human rights violation is a way of life. I don’t have to go in details about Leopold’s reign of terror in Congo & highhanded administration of German East Africa. All north African countries (except perhaps Egypt) are former French or Spanish colonies. I don’t have to describe them.
Philippines was a former Spanish colony but they came under American yoke for about 100 years before becoming independent. They had some issues but the Govt now is democratically elected.
Let’s talk about India - The British veni, vici an made lot of profits but they brought a good system of governance which we inherited. They DID NOT bring religion or try to convert us. That was tried by Jesuits and other group. The British administration (by which I mean scores of English, Scot, Irish and Welsh) looked on these ‘organisations’ as trouble makers.
My favourite men - Jim Corbett was Irish and Kenneth Anderson was a scot.
In defence of Hinduism : Hinduism is not about buring widows or class system. The burning of widows originated in certain parts of north west India, where when a city was taken, the entire population was put to sword by invading muslim armies. Rather than become sexual slaves some women committed suicide by self immolation. That was the origin which was later exploited by some. It died out in those parts centuries ago (though few decades back, in Rajastan, a widow voluntarily (which I doubt) did it)
In Hinduism women were afforded equal rank, education, job opportunities. In our view it’s not Eve’s fault that Adam has sinned…..
Core of Hinduism ” All creatures, living, animate, inanimate came from a single source” How it evolved into complex organism, structures is due to ‘action’
(or karma)
Enough of my ranting! I will sign off with this Sanskrit verse:-
“Everything is from the Whole;
The visible is from the Whole,
The invisible from the whole.
The Whole remains ever itself even if the entire universe has come out of it”
Suggested reading (from a western point of view);
1. The Wonder That Was India - A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims - by Arthur Llewellyn Basham.
2. Books by the erudite Mr S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar & Mr K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
These books are available in Internet archive, in PDF format.
Let there be light!
Ciao
May 4th, 2020
Replace “theft” with “civilization” and this would be almost accurate.
May 4th, 2020
@mottai: thanks, but no thanks. I think that my country has enough of its own challenges without it needing to assimilate or occupy yet another middle eastern Muslim country.
You’d think that we’d have had enough common sense to learn from how these things always turn out … but no.
May 4th, 2020
@mottai:
“Everything is from the Whole;
The visible is from the Whole,
The invisible from the whole.
The Whole remains ever itself even if the entire universe has come out of it”
… Is remarkably similar in message the Tao Te Ching:
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. (i.e., the Whole spawns the entire universe)
The named is the mother of the ten thousand things. (i.e., all visible)
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. (i.e., perceives the Whole)
Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations. (i.e., all visible)
These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery. (i.e., perceiving the Whole)
May 5th, 2020
When Einstein was asked what he thought about Indian civilization, he said, “It would be a good idea!”
May 6th, 2020
@zzl410: It is ironic that Gandhi, whose quote you repurposed, himself gained the benefit of an education at University College London.
May 6th, 2020
“we have no business to seek more from the past
than the very past itself.” Lord Morley.
concentrate on your energies on ” enemies of the free world”.
May 20th, 2020
What do you mean a thousand years of Muslim rule? Need to get your facts straight, the Moghuls were invaders of the Indian subcontinent who came with the sword to plunder and convert the population to Islam. The rise of Sikhism was as a direct response to their Islamist brutality. As for the other invaders their policy was no different. Its amazing the prejudice and ignorance of people extolling the ‘virtues’ of imperialist colonialism still persists. I shall leave it to Lord Macaulay’s address to British parliament on 2nd February 1835 to make you all blush with a little shame for your hypocrisy. He said: “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber that i do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore i propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation”. As for how grateful indians should be for being dispersed around the world as a disaspora I would remind you that the largest volunteer army the world has ever seen came form India in both the first and second world wars - those Indian soldiers lie dead in far off fields for your sake. India did not become free in 1945 but had to wait until 1947 as Churchill did his best to cling onto to it. None of you would accept imperialist domination - look how you cry at European connectivity - but you expect those of the brown skin to be happy with his white master. You’ll be telling me African Americans should be grateful to slavery (including British) because at least now they are in the wets and not living in Africa.
June 24th, 2020
bobs and vagene.
May 22nd, 2022
Thank you kindly
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