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I agree with you, but come on, as an Indian wouldn't you LOVE to own the Dutch East India company? I also think reverse colonialism played a huge part in Tata's purchase of Land Rover and Jaguar.

"Turnabout is fair play" as they say - I'm sure there are a bunch of Indians who would love to get a hold of "prized" British assets. It's an ego thing.

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Yeah right. 'The holocaust also had a huge role to play in Jews getting their homeland'. What British colonialism did to Indians was nothing less than the holocaust on creating human misery and deaths. But of course, for people sitting on the other side of the planet reading history through the eyes of the plunderers, British colonialism was benevolent towards Indians in many ways. I can't blame you for that. Winners get to write history and sadly Indians are too busy subsisting, to get their history right at least within their borders.

After considering my initial reaction I realise that the whole problem is that our emotions so stirred up by stupid stuff like this. It'd be better if we forget about the british and get on with building a great nation. Yes I admit I have the same problem. :)

For non indians some context - the media in Indian loves to use the British raj and the political correctness associated with it to gain viewers.

Like eating the bones of your defeated opponents kind-of-a-thing?

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