Adnan Rashid – The British Raj #02

			So Christopher Columbus was looking for a route to India, why India, because India was so rich, it
was so powerful. It was the hub of spices and cloth and all sorts of things. It was the richest land
in the world, the Mughals they were weak in one thing and that was they did not have any navy.
		

			So, what changed is the question, how did the British come to power,
		

			the British came to power simply by chance, by chance, it so happened, that there was a vacuum left
for them to fill, and they came and filled the vacuum, they could not in their wildest of dreams,
imagine to rule parts of India, let alone all of India. I will repeat the British merchants, the
British East India, company officers could not imagine ruling parts of India, let alone ruling all
of India.
		

			And they managed to rule all of India, no doubt. So how did this happen? Very quickly, I will
explain that when Orangevale and Gil are mentally passed away in the year 77. His successors could
not hold on to power. This is another topic in itself is a huge topic. You see every single sentence
brothers I will utter today in your presence has a book behind it. I'm not saying I read all those
books. But I'm trying to explain how vast this topic is. How vast the topic of the British rule in
India is how vast the mobile history is, how vast each and every single region. And the history is.
So this is why I'm giving you snippets glimpses in to
		

			these vast histories. So what you will have to do is to go and read books so that you can actually
learn more about this history and teach your children and it is very important for you to for you to
know what happened in India and what you face today in your countries. The reason you're sitting
here in Britain, is because you are economic immigrants, you are economic immigrants, most of your
parents came here to live better lives, whatever that mean, it came from Pakistan, Bangladesh,
India, to live in. And other parts, maybe Egypt and Morocco and Algeria, depending on where you come
from. You came here as economic immigrants, unless you are exceptions, right. And the reason why we
		

			why you sit here is because your countries do not offer you what you find here.
		

			Right? Otherwise, you would be in your countries, you will be living with your relatives, your
uncle's rechargeables, your daddy and your mama, right? You will be sitting with them and have a
bonfire every evening and have you know those charts, you know, in your villages? I don't know if
you've experienced that, right? But you're here because obviously you find this place to be better
economically. His speech suits your needs better.
		

			Now, you're British citizens, you're part, your part and parcel of the of this country, you are
		

			a very integral part of the social fabric of this country. But how did this all start? How did your
countries end up in the state they are in today? Why is there so much corruption?
		

			Why is this so much poverty?
		

			Why are they in the state?
		

			You want to stop?
		

			So, this is a very important point. To understand why you're here today. You need to understand what
happened before you were born. Or before your grandparents were born. What happened? What caused the
circumstances for your parents and your grandparents to come to these countries and start working in
factories, start driving taxis and start delivering pizzas.
		

			And in some cases Alhamdulillah education came you you know mashallah made a good life here. Doctors
engineers. Yeah. Allah forbid politicians. God forbid. Okay, because we don't see any good ones,
unfortunately. Right? Yeah.
		

			Anything else is better inshallah than anything else. Yeah, it's better to do something useful, and
something beneficial for your people then become a source of
		

			a source of embarrassment or embarrassment for your communities. So
		

			that's why it's so important for you to understand the British Raj. So the Mughals declined the
Mughals after Orangevale and gear his descent
		

			could not hold on to power. Within 50 years after his death he dies in 1707 1757. He died in 1707.
In 1757, exactly 50 years later, a battle takes place in Bengal, between the Mughal governor of
Bengal Nawab Siraj $2, a young young man in his early 20s, ruling Bengal, the richest province
province in the world, not only in India, by the way, the richest province in the world. Bengal was
the richest province, economically agriculturally, Ben Gaul was the richest place in the world full
stop period. This is why the British was so interested in it. Ben Gaul was the breadbasket of the
Mughal empire.
		

			When Bengal was lost, the Mughal empire crumbled. It collapsed economically financially, when you do
not have
		

			agriculture or economics behind you. You cannot pay militaries you cannot pay armies. When you
cannot pay armies, soldiers, you cannot run a state. And this is what happened to the Mughals. So
the British had established trading posts in the 17th century, having acquired permission from
Mughal emperors respectively, one after another. It started with the John D. It started with John D
and Mughal emperor Jahangir. So the early British East India Company officers traders got some
permissions to trade at the port of Surah In current day Gujarat, so they established a trading post
in Zurich. They got permissions to trade. Then came Shah Jehan, and orange Xin. So they established
		

			more trading ports in places like Madras, and Calcutta. So there were three main hubs of British
activity as far as trading was concerned. Are you listening to me? You're with me? It's gonna get
far more interesting. Inshallah we're coming to the interesting the juicy bits very soon, inshallah.
Okay, so that you understand what happened. So these trading posts was spread all over India. Seurat
is on the west coast. Madras is in southeast, then Calcutta is basically the east coast or the East
Eastern territory of India. This is where the British established their pores. So they were trading
initially in cotton. They're taking cloth and spices. Actually cotton came later. The first
		

			incentive for the British traders was spices, Indian spices, there were no refrigerators in Britain
at the time to preserve foods, they needed spices, it was a necessity. In fact, it is estimated that
clubs you know what clubs are?
		

			Longer. Long. Yeah, let me say it in your language. Long.
		

			Okay, clubs were weighed in against gold. This is how important clubs were as a commodity. This is
all valued. You're not today, you can walk into a shop and buy a kilo of clubs and do nothing right.
At that time. They were weighed against gold brothers.
		

			Spices are so important for Europeans and they would travel from their lands, putting their lives in
danger, go through all those sea storms, and all sorts of difficulties. You know, avoiding pirates
and all of that. There was a lot of piracy. The Portuguese pioneered piracy. The Portuguese
controlled the sea, right? The Mughals they were weak in one thing, and that was they did not have
any Navy. The Ottomans did. The Ottomans completely occupied the Mediterranean Sea. So the Europeans
could not do anything in the middle Mediterranean Sea. So they had to find routes around the Ottoman
piracy. They had to find routes. The Ottoman Mujahideen In other words, right. So they were you
		

			know, people like Barbarossa, very famous Ottoman Admiral, and as far as they were concerned, they
were waging, waging jihad against these European powers, hostile European powers. Okay. And this
jihad
		

			of the Ottomans put the Europeans in a really real funny situation.
		

			And what happened in Europe at that time because of the Ottomans is another story. Even Queen
Elizabeth the first joined this jihad, right she became an ally of the Ottoman Sultans, those who
are ruling at her time. There is a book as well, you should check it out the Queen and the Sultan,
check the title of the Queen and the Sultan right how
		

			The British Queen because European establishing the establishment Catholics were against her the
church or the gates. She was a Protestant queen, the Catholics. This is why the Spanish King Philip
the Second sent and our armada of hundreds of ships to invading led in 1588.
		

			Hence the famous Spanish Armada, the destruction of Spanish Armada 1588. You must have studied this
history at school, right? Okay. So the Europeans are looking for alternative routes to trade. And
they were looking, you know, Christopher Columbus was looking for India, when he found Indians, or
the Red Indians. They were actually not Indians. He thought they were Indians, right? That's why
they were called Red Indians. The Native Americans were called Red Indians for a reason why the
corporate Indians? Is it an accident? What do you think this is not an accident? Because early
explorers like Christopher Columbus and those who came after him, they thought these are Indians.
		

			This is India. We are actually in India. But India was 1000s of miles away. They were in America. It
took them a very long time to understand and realize this is actually not India. This is another
territory. Right. So Christopher Columbus was looking for a route to India. Why India? Because India
was so rich. It was so powerful. It was the hub of spices and cloth and all sorts of things.
		

			It was the richest land in the world.
		

			And when the mobiles took it, the mobile became the most powerful people in the world. And the
mobile's did organize India as a powerhouse