Adnan Rashid – The British Raj #04

			The early 19th century when the white man in India became a racist,
		

			very, very proud
		

			and had this sense of white supremacy, and even religious supremacy. So they started to look down
when India was bled dry by the East India Company in his policies, when Indians actually became poor
because of this
		

			foreign power that had occupied so much land. And so much intrigue was caused by this particular
power that the Indians will once upon a time, the richest people in the world became the poorest
people in the world.
		

			So, the web basically invaded the settlements, and ended up killing some people, he put them in a
very dark room. He crammed all the British captives in a dark room. And then they all I mean, not
all of them die, but many of them died. But this episode, this particular incident was so inflated,
so over reported and exaggerated in Britain at the time, that it to this day, if you talk about the
black hole of Calcutta, okay, Google, and you will think, Wow, this must be a great catastrophe. It
was a catastrophe. But less than 50 people die in this he crammed these British captain's in the
room. There died of suffocation because it was hot. Right. Many survived many died. This episode was
		

			so inflated and over reported in Britain at the time, okay to gain sympathy for what the East India
Company officers are doing in Britain at the time, they started to basically support but these
people were about to do in the future. So, the black hole hole of Calcutta was used to depose the
den Nawab Siraj dollar so Clive of India very famous, infamous personality in the history of India.
Clive, who came from humble origins in Britain, and ended up in India, Calcutta serving for the East
India Company decided to take on the Nirvana and his army. So long story short, Nevada's army was
very big, it was 50,000 against 5000 British soldiers 50,000 There was no chance the British had no
		

			chance. But because the Nawab was betrayed as badly as he was, he was betrayed by his own was you
call me as Jaffa he betrayed him. And as a result, the Battle of Blasi in 1757 was lost. Okay and
Navab had to run for his life he was caught and he was killed. And then his vizier mu Jaffa was put
on the throne instead of the Nawab himself. So he became the Nawab of Bengal right? So that's why to
this day in India and Pakistan the Muslims or the Indians in general use this insult if you want to
insult someone is a mere Jaffa
		

			you call him if Jaffa only if sodic. I'll come to Milosevic later. Okay, maybe Jaffa to the extent
that the point, he said
		

			Jaffa has bungle Sadek, as duckin Nanga de nongame millet, nan de Botton, basically he said that the
Java Java bungle and the sodic of duckin of southern India basically they have no Diem, they have no
loyalty, they have no land, basically. So, this is why these two names became because of the
betrayal that became very infamous, right. So, Clive takes
		

			he wins the battle and clearly now they have the confidence the British never had the East India
Company have this confidence having defeated one of the most formidable formidable militaries in
India, right one of the richest provinces in India they have defeated this they cannot believe what
happened. So, now they have become they have become more confident. So confident that now the East
India Company wants to take on a coalition of mobile militaries. So sha Allah, the second the Mughal
emperor in Delhi, and Nawab shoujo dollar from our the state of our amneal Qasim, the Nawab of
Bengal in 1764. They form a coalition to fight the British East India Company in a very famous
		

			battle called the Battle of Buxa. In 1764, these two armies meet face to face. General Monroe is
leading the army in the Battle of boxer and, shockingly, three militaries of the Mughals are
defeated. A coalition of three militaries from three different states
		

			It's defeated.
		

			And this was the end of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, the richest provinces of India. Now the Mughal
Emperor by force in 1765. Under the Treaty of Allahabad, he had to
		

			relinquish the rights of taxation to the British in these provinces, the British, they could not
believe their luck, they could not believe what they were seeing, they could not imagine this could
ever happen in their lifetime. The East India Company is a trading company. Now, they have become a
formidable military power in India, with immense money at their disposal. They became so rich that
Clive when he defeated Nevada Rajala in 1757, that Clive that one person was given 250,000 pounds
250,000 British pounds sterling, I mean, equal of course, an Indian rupees, but he was given 250,000
pounds as a present or as a gift, as a gesture of kindness from the new Nawab, middle Jaffa.
		

			And you know what that money was? Do you can you imagine how much that money was in the 18th
century? 250,000 pounds?
		

			Can you imagine?
		

			How much were the house in Britain in the 1960s? How much was a house about 5000 pounds
		

			is granted. Go back to the 18th century, Klein became a billionaire overnight, big having won this
battle. He became a billionaire. He collected all this money, it comes back to Britain buys land
buys states. Okay. And by the seat in the parliament, you know, at that time in the 18th century,
you could actually if you had the money, you can buy a seat, you could actually buy a seat in the
parliament. Okay, you don't have to be elected. Okay. So, the process of election was different at
that time he did. So he bought a seat, but then he was impeached, he was put on trial for corruption
for acquiring all this money. So the so this Clive Clive of India, he said to his questioners that I
		

			saw treasures in India beyond your imaginations.
		

			vaults are open to me, filled with gold and precious jewels.
		

			And these Indian bankers, Hindu bankers, and Muslim rulers, they would basically pay anything for a
smile from me.
		

			And yet here I stand being put on trial for being moderate. Basically saying I'm quite moderate,
what I brought back with me is trivial is nothing in comparison to what I have left behind. So, they
sent Clive back in 1765 CLIVE was sent back to India to solve some problems already comes back and a
result of his coming back was the Treaty of a lava in 1765. And now the British had their hands on
power, they could not imagine money, immense money coming from Bengal because all the factories all
the economic a lot of economics are taking the you know, economic activity was taking place in
Bengal cloth was being produced, there was rich agriculture. The goal is to this day is
		

			agriculturally the richest province of India. Okay, so, the British had all this money, and then
slowly and steadily they started to expand their territory. throughout India, they started to use
rulers against rulers, they started to conspire, they got more and more arrogant. Firstly, in the
18th century, the British were heavily inspired by the models because the models were very powerful.
They had a very rich culture, they are rich art, they have rich language, rich poetry, rich
philosophy, you name it, you look at you look at Islamic manuscripts from the medieval period your
your head will spin. When you look at those Persian manuscripts, written in the Persian language,
		

			Persian poetry of Hafeez Shirazi and some Indian points in the Persian language during the Mughal
period is going to spin your minds the philosophy those guys who are writing the works on theology
Hadees and Quran manuscripts, gold illuminated you know, artwork miniatures, you look at or and the
architecture. You if you look at the architecture, the Taj Mahal, everyone talks about the Taj Mahal
but if you look at other things that created the Red Fort, okay of Delhi, and the badshahi Mosque of
Lahore, and the shy fourth of the Lahore and the list goes on and on and on Mughal architecture,
Fatehpur Sikri alone, and for the poor in India is going to really, really, really inspire you. So
		

			the Mughals created all of this, they had a very powerful ritual. So these British merchants and the
officers when they came to India, they were completely mesmerized. They were blown away by by this
pomp and glitter and culture and
		

			indigenous, they got immersed into this culture.
		

			And they started to adopt the Mughal culture. They started to dress like moguls, you will see white
men in India in the 18th century walking around in mobile clothes.
		

			Right nowadays you go to Pakistan, India, what do they want to look like? They want to look like the
white man. Right? Because the white man is politically yet economically dominant when I say the
white man, I mean, the Western civilization. I don't mean in a racist sense, right? I'm not talking
in the resistance. I'm saying you know, it is like in a civilizational term, you know,
		

			so they want to dress like the white man. Okay, but the white man at that time in the in the 18th
century wanted to dress like the Mogul, because the Mughal culture was dominant, right. So a book
has been written on this very topic by an English author, actually Scottish is not English, is
William Dalrymple. William Dalrymple has written a book titled The White morals, the white morals.
So if you read this book, he shows you how a lot of these English white men working for East India
Company and for their interest in different courts of India are adopting the Indian culture. There
was no reason to be proud and haughty against the Indians, there was no reason to look down upon
		

			them, because the Indians are so powerful and so rich and so culturally vibrant.
		

			It is only in the early 19th century when the white man in India became racist,
		

			very, very proud and had this sense of white supremacy, and even religious supremacy. So they
started to look down when India was bled dry by the East India Company in his policies, when Indians
actually became poor because of this
		

			foreign power that had occupied so much land. And so much intrigue was caused by this particular
power that the Indians will once upon a time, the richest people in the world became the poorest
people in the world.