This post is an attempt to make sense of the views

 Dr V.S. Gopalkrishnan expounds in his post:
 

WHY NOT LEAVE  TIBET ALONE ?

WHY SHOULD THE WEST SHED CROCODILE TEARS?

by Dr.V.S.Gopalakrishnan Ph.D., IAS Retd.

 a link to the blog is provided at the end of this blog  

Confounded by the views of Dr.V.S.Gopalakrishnan Ph.D., IAS Retd., my mind turns to the extracts of a letter I found in the Most Imperial Library at Krizkatsazn.

This letter was written by a British imperialist advocating the continued rule of India . The letter was written sometime in the late 1890s and only sections are legible.

I present below those legible sections:

Dearest cousin…

….These Indians are incapable of ruling themselves…first they were ruled by the Moghul rulers and then they are now ruled by our own great country – Great Britain… Indeed, Alexander the Great would have easily conquered India if his soldiers had had more discipline…and India then would have been a nation of conquered peoples throughout almost all their recorded history…Such people have no right to independence…It is a privilege to be ruled by Great Britain...these primitive Indians should be grateful for this ennobling rule by our enlightened nation…

India is not even a nation – it has never been a nation…We brought order and unity to it and now these primitive savages want freedom? That is ridiculous… what a ridiculous idea - half-naked barbarians ruling themselves? 

This country is barbaric, I tell you…We are here to teach them logic and to teach them what true religion is…They get married to dogs, did you know? They burn widows! Do such a people deserve to rule themselves…?

My dear cousin….just during the last decade, I have noticed how appreciably the standard of living of the Indians has improved…its rich now enjoy tea and biscuits and all the comforts that British nobility can give it…and this will in time, with our glorious British rule over India…will filter to all sections of the population…That is vastly superior to what India has ever had and will ever have…let India be a British colony forever, and these simpletons will rise to the very heights of civilization that Great Britain has reached…We the British have improved the communications vastly in many chaotic parts of India. And linked to all our other colonies, India will go global at this rate…

And these fools speak of Independence . They just can’t appreciate what they are enjoying…

Since India is so closely bound with the British Empire , why not let it be and leave it to be so?

Most fervently in the British rule of India