Slagle,
You really have your head stuck in the sand. Stay with your persecution complex. It is proven that your prejudice overrules all facts.
I know relatives who had British teachers in their schools and colleges all the way to late 1950s. Similarly, relatives who worked in British Companies (tea companies, liquor companies, etc. talk about how their top managers were British.
Anyway here is an account that I found which gives a view of life in India for the British pre- and post-independence. You will notice how accomodating the indians were to the British.
Some relevant excerpts:
lib.lsu.edu
>In South India, you can still see older, poorer British who have retired at the Hill Stations--they are Aalmost unaware that independence happened in 1947;>
>Sporting life was good in country clubs in Calcutta; there was a long waiting list to get into them and (embarrassingly) most clubs did not admit Indians until after independence; Indians took it quite well, instead of saying, Ayou know what you can do with your club!>
>after independence, people said there were more Europeans in India than in pre-independence, but that began to die out in the late 1950s and 60s; reasons for decline of Europeans: A) high taxation, B) nationals should do the job if possible, C) many foreign companies sold out anyway; at one stage, his company had over 200 British people, but declined to 50 by the time he left>
-Arun
>Arun Re: "Englishmen" Thank you for helping me make my point. There WERE English families that had been there for generations, building countryhouses and estates that are still there today. In all the vast expanse of India there is not even one single reigon, even a single community of Englishmen remaining after all those many generations. The reason is that they weren't wanted there and they wouldn't have been safe there after independence.> |
