Still less do India’s travails in the Second World War get any serious attention. The Sunday Times simply reported the news with the tongue-in-cheek headline ‘By jingo, PM’s family killed for the empire’. Soon after British prime minister David Cameron had pleased his hosts during a visit to India earlier this year by contending that some in Pakistan were ‘looking both ways’ over the question of the Taliban, it was discovered that his great-great-grandfather took part in the bloody suppression of the Indian Mutiny, which began in 1857. OL5958939W Page_number_confidence 87.77 Pages 378 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220425190157 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 180 Scandate 20220423214416 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780465002016 Tts_version 4.Today, as Britain seeks diplomatic links with India and as Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading.īritain’s conduct in the Indian subcontinent has largely disappeared from memory – at least in Britain.
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