Comments on: The Benevolent Empire http://varnam.org/blog/2007/11/the_benevolent_empire/ History, Current Affairs & Books Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:39:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JK http://varnam.org/blog/2007/11/the_benevolent_empire/comment-page-1/#comment-2591 JK Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:40:53 +0000 http://varnam.org/blog/?p=1357#comment-2591 Chandra, The Romans had a huge empire in their time and they had people of different cultures in their land. They never tried to convert people or destroy their culture for their whole focus was on the stability of the empire. Modern empires are driven more by the missionary zeal and destroying religions, cultures and economies is their contribution. Chandra, The Romans had a huge empire in their time and they had people of different cultures in their land. They never tried to convert people or destroy their culture for their whole focus was on the stability of the empire. Modern empires are driven more by the missionary zeal and destroying religions, cultures and economies is their contribution.

]]> By: Chandra http://varnam.org/blog/2007/11/the_benevolent_empire/comment-page-1/#comment-2590 Chandra Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:49:43 +0000 http://varnam.org/blog/?p=1357#comment-2590 That's a good one, JK! There is this other historian -Niall Ferguson - transplanted into Harvard from UK few years ago. He espouses the same fantasies in his books on the empire. In someway the history is still being written by British historian and their successors in US- so we shouldn't expect too much introspection from them. But why blame them. Our own current PM said, recently while visiting UK, imperialism was the best thing that happened to Indians!!! That’s a good one, JK! There is this other historian Niall Ferguson – transplanted into Harvard from UK few years ago. He espouses the same fantasies in his books on the empire. In someway the history is still being written by British historian and their successors in US so we shouldn’t expect too much introspection from them.

But why blame them. Our own current PM said, recently while visiting UK, imperialism was the best thing that happened to Indians!!!

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