
AER 119: That time when Britain killed 10 million Indian people, with Amaresh Mishra
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
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The Indian Revolutionary War of 1857
The elite who took power after 1947 came from that section, mostly, of people who sided with the British in 1857. They had to accept it as India's first war of independence, otherwise India didn't have a narrative. These forces were always very cagey about 1857. But that was a nasty one. There were three warriors, right? And they just make the Muslim guy completely, he's gone. He's not in it anymore. Right?Yeah. So that was, Yeah. This, this, this actually again reflects the elite of India,. The current Indian bourgeoisie say the, the big business houses and, you know, Tata's and the builders and, and,
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