William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - British Imperialism in India
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The Importance of a Museum of Imperialism
William: It's a shame to lose historical objects and i made some enemies at the time colston statue came down by saying you know i didn't like the idea of iconoclasm. When we left india we left tens of thousands of imperial statues in every town in india they put them into parks with explanations, he says. Willliam: My preferred solution is at one one point in every year we have a festival where we pelt the statues we don't like with tomatoes so that we don't get accused of pulling down deleting history and we can move on.
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