When he says the British invented India, he's referring to India as a modern democratic nation state, not Indian civilisation.

@Muckylittleme

20 күн бұрын

It is apt that it started with the Life of Brian Roman scene because the Indian's hatred of Brit's would be the same as Brit's hating the Roman's for their occupation which was far more brutal. We don't we recognise how many advancements came with their civilisation and said, "Call that a Civilisation? Hold my beer!"

@angr3819

18 күн бұрын

by and large they weren't civilised. The islamic invasion of India and subsequent rule was probably the most bloody ever. The British put a stop to that then when India demanded its Independence, the majority of both Hindus and Muslims demanded partition before we left. Both threatened civil war and in fact they had more or less starred that, until partition. The British left there were also under such threat they had to do it asap. Still it was achieved and what remained India was Islam free. It was they themselves who let Islam and mosques back in and there is trouble to this day because of it. Also, Hindus outside of India are peaceful but not always in their homelands. Some still mass murder christian too. India wasn't a sovereign country under the rule of its own indigenous people before the British. Too much for here so go learn. The British cleaned up the filthy Ganges and other rivers. The British also put a stop to suti, burning widows alive. The British have them the best sewage system in the world in 1870. Better than our own! Indians let it break down, not maintained nor updated. Recently, the British treasury, OUR tax money, was paid to Japan to install up to date new toilets which are strangley similar to our old straw instead of flushing water toilets. However, they are modern materials and easily cleaned and kept up. Do I believe India landed anything on the moon 😂 Many Indians had and still now do use their lowest caste, the untouchables, to take small carrier bags of their waste and dispose of it. They pay with scraps of food. What would you suppose the lowest caste do with that waste? Hmmm. Too much more for here.

It was the British that drove out the Mughals from India and set the slaves free.

@robthomson7350

Ай бұрын

❤ I've got nothing to say 👏

@Stand663

29 күн бұрын

The British fought slavers everywhere they went. The Arabs were the most heinous of slavers . Why the British embarked on this enormous crusade ? Nobody knows. Maybe it was their Christian principles. It was the church who first raised the question after all .

@fitzjameswood5486

26 күн бұрын

And turned a country with 25% of the world's GDp into country with only 4% of the world's GDP. It's called fleecing.. And Mughals? Israel? Balfour hated Jews (lovely man) But the British love a bit of ethnic cleansing and taught the Israelis how (Aud Wingate...who Monty believed was a complete nutter..trust me, Monty was right!) genociding the natives a British past time; ask the Indians..how many died in the totally preventable Bengal famine? A million? Ask Mr. Churchill...but we did give them the railways...this Australian is a complete twerp!

@Seevawonderloaf

26 күн бұрын

The marathas did that for the Hindi heartland and there were still southern kings so this isn’t entirely correct. Moreover that doesn’t make the British benevolent. They just enslaved us but that enslavement was less brutal than the Mughals but in the long run a lot worse bc it messed our indigenous identity

@bernadettekenaghan3246

25 күн бұрын

The British were the ones that banned slavery

"We had a country before the British". There was the Mughal Empire which was very cruel. The British defeated it. You're welcome.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

No thankyou. It's not for your benevolence Tommy. But, till India becomes richer than US, we can't claim anything for ourselves, just hope we can show the world.

I am always amazed that everyone on this channel is so ignorant about how the british advanced india and turned it from a medieval slave-based hellhole into a modern country with human rights and democracy. Everything regarding human freedom that indians enjoy today came from Britain, and nowhere else. Democracy, human rights, independent courts, private property, the ability to choose your religion, where you live, your job, basic things like that. 90% of indians were slaves before the british arrived, and women were literally property. So if you enjoy not being a slave, thank the British, because nobody else lifted a finger to free you in all of history. Oh, and it was the Brits who made india into a country, before that it was a just geographical region.

@Light_Painter

29 күн бұрын

When you've been brainwashed all your life to believe the Brits were monsters, it's not easy to make the intellectual leap and realise you were wrong.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

The hell hole you describe is exactly your country before 17the century, it was true for every ancient civilizations - Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Romans, Greeks all of them had dark periods, India being an flourishing ancient civilization also had it's decay, it's just that we were decaying when others in world were starting to build back, it takes 100s of years to build back a civilization like China and India. They surely are coming for the decaying west now. Hope we don't turn out like the westerners in past. Lol

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

You don't know all of history Tommy. Stop reading British government propaganda, read Indian, Africans and Chinese accounts of British rule you'll surely get a different perspective. But I guess you won't like it. Lol

@gauravrainck

22 күн бұрын

BRITAIN ALSO ANNIHILATED SO MANY BILLIONS OF INDIAN PEOPLE, RELIGION, CULTUTURE AND INDIAN TRADE THAT HOLOCAUST WAS JUST A STROLL IN THE GARDEN BY COMPARISON AND BRITAIN ALSO LOOTED MORE THAN 45 TRILLION POUNDS FROM INDIA TURNING IT INTO ONE OF THE POOREST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WHEN THOSE PEOPLE LEFT INDIA WHICH USED TO BE CALLED "A SPARROW OF GOLD" IN THE 16TH CENTURY TURNING IT INTO THE WORLD'S WORST BASKET CASE THAT INDIA WAS IN 1947................. IT'S SO UNFORTUNATE THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU NOT ONLY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA ABOUT INDIA BEFORE BRITISHERS' 'DIVIDE AND RULE' INVASION OF INDIA, BUT YOU PEOPLE ARE STILL LIVING IN 19TH CENTURY BRITAIN ........... WE CAN FORGIVE YOU ALL TODAY BECAUSE YOU DON'T MATTER,.................... 🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🎉🎉

@johnbruce2868

22 күн бұрын

@@ajaxjaiswal3442 You can always detect the hatred concomitant with envy because the objective of the author is to destroy something they conceive of as prideful in the ownership of another person and they invariably resort to ad hominem personal slanders towards that person, frequently of a sly racist kind ("Tommy").

No England, no cricket

@sandemike

Ай бұрын

Or Rugby

@tallthinkev

Ай бұрын

@@sandemike or football, lawn tennis, table tennis, ice hockey, golf, baseball, badminton, squash

@pratosaurusrex1128

25 күн бұрын

@@tallthinkevgolf and arguably football is Scottish. Make sure no Scot sees this comment 🤣

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

India has many great Indian sports. Come see out our national games. It's just because you guys had colonies to spread your games otherwise, you were still playing these games on the tiny island. Props to colonisation. But I guess now Brits are again feeling proud of colonialism. Good times are coming back I guess in your heads😂

@MrDunkycraig

23 күн бұрын

@@ajaxjaiswal3442think you dont understand if you think like this. Modern brits understand colonisation was bad, but we should also be proud of how we have helped the planet move into this modern age of comfort and longer life. We also know that history is nuance and not binary good or bad.

We never claim to be perfect, we Brits were born out of fire that lasted thousands of years across Europe. But, for all the bad deeds we committed we were a catalyst for progress with an almost evangelical zeal to embrace it, accelerate it, and spread it. We had our time and we made the most of it, not even nuclear war will turn the clocks back now and our contributions and revolutions will last as long as Human civilisation exists.

@braddbradd5671

Ай бұрын

Thats what happens when you invent the Industrial revolution thats what really changed the world, that and the railway ,before that every one in the world only went as far as a horse can ride then youd have to stay over night and feed and rest your horse so people really stayed local .But then the traines came along then it was cars and now we have space ships

@robbie_

27 күн бұрын

That's an interesting point. Systems Competition. When you have a homogenous civilisation, you lose that. So much of progress is based around it. I wonder what is lost by globalisation.

@darthwiizius

27 күн бұрын

@@robbie_ Globalisation is like all economic upheavals, it comes with winners and losers. Workers in developed economies see a loss of work and competition on remaining workers wages and conditions. The business owners make more money, developing economies get to accelerate their economies in the short and medium term through the corporate exploitation of their people until their economy grows to the point that they are no longer competitive with now less developed countries who next become exploited as the production gets moved again. Now, in the very long term eventually there will be (in theory) no countries at the bottom to be exploited, but this comes at the expense of one set of people over another lasting potentially generations.

About India - good or bad? I'd say ask my husband - he was from India but sadly he died 10 years ago. Yes, I had to persuade him to change his Indian Passport to British because it was easier for travelling but I don't think he ever regretted it. He cheered for India in Cricket, but he cheered for us English in so much else of life. Yes, we traded with India and I reckon I got a really great bargain!

@twatinahatsmith7428

Ай бұрын

We did give them cricket. Surely good value for what we took lol.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

True😂 good trade

@shonums

23 күн бұрын

@jang3412 So I take it your a White Brit NO offense , you seem to be a bit up in age forgive me if your not , here is the reason I said that older people tend to reAD nOW A DAYS KIDS JUST don'T BUT LIKE TO PUT THEIR THOUGHTS OUT THERE WITH OUT ANY REAL EXPERIENCE OR KNOWLEDGE. do you think the Brits weree good people in the Colonize not in England but in the countries they invaded. NO they looted plundered example the Indian jewel that the Queen of England put on her Ceown, then the Indian Emperors Thrown had the Kohinoor Diamond looted and taken to England used by the Monarch of England.

@twatinahatsmith7428

22 күн бұрын

@shonums You are correct, I am an oldish white Brit. I do like to read as well. Very insightful of you. No doubt we did great damage to your economy. That can't be disputed. Yes, we took great valuables from there. But let's not pretend that India was a perfectly fair country to its own people. There was slavery, different sects/ castes who were looked down upon, and ruled by the elites. It wasn't a fair system at all, so let's not pretend it was a wonderful place before we took it over. It wasn't. As far as colonisation. Most countries that were colonised have a better standard of living than non colonised countries. For all we took, we also gave them something back, no doubt in my mind about that. But just like India, in the days we took you over. Britain was ruled by the elites. The British working class had no real rights. Look up the Peterloo massacre of 1819. The working class wanted a parlimental representative and a right to vote. At that time, only around 10 to 15% of Englishs were allowed a vote. The working class only got the right in 1918. We didn't gain anything from colonisation in any way. Only the elites gained, much like today, really. You might want to read about the British crusade to end the worldwide practice of slavery, which had been normal for thousands of years. So, in essence, yes, we did some things that are bad, but also did some good as well. Much like the Romans did when they had a big empire, it brought along many things that were life improving to many countries. I feel neither shame nor pride for what happened in the past.

Don't forget tea, the British brought tea from China and planted it in India because the climate would make a better cuppa. And today India are the worlds biggest importers of the worlds best tea's, which must be Good for your economy im sure.

@darthwiizius

Ай бұрын

Britain got black tea from the Assam tribe. They got Opium from them first and tried using that to break the Chinese monopoly on tea (The Opium Wars) then realised that they also had a form of tea, we drink primarily teas that originate from the Assam tribe's method. It's all the same plant, in reality, but the drying method is what changes the colour and flavour. BTW India is currently a net importer of tea, the World's largest net exporter of tea is Kenya where the vast majority of the British Isles gets it's tea from today, and has done for decades.

@offal

Ай бұрын

they actually stole it lol.

@RowenaCavanagh

Ай бұрын

no, thechinese would not give the British tea plants but thesame plant was found growing in the n.e. of India., hence all the tea planttions there.

@offal

Ай бұрын

@@RowenaCavanagh Robert Fortune was a scientist, a botanist and, in some ways, an industrial spy. But he is best known as the man who stole tea from deep within China and took it to India in the mid-1800s, changing history.

@darthwiizius

Ай бұрын

@@RowenaCavanagh Yup, the opium tribe we used to employ to take their opium to China also drank tea. Once we actually realised, the Opium wars were over.

A huge amount of what you were "taught" is nationalist propaganda. Politicians always like to have a "bogey man", that they can blame when things go wrong. The biggest gift the UK gave to India was democracy. Guard it well, because there are those that wish to undermine it.

The British built 26,000 miles of railways in India and every single yard of caste iron track and every single train was manufactured in Britain, loaded aboard a ship, transported half way around the world, then carried out across thousands of miles of country and laid, a monumental feat of logistics and engineering. What about hydraulics? Pneumatics? The English language, the unifying language of the world. He's mentioned the big ones but there are a thousand smaller ones.

@sandemike

23 күн бұрын

And got rid of Thugee and Sutee.

@davidpotter3569

22 күн бұрын

Were you punning with the spelling of cast iron? Caste has a very different meaning.

@copferthat

22 күн бұрын

General Napier and his men came across a Sutee ceremony, where for the uninitiated was the practice of throwing a man's wife alive onto his funeral pyre. He told the official he wouldn't allow it and he replied that it was their tradition. Napier replied... In England we have a tradition of hanging the murderers of women, so you go ahead and carry out your tradition and then we'll carry out ours. She didn't burn. As for Thugee, that abhorrent, religious practice of murdering people by strangulation and claimed around 2,500,000 lives in its history. The British launched a campaign against this secretive organisation, infiltrated it, broke it open and hanged many mass murderers and succeeded in destroying the whole murderous organisation

@nightwingjattibanez

22 күн бұрын

Britain didn't give India trains so the populus could travel, they put them in so they could rob the nation quicker

@copferthat

21 күн бұрын

Whoops

The bridge in the photo was built in 1779, was the first iron bridge, and is still standing where it was built, although traffic is no longer allowed to cross it, you can still walk across it.

@copferthat

23 күн бұрын

I visited the bridge a couple of years ago and there was a team of American engineers there to look at it. They were thrilled.

You have to remember that the British were the most successful civilization in history. Of course they made mistakes, but it's essentially Britain that mostly created the Western civilization we know today. Also, it should be remembered that the British Empire was the most benevolent empire that ever existed. The world would be in a lot worse place if Britain had never existed. Another thing to remember is that in almost every country, history has a lot of anti-British propaganda, mainly based upon origin stories. Them bad us good.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

Not until 16th century, before that you were burning witches

@angrybob3594

9 күн бұрын

I am British, and we did not invent Western civilization. The Greeks did that.

@user-xz6qk9wf9j

3 күн бұрын

You do have a point 😂, but so do I

India was split into different areas Britain helped unite them. Look at countries influenced by the British and have a democratic. Hong Kong given back to China then the people of Hong Kong marching in the streets with the union flag. Parts of Africa after Britain left war lords took over and murdered millions. Some countries Britain invaded were already ruled by others countries like France. Spain. Germany. And the Dutch countries that at the time Britain was at war with. So after defeating those countries Britain took control of the colonies.

I'm Ex H.M. FORCES. Under QUEEN ELIZABETH II. MY old REGIMENT has the largest Sikh captured battle flag!. After that, the Sikhs joined us. From that point on, the British Army Sikh have proved their honour time and time again. You're absolutely loved and respected by us. Love your posts .

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

Yes they the british served well 🤦

@chrispayne-lloyd6896

23 күн бұрын

@@ajaxjaiswal3442 and still do!!!

So a a cyclone in October 1942 which destroyed rice crops had nothing to do with the Bengal famine? Sorry but we had a war to try and stop and was on rations as well.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

Don't read British sources when trying to understand colonialism. I guess if you had read about the academic reading you would have referred diverse sources for better understanding but I guess you don't need to learn other sources to reaffirm your r*cist feelings 😂😂

@Oxley016

16 күн бұрын

and the local Indian rice and grain dealers wouldn't release their reserve stocks because they wouldn't get enough profit under war time measures

I visited India recently and met with a Kashmiri man called Pran. I told him that it was a shame about British colonialism and he replied that it was the age of colonialism; better the British than the Dutch, French, Germans or Portuguese. He told me that the countries that were part of the British Empire were mostly now mature democracies, where the rule of law prevails. Compare that with the Spanish and South and Central America. Despot and despot, revolution after revolution. Made me rethink everything.

love that as soon as he saw a mini "Mr Bean!"

Weird things that over the years I've learnt the British have invented: roundabouts crisps the police council housing schools school uniforms zebra crossings First street in the world to be lit by electric street lamps The world's first underground railway system

Where ever the British went they build and gave freedoms to all❤❤❤

@Seevawonderloaf

26 күн бұрын

If you actually think this then you have not read history at all. Most of the places the British left, they created a conflict. India/Pakistan, Israel/Palestine and a myriad of others

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

British reacting to Indian channels are hilarious, I guessed that only Indians like to go on foreign youtubers' channels and say proud to be Indians but now seeing same stoopid bunch existing in western countries is reaffirming my beliefs in humanity 😂😂😂😂😂

@shonums

23 күн бұрын

What a bunch of CROCK . read the History books go to the local areas and fact check and ask HOW WHY and WHEN you will get the real answer. Question for you Majoriestoker name me one country the Brits went in and did not leave or get booted out . America, Australia, India, just a few the Brits were kickedd out forceed out they didd not leave on their own free will now did they . Educate yourself you would get wiser NOT the other way around. A invader never comes to a country to do good the longer they stay they make infrastructure better for themselves simple .

@Oxley016

16 күн бұрын

@@Seevawonderloaf Ah, you say when they left! As in when the British were no longer controlling/guiding the development of those places, it went to shit after they were gone? When it wasn't them running things anymore?

India is rightly proud to have one of the best railway networks in the world.

@gwilymmorgan5115

Ай бұрын

Shame about the trains, then.

@robbie_

27 күн бұрын

@@gwilymmorgan5115 Indian trains have been great for memes.

No good dwelling on past grievances without the British it would have been a damn hard world😌

Attitudes evolve over time. I was in rock bands in the 80s when it was perfectly acceptable to screw multiple women in one night and do loads of drugs. I now look back at how I behaved and cringe and feel a bit ashamed. This is the same with any invading force such as us Brits, but you have to remember that when a country is invaded by people who are technologically far superior they bring that knowledge with them. Many countries were made up of separate tribes who were constantly at war with each other. Britain was invaded on many occasions and we may not have liked it at the time but the Romans left us with revolutionary technology that we benefit from today. India would be left in the bronze age if the Brits hadn't arrived. We brought hospitals with modern medicines, schools, roads, railways, modern factories where you guys build land rovers and are still making Royal Enfield motorcycles. The most important thing we can do is learn from our mistakes and try not to repeat them. ✌️❤️🇬🇧

The alarm clock that makes tea is called a Teasmaid if you want to get one.👍

@stewedfishproductions9554

Ай бұрын

Available from Argos and with Swan (the original makers) as the brand... BUT, the ones sold now are manufactured in China and are NOT the same quality as when made in the UK. Still OK, but try to buy a used / second hand original if possible. Just saying!!! 😊

@CovBloke1310

22 күн бұрын

@@stewedfishproductions9554 Mum and Dad had one about 50 years ago. We still occasionally use it now.

@stewedfishproductions9554

22 күн бұрын

@@CovBloke1310 That shows 'they don't make them like that anymore...' 😊

@marybarnes8698

14 күн бұрын

I might be wrong but I think it was spelt Teasmaid or maybe its just me linking it to a maid like in the old days when the rich had maids etc.

@shelleyphilcox4743

11 күн бұрын

My mum and dad had one....the alarm sound is horrific, and has stayed with me for 50 odd years!

Harrisons Chronometer and copper-bottomed hulls, it is how the Brits ruled the world

portland cement, is the grey bit, you see between bricks, on most british houses, like the glue to keep the bricks together, for the want of a better word

@jeffappleton926

Ай бұрын

Nope. You're talking about mortar - which is often partly made of Portland cement. Portland cement is an ingredient that when mixed with water and an aggregate (usually stones) turns into concrete. Pretty much every bit of modern concrete in buildings, pathways, dams etc is based on Portland cement.

@seanmc1351

Ай бұрын

@@jeffappleton926 yes i know, i was talking in a simple terms, not someone that is maybe in the trade, with the know how, it was a simple example

@jeffappleton926

Ай бұрын

@@seanmc1351 Fair enough - Have a good one!

India was a collection of different kingdoms ruled by different factions. The closest India came top unity before the British came to India was under the invasion of the islamic Moguls who united most of northern India but could not totally subjugate all of the sub continent.. It was the British who actually united all of modern day India.. And when they left India was again divided and lost unity with Pakistan and Bangladesh..

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

When you don't read don't shit in the comments sections 😂

we built all of your infrastructur including roads cannals waterways agriculture government laws police judges irrigation systems modern farming methods unified the indian continent into one big country from 40 plus independant states etc

I enjoyed watching your reaction to this video guys! good job!

Let's not forget cricket and the beatles

British Empire 🇬🇧 got you Indians out of surfdom, we educated you, provided infrastructure, put in a real government, put in plumbing, and a good legal system, and we the British gave India everything, same as we did for America, Canada, Australia , New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and now your in the British Commonwealth 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@Chris-mf1rm

27 күн бұрын

Surfdom? We saved them from hanging ten on breakers? I never knew that. On the downside, by saving them from surfdom we stopped India from inventing the Beach Boys.

India is our friend now and thank God for that,but I would suggest that overall,looking at the big picture,where ever we were colonising had benefits they had never had before. I’m always going to be proud to be British.

I travelled India for a year and ended up living there for another 4 years, I learned so much about the atrocities my country did to the Indians, I became friends with an old gentleman in Darjeeling who was really pro British, he was ex Indian Army, he really should have been a history teacher as he was so knowledgable.

I find it interesting to imagine a world where Britain had been isolationist but somehow managed to still invent all that it did. No empire for people to be upset with but also how far behind the UK other countries would be technologically. Of course most of the inventions couldn't have happened in that situation. It would be like comparing Tokyo to a village in the Amazon.

@ukqwerty999

29 күн бұрын

Britain would have been Wakanda

The reach of the British empire and the assimilation of so many cultures, so much knowledge and so many strong backs and minds are more a testament to what can be achieved when so much of the world is put to a common goal. But if history has taught us anything it’s that humans will only do this when there is a certain ruthlessness at the helm. Protectionism and nationalism can only achieve so much and tends to benefit one side at the expense of the other. Britains history before all of the achievements is one of invasion, subjugation, in fighting between tribes and kingdoms and conquest.

I like your thinking, but what nation in history, could, invaded, and colonise, most of the world, and not really be hated, we have people from every part of the world in the UK, they want to come here, i can see why, so we cant be that bad

India was a place, and I think the British established it as a thing instead of a concept.

Britain was a naval power, we didn’t have huge land armies so worked with local leaders.

How as Indians do you not know that you were not a unified country prior to the arrival of the British ?

MUSKAN !!!!!!!!!!!!! I like your glasses.

There were many reasons for the Bengal famine being a disaster. It wasn't solely the responsibility of the British. In fact, before the war, they had managed to prevent famines for quite some time.

Good video, i enjoyed that, seeing it from your perspective was refreshing. nice one :D cheers.

That alarm clock that makes tea is called a teasmaid I had one 😂😂😊

When the British left India the continent blew up into civil war with over a million dead and many more millions injured which was a lot worse than anything the British did.

@prp3231

18 күн бұрын

We got Pakistan out of the chaos. Jinnah did a huge favor for us Hindus. He took many with him to his homeland. Today, we Hindus can laugh at Pakistan 😂😂😂 . Cheers Jinnah and The British. Western stooges Ne hru the womaniser and Gandi would have wanted a unified India.

@prp3231

17 күн бұрын

The problem is, how the British will feel about Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford, Shrewsbury, Luton, Derby, Blackburn, Preston, and many others in 20 years time? Will Britain have a Kashmir like situation? Good luck ! Karma. What goes around comes around.

@brianshockledge3241

17 күн бұрын

@@prp3231 It`s already a massive problem the infrastructure can not cope now. It will be a third world shithole before you know it.

@aabaaa9993

10 күн бұрын

@@prp3231 You're a truly disgusting human being to believe that people who have nothing to do with what happened in India, should suffer for thier ancestors sins.

India would not be what it is today without the British, and much of the world. I accept the way it did conquer nations colonisation negative, but remember the start of the video, the British did not want the Romans invading Britain, but the advances made with the incoming knowledge helped it become the nation it became spreading the knowledge and a common language across the world allowed all of us to move forward into the future, and trade allowed many to become richer, i submit therefore the British advanced the world for all. Democracy itself British and where would we be without that, living a Feudal Life warring against one another, a place Russia now wants to take us back to.

One thing rarely stressed - being referred to a mongrel people and a nation of shop keepers, is not far from the reality. Britain benefited enormously from waves of immigration, conquest and colonisation - Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Friesians, Romans, Vikings, Normans - not mention the refuge it gave to European groups like the Lombard's, Flemish, Huguenots, Jews - all making significant contributions to Britain and its industries like finance, agriculture and mining. We now have the Commonwealth nations heavily represented and all make their own valuable contributions. "Racial purity" has never, ever been a British thing, and any groups that says it, are idiots - and our contribution to the creation of the modern world owes a great deal to that diversity. Britain's contribution to the modern world really is hard to over state, but it really is a success story of a very mongrel nation!

@ritacobb3063

13 күн бұрын

In the Nineteen Forties , when we were children in England my father would say we were a mongrel race. Our nearest town is StAlbans Herts.This was the Roman capital of England. Our village was a Saxon village.

@jasonward9429

12 күн бұрын

@@ritacobb3063 No, St Albans wasn''t the Roman capital of England for the simple reason that England didn't exist. If you mean Britannia then I think Colchester (Camulodunum) might have something to say about that.

@ritacobb3063

12 күн бұрын

@@jasonward9429 I know it was…

@ritacobb3063

12 күн бұрын

Verulanjium was its name. It was sacked by Boudicca

There's a lot of respect for India here in England. When the Brits went to India they brought back a lot of India with when they came back to England. Lots of hindi words, Indian food is VERY popular here, and all the mysticism of India. You can find a lot of Indian influences here in England. xxx

I'm persuaded that the British involvement in India was an overall benefit to the area now known as India because that was Gandhi's opinion, and he lived through it and was no particular friend of Britain for much of his life.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

He was indeed fan of British in a system when their own system was decaying, it doesn't mean was all praise about British, he called them r*cist idiots and thieves.

The cost of running and protecting the empire was far greater than any money generated by the empire, this is why it came to an end.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

We funded your industrialisation sir.... What are you talking about?

Hahaha when she says "why would you want to be ruled by someone?" 🤣 💯 True

@sedekiman824

29 күн бұрын

Ruled by the Moghuls?

I love your passion for history. Are you both related?

Many people in Britain had a teasmade in the 60's. They were great - waking up to a nice cuppa.

I recall a TV programme shown on UK TV about South America .. an indiginous man said he and his people wished the British had invaded them instead of the Spanish .. oo-er !

@prp3231

22 күн бұрын

Was it where this man then was seen being taken by men in white coats back to the mental health hospital?

@davidcopson5800

3 күн бұрын

@@prp3231 Britain invented the mental health hospital.

what we are also forgetting is what India gave us. some of the best engineers at that time were Indian .they had years of overcoming problems .they just needed help with how to do it.but once they had access to new ways and tools they made increadable things.

It was the Scottish age of enlightenment that changed the world from what it was before till what it is today (in the free world).

I recall my Dad telling me of many of these. The Piston Ring & Generator. His knowledge helped me enormously

Let us also remember the Sporting inventions the Brits gave the World, where would India be without Cricket? The British also either invented or codified Association Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Tennis, Table Tennis, Curling, Badminton, Snooker... the list is endless.. the World would not have Sporting Recreation without the British.

Thank you for being so objective.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

We are always like that 😂

Us brits did great and horrific things, just like everyone else, we were just bigger so the good was bigger and the terrible was bigger. Love to all

It’s ironic that you are taught that the British was bad. But by your own admission you are still benefiting from the British empire! (the bridge you mentioned). Still happy to use the trains to move goods and people around India. That was built and paid for by the British! Indian was not even a country until the British arrived. It was divided into many hundreds of individual tribes and territories. The British united India and left India with the world largest democracy! Antibiotics alone have saved many Indian people. Then were killed under the British empire. The British was so bad, 70 years later. India is are STILL befitting from the British empire!

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

"India was not even a country until British empire?" Where the f*ck is that written?? What the holy Christ f*ck are these tommies are talking about???? Ancient Indian texts talk about Indian geography for thousands of years when Europeans were wearing animal skins and dancing in front of fires.

I wish people would understand that during most of the British colonisation, that the lower classes in Britain never benefitted and in some ways as oppressed as people in other countries, that we were colonising. Look at the Peterloo massacre of 1819. Every family member had to work just to try survive in them times, even kids. The elites got all the benefits, not the British people. In fact working class people didn't get the right to vote until 1918. But not everything is bad that Britain did. The crusade against slavery, which was practiced worldwide at that time. Most countries that got colonised tends to have a better standard of living then non-colonised countries. Always talk about what we took, but not what we gave back to countries.

India has shown they aren't better off without Britain apparently

It’s hard to shake off a lifetime of propaganda, whatever country you come from, whether you believe the British are good or evil.

British. Common. Law...... If you're doing business globally right now, 90% chance you're influenced by this...... because everywhere that uses it succeeds

Its really hard to rationally view the old world through new eyes. Up till just over 200 years ago you would be hung in the UK for stealing, let that sink in. Life for most was brutal and hard and most people were poor. The same goes for the rest of the west. The idea of going to another country to trade often by force was fairly normalcbut I know bad stuff happened and im not about to try and excuse that. Thank god there was major progress as the whole world got many times better in a relatively short time. Surprised he didnt mention cricket, I guess its not technological but imagine India without cricket. I'd miss it but you guys are crazy for it on another level.

to your question , Cement , like concrete ... also a vast amount of these inventions were from Scotland .

France actually hokds the honour of starting the industrial revolution when a factories inspector invented the screw winding used to precisely position work on lathes. They were not able to capitalise on this invention like their neighbours because of the french revolution.

This was a good video guys, thanks. I'm conflicted in the sense I can understand why people hate British people ( I'm Scottish) because of the brutality of how they achieved their goals, on the other I can understand and appreciate the contributions made that benefit humanity to this day, even improved upon inventions too. Maybe I'm biased, but to me, the union jack is called the butchers apron because of the blood it has on it in its name throughout history and don't feel pride in the flag, for me it's the saltire, again biased. There are so many more inventions across a broad spectrum of fields too, it's fascinating when you learn about them. I'm looking forward to the next video.

@nicklomas181

Ай бұрын

How do you feel about the english as people?

@KitsyX

Ай бұрын

I mean, you could potentially argue that there was less blood on it compared to other Empires (providing that you take into account the size they were able to achieve)... And there is also the blood of people worse than the Brits on it and don't forget the blood of Brits given to good causes... While the Brits, or rather some Brits, did some awful things, many have also done great things... And it's probably the same for most nations... The UK often had more chance to do both, based on how successful it was... Not that other nations weren't also similarly successful at certain points... France, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch... Probably a few others... Germany has done pretty well for itself at times... Russia and China... The British Empire had its issues and there were some horrible results... But amazing things arguably also happened... British people were some of the biggest transporters of slaves during the transatlantic slave trade... That said, Britain then turned against it, despite it being arguably potentially very profitable for them, then put their power towards ending slavery worldwide and turning the world against it, where before it was generally accepted as relatively normal, and they did it at great cost in money and lives... In the end, who the nation is now is probably most important, but oh well... Still, if we were to base things on the history, I think that the UK comes out fairly well overall, especially in context of the times and so on.

@shelleyphilcox4743

11 күн бұрын

@xander8559 There is irony in your views about the Union Jack and preference for the Saltire. I think perhaps you should take a deep dive into the history of Scotlands participation in empire, slavery, who the governors, traders and administrators were. I will gently remind you who were the driving force behind colonialism...the Stewart dynasty. Look at who gave the East India Company the power of an almost independent virtual state (Charles II) who was in power when the laws changed indenturement to chattel slavery (Charles II) who agitated Parliament to go to war with China over opium (Willoam Jardine of Jardine Matheson)? 20% of firms registered in London involved in slave trading were Scots. The largest per head proportion of compensation for slaves to owners went to Scotland, as was the largest single payout. The first 3 Givernor Generals of India were Scots. Over a third of Jamaicas plantations were Scots owned. Look up the Scottish regiments involved in the Indian Mutiny and the Zulu War....and how many were engaged in colonies across the empire. Know your own history of your own country. Another nice titbit.....James VI introduced the Anent Coalyers and Salters Act in Scotland in 1606. Very bad man indeed. The Act bound all miners to the mine and its owner for life and their children if they worked in the mine for just 1 day past the age of 12...in reality the children were almost bound from birth. The Bloody Code started under the Stewarts. James VII and Charles II also started the Royal African Company which traded slaves. James VI was the one who started colonialism in Ireland in earnest, with more Scots going to Ireland than English. Charles II was so despotic that he tried to rule with no Parliaments called, destroying the existing ruling culture of England since Magna Carta and it took 10 years of horrific Civil War and the Interegnum, killing 4% of the population before some semblance of stability and small curb on despotic absolute tyrants was restored. Its time Scotland and the Scots took responsibility for their own part in world history. The common man and woman with no property had no say, in Scotland or England or Wales or Ireland until the mid 19th century, and even then it was limited. However, if all of the English must carry the responsibility of previous generations in a wholly different world, then so must the Scots.

Very nice reaction. Brits have done a lot haven't they? I love the surprise when you realise British innovations effectively built the modern world. Then the Japanese miniaturised it and the Americans sold it for billions. Just a couple of additional points to make. The Iron Bridge is in ,appropriately, the town of Ironbridge in Shropshire. It is no longer used for vehicular traffic but is open for pedestrian use. I know, I've crossed it. It was built in 1779. India as you know it did not exist in 1700 (before the significant British and French presence) but was a collection of around 30 individual, largely antagonistic, petty kingdoms after the decline of the Mughal Empire after 1707. It was the British who , having disposed of the French presence, created a unified India. It was the British who outlawed thuggee and dacoitry in the period 1836 -1848. Organised criminal gangs were bad for business and it was always all about the trade. Think like this - in the 1770's Britain could send resources to fight the French/Dutch/traitors in the Thirteen colonies (USA) or to fight the French and local allies in India. The US was an economic backwater whilst India was 20-25% of global GDP. Where would you spend? You are both manifestly Sikh so your wife was safe from the practice of sati , banned in 1829. A cultural idol possibly .Barbaric and inhumane most certainly. I wont even go into slavery.

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

Every ills of Indian society you enumerated existed in earlier British society during its dark ages, it was our dark age, still is but finally i guess we are getting out. But it doesn't absolve your ancest*rs of the crimes in the past.

India wasn’t a country it was lots of warring factions until it was conquered and named India

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

You smoked and only read propaganda taught in British schools. Tommy try to read something Indians and Africans wrote about British

@YouSmokeChed

23 күн бұрын

@@ajaxjaiswal3442 India had a civilisation bit it was not a country this isn’t from propaganda I think the only person that has been brainwashed is you . Also the bengal famine was just extremely unfortunate, more could of been done but lots of effort was made considering we where in the middle of a war which saved more lives in the end it’s just a sad situation. India was more like USA before Europeans got there lots of factions vying for territory then the big daddy’s came along and unified it , in India’s case it was a corporation

the japanese and the canadians both did studys and found over half off all the inventions and innovations from the invention of the wheel to the computer half of everything would go to britain

India wasn't a country before the British. It was hundreds of waring areas.

@gauravrainck

22 күн бұрын

I pity your knowledge of Real Indian history ..

@user-xz6qk9wf9j

3 күн бұрын

Then enlighten me.

First off, he's an aussie. The brits didn't colonise 90% of the world, we didn't colonise Scandinavia, China, Russia, large parts of South America and big slabs of Africa. The car engine bit is wrong too. Big miss, it was a Brit who invented the laser

we are not a bad people,very friendly infact. don't judge a book by its cover,respect.

The British were no worse, & actually far better than most colonial powers around the world. India was backward by European standards before the British went there, riven with petty states ruled by tyrannical despots & always at war with each other, It was also ruled by the despotic & cruel Mughals etc. Most of the population were little more than slaves, & split into a strict devisive caste system. The British ended practices like Suttee, the burning of widows on their husbands funeral fires. They ended the petty wars, & introduced a British type legal & and administrative system, as well as the advances of modern technology. He missed out George Cayley, who worked out the principles of aerodynamics & flight, 1 hundred years before the Wright brothers made the first powered aircraft. That is because he couldn't find a motor for his gliders in the early 19th century, but he was working towards it. You can't blame all the British for what a few did in the past. All the other people that invaded India took what they could from it, & many people within the sub continent were cruel to each other. It wasn't the British that slaughtered millions at Partition, that was Hindu against Muslim violence, nothing to do with the British. The peoples of India did that themselves, because the different leaders, Jinhar etc, couldn't agree. Also, famines & epidemics were regular events throughout Indian history, which the Indian rulers themselves did little to assuage. At least the British vastly improved life in India, & gifted it Democratic institutions etc.

@sedekiman824

29 күн бұрын

Don't foget Thugee.

That bloke is an Aussie.

Okay, here's an odd one. Nearly every banana consumed in the western world (representing 47% of global banana cultivation), is a clone of a banana cultivated by Sir Joseph Paxton in the 1830's who named it the Cavendish Banana after his patron William Cavendish.

yes you were a country, but their influence left you a so much better one. like when the romans finished in Britain they left a legacy, which made Britain better. you learned something from the British as India is a thriving modern country now.

Let's just say "the modern world" was invented by the brits

@ajaxjaiswal3442

23 күн бұрын

And yes they still come to your shores, see the desperation??

Sorry guys India want a single country like we know today.

First Nuclear Power station , and my Dad and family who defended India From 1940 to 1947.

I put to you one way,if anyone stole stuff from indians or any other part of empire,was the rich people that did that,not the poor people of the uk you know the majority of the people.Like they been robbing us,treating us like slaves for 1000's of years,isbard kingdom brunel built over thousand bridges in india,i dont think is was a cut and dried as people said yes money was taken out.but who paid for the bridges,and other stuff to be built, you know new things cost alot to build now well they did then too,any money made by the company owners went to them,not to the poor of the uk.Yes we made mistakes but what nation hasnt made them,but poor people of india or any othe part of empire wasnt stole by the uk poor. we are not all like the people of the uk we dont own milllion of companys,lucky if had shoes on our feet. sorry for proper grammer or spellliing mistakes,look at british history like kids put up chimneys to clean them and down mines they are the real uk people,not the ones who fought most of uk battles! and got nothing much in return.not the ones in bentleys. sorry for proper grammer or spellliing mistakes

It's now confirmed that you are from Gujarat, it could be nice if you make a video speaking in gujarati

The British made India rich. They gave out loans at modest interest rates to Indians to start local businesses. This brought about commercial activity, banking, insurance, a stock market etc. Soon the wealthy Indians were travelling abroad with British empire, and a wealthy Indian merchant class developed.

@prp3231

22 күн бұрын

The UK invaded a poor country like India. A classic example where a millionaire thief goes to rob a house of the poor man.

Bad news travels fast and far. Good news crawls.

India was a great country even before the British empire arrived

@jasonward9429

12 күн бұрын

India wasn't a single country before the British arrived.

The way I look at it is, people forget the Romans were here in the UK for a few hundred years but I don't blame Italian people for anything that was done 2000 yrs ago at a time when it was always the powerful took over the weak. Iam not proud to be British, iam actually grateful.

India was the 12th largest economy in the world when it became independent.

Taxes from colonies did not go back to Britain to fund science and technology. Or indeed to fund anything in the UK done by the government. Of course there was looting of vsluables, but it wasn't economically important. There were basically five functions for colonies in the Empire. First prestige, this applied to all, the bigger it was the more power it had. Second strategic, this is where a colonies position was of military value, like Gibraltar. If a colony only had these two qualities, and many did, then they actually cost the British tax payer money to run them, most African colonies were loss making. The third was for settlement, obviously Australia etc. Fourth plantations, large scale commercial production of crops. No Brits no rubber plantations they developed those, and no Brits no tea grown in India, they stole seeds from China and developed them for Indian conditions. Finally trade, that was really what the Empire was for, a market for British goods, it was that part of it which contributed to the industrial revolution. So a bit more than Railways, imagine India with no tea and no cricket. Modern sport was essentially a British invension.

So much about how 'bad' the UK was is taught but not often the good stuff. Its weird because when it comes to 'bad' stuff EVERY Country has their 'dark' past! And when we see the direction Countries usually take some of the things the UK did were pretty exceptional and remarkable. The efforts and resources put in to stop the Slave Trade being one example. Most people know about the USA's contribution to that but few know that it started in the UK! There is a Video on KZread about it.

Im 60 now, But when i was younge i had a tea,s made. Made me a cuppa when it went off. They dont seam to be around now.

Great reaction as always ❤I like your point about the wealth: we have a country that's rich enough to support a top-class education system but, at the same time, a lot of the wealth was made at the expense of India especially. I think that the British Empire is too big a thing to be boiled down to either 'good' or 'bad' - it caused immeasurable suffering but also produced immeasurable good. I wonder how things would have gone without the British Empire. Would another country have done something similar or would history have been even more different? We can only speculate! On another note, I wonder if there's a good video on the history of mathematics? Both India and Britain have large roles in that! There must be a good one about Srinivasa Ramanujan - one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived and who came to Britain from India. Love you guys and hope you're well!! 😄

Transport: The Hover Craft.

@davidcopson5800

3 күн бұрын

He never floated that one.

The comments are very educational.

We also stopped slavery

Also note that land of Bharat also gave the greatest minds ever to grace the planet. The Buddha is widely known around the world. Other great minds were Shankaracharya, Ramanujan, Ramakrishna, Lord Chaitanya, Thyagraja, Guru Gobind Singhji and many others. These personalities elucidated ways to free the mind from material bondage and to find real bliss. The concept of Time and Space, the nature of the Universe, the nature of humans etc all taught in detail in ancient times. This ancient civilisation still exists today as it ever has, and will continue to do so while this colonial power and that colonial power comes and goes. What is real always survives while what is false is temporary.

wonders if your metal bridge was built by the Butterley company ?

Britain did a lot of bad but so did a lot of other countries the difference is Britain turned it around and did more good than bad but for some reason people like to cling onto the bad and keep reminding us of the bad while all at the same time still wanting to visit Britain or in many cases legally move and live in Britain and speak English. imo the good far outweighs the bad.

And they built things to last does that count ?

Another very informative video about British history by Black American Thomas Sowell is, "The True History Of Freedom Never Taught In Schools"

They stopped The Thuggee of India and they stopped wives being burned , alive , when thier husband passed away. it was a common practice in some parts back then . Know as : Sati . I think it still goes on in some places today .. But I cant be sure of that .

@prp3231

18 күн бұрын

What about the scandal involving The Church? Can you explain what these scandals are, please?

@grigorione7824

18 күн бұрын

@@prp3231 the church? what church are you speaking of ? Who was in control of this ' church ' at the time you want to know about ?

@prp3231

18 күн бұрын

@@grigorione7824 so no scandal has occurred in the church? Or have you just arrived from Mars?

@prp3231

18 күн бұрын

@@grigorione7824 alright, I will make it easy for you, look up "scandals involving the church." Then let me know what you found out please. I assume that on your planet Mars, Internet and news media are probably non existent so I forgive you about your stupid statement.

@grigorione7824

18 күн бұрын

@@prp3231 I didnt say that. Where did I say that ? What comment did you read that made you think i said that ? I assume you think I am a church type person. I am not.