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Mal 🇿🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The sack, rape, desecration and murder of #empire ...:

* The 1770 #Bengali famine, designed by the #EastIndiaCompany to destroy the local #cotton #fabric industry and invent a poisonous drug trade in its place.
* The looting and burning of the #OldSummerPalace near #Beijing, ordered by the same #Elgin who chopped up the #Parthenon.
* The destruction of the #Irish language through imperial policy, as dramatised in #BrianFriel 's #Translations (a magnificent and ambiguous play, describing linguistic polarisation, but not itself partisan).
* Labour #racism and engineered #alcoholism in #SouthAfrican #gold mines, from the 19th Century, with repercussions even until now - #ZamaZama mining is its modern evolution.

None of this is forgotten. Let it never be forgotten.

kriykat

The Empire Never Died
consortiumnews.com/2025/05/22/
Challenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire, writes Mark Curtis. By Mark Curtis Declassified U.K. There’s long been a debate over whether Britain’s Empire — the largest…
#Politics #Africa #Australia #CivilRights #Colonialism #Commentary #Cyprus #HumanRights #Israel #Kenya #Palestine #UnitedKingdon #WarCrimes #Bp #BritishAntarcticTerritory(bat) #BritishCommonwealth #CarolineElkins #ChagosIslands #Commonwe #CorporateTaxHavenIndex #Decolonization #EastIndiaCompany #FalklandsWar #Gibraltar #JasonHickel #MarkCurtis #Mauritius #MikeDavis #RafAkrotiri #ShellOil #SpecialCommitteeOnDecolonisation #TaxJusticeNetwork(tjn)

Consortium News · The Empire Never DiedChallenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire, writes Mark Curtis. By Mark Curtis Declassified U.K. There’s long been a debate over whether Britain’s Empire — the largest the world has ever known — was
NapelsGeel

„Dass wir uns noch immer Geschichten vom Fortschritt aufbinden lassen, von der technischen Bezähmung der Natur und vom Heldentum der Gewinnmaximierung ist eine tödliche Verkennung unserer aktuellen Lage in unserem vom Menschen dominierten Zeitalter.“ Amitav Ghosh #colonialism #opioids #bigpharma #eastindiacompany #china
spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/ra

DER SPIEGEL · »Rauch und Asche« von Amitav Ghosh: Der erste Narco-StaatBy Eva Horn
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain**

“_This article shows that fiscal capacity was not created only by government bureaucracies: the ‘company-state at home’ model presented here complements the narrative of the ‘fiscal-military state’ by showing that much fiscal revenue from trade was realized through the action of the English East India Company (EIC). Lacking the capacity to enact exhaustive laws, carry out complex calculations, or effectively manage a large bureaucracy, the English state relied on the administrative capacity of the EIC to collect customs on the East Indies trade._”

Karolina Hutková, Ernesto Dal Bó, Lukas Leucht, Noam Yuchtman, Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf009, doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf009.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #India #EastIndiaCompany #C18th #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@MoiraEve

#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics

(5/n)

... [#Dutch?] #EastIndiaCompany and the #French #EastIndiaCompany. Restrictions on where finished goods could be purchased 👉 led in many cases to burdensome high prices for those goods.👈

👉 Commercial rivalry tended to result in military rivalry as well, notably during the Anglo-Dutch Wars.👈 Colonists seeking to get around the trade restrictions mandated by #mercantilism 2) resorted to...

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the roamer

@samuelpepys

Golly. We witness Sam's part in subjecting India to British rule.

In the Charter Act from April 1661, Charles II affirmed and extended the East India Company's state-like rights in India, preparing the later subjection of the subcontinent to British rule.

Here, in December 1661, a contract is signed between the EIC and the King. And it's our Sam who signs the deal in the King's name! Wow.

Sadly I can't find any details on the December '61 contract.

#Pepys #EastIndiaCompany

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **British Identity Within the Indian Setting in Zoffany’s Portraits**

Rose Akcan

_"Palmer and Bakhsh’s relationship was not unique in the time of East India Company representatives taking over Indian provinces. The boundaries between enslaved people and servants were contested in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as masters struggled to differentiate between these roles."_

🔗 northwesternartreview.org/arti

#History #Histodon #Histodons #EastIndiaCompany #Art #Portraits #Culture #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #India #Asia #Identity #Colonialism @histodon @histodons

Northwestern Art ReviewBritish Identity Within the Indian Setting in Zoffany’s Portraits — Northwestern Art ReviewRose Akcan
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