Since you said you have no intention to defend the Raj, I take the intention of your post to be that the Chinese occupation of Tibet is more cruel than the British occupation /colonization of India. I have no intentions of arguing against such a view as yours in this regard. 

Effect of Raj on Indian langages is there to see for everyone. Those who argue in favor of Raj might bring in the benefits the knowledge of English is giving to the Indian migrants to English speaking countries. But the adverse effect that rule had on Indian languages is there to be seen now. 

Apart from these, the ill effects of colonization, attempts to decolonize during and after colonization by the colonized countries etc. are worldwide phenomena and are not limited to India and are well studied rigorously during after colonization. There is no need to harp in favor or against that now.    

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com> wrote:
Without the slightest intention to defend the Raj, I think that some familiarity with the Chinese occupation of Tibet would convince you that your comparison is not a propos. I do not intend to catalog the differences, but would ask you in the very first place to familiarize yourself with Chinese policy toward the Tibetan language, and to compare that with the Raj's attitude toward Indian languages. (I leave it to you to make further comparisons to prison camps, extra-judicial executions, wholesale destruction of sacred and cultural sites, etc etc etc).

Jonathan Silk

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Similar to China 'liberated' Tibet and made it 'prosperous' and so on. 

Naive writing written under the delusion of contesting professional work on the subject. 

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Interesting article.
Howard

https://thewire.in/118218/personal-rejoinder-british-raj-haters-masque
rading-historians/

A Personal Rejoinder to British Raj-Haters Masquerading as Historians
BY ZAREER MASANI

>From liberal laws to educational institutions to infrastructure, the
British Raj contributed a lot to India.




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