By: Ganesh Arnaal
At their peak the number of Britishers in India was 3,00,000 ( three Lakhs) and the Indian population was 33,00,00,000 (thirty-three crores). A ratio of 1100 Indians to every Britisher.
How can one man defeat 1100 people opposed to him and rule over them? Clearly there were many Indians like the Police, the Indian Civil Services (ICS), the petty clerks in the Government, and the judges who took their orders and were implementing the laws and rules laid down by the British. When our people were the front end for the British rule, it was very difficult for the average citizen to rebel against or even question the rulers.
It was easy for the British to spread the ‘memes’ they wanted to propagate viz. the White man’s burden, British valour, fair play (cricket and its literature was very useful to prove the point), English literature and its superiority (once Macaulay shut the Sanskrit Path Shalas it was easy to establish the superiority of English), problems with Hindu society like Sati (though very very rare and entirely voluntary), caste system etc.
Similarly, now you have the sepoys talking to us in ‘third person’, and spreading whatever ‘memes’ they want about the inferiority of India and the superiority of the West.
In the language of mergers and acquisitions, I would say that the takeover of India by the British is the biggest Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) ever in the history of the world.
We know the British Equity was just 3 lakh people and the ICS, the Police, the judiciary making up the debt. It would be instructive if someone were to research to establish the number of Indian Sepoys working for the British.
And, we may add, it would be equally interesting and instructive if someone were to research today to find out the number of Indian Sepoys and counting them by their names who are working for the Western interests in free India of 2016!
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