Comments on: The return of the Raj http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/ Latest News, Breaking News, Pakistan News, World News, Business News, Science and Technology News , Entertainment News, Sports News, Cricket News Sat, 25 May 2013 10:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NASAH (USA) http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-95960 Thu, 03 May 2012 12:44:14 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-95960 Great piece Irfan Husain.
So these were the Indian pillars on which the Raj stood. An answer to my children's surprised questions as to how on earth an expeditionary force of 5 thousand British soldiers ruled 400 million Indians for 150 years from a distance of 7 thousand miles on steamers that took one month to travel to India from a bunch of miniscule British Isles.

]]> By: Omar http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94336 Tue, 01 May 2012 02:12:39 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94336 spectacular , as always

]]> By: Cyrus Howell http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94246 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:48:38 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94246 Nadir Shah of Persia brought his army down through Afghanistan and Northwest India to sack Delhi in 1739. The Mogul rulers of India asked for the protection of the British. A British governor general was not appointed until 1773.
Although the Persians were gone their Persian allies, the raiders of Northwest India were still active. For these intervening 30 years in the British Crown, the East India Company and Indian rulers were hammering out a deal. Who were the British ministers going to deal with? The Untouchables?

]]> By: Ali Sheriff http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94171 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:30:03 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94171 We Pakistanis (and Indians) are a tragically unusual lot. I can't think of any other formerly colonized nation that glorifies the era of British imperialism as we do. What an insult to our forebears who were hanged from trees, slaughtered on the battlefields, humiliated, treated as slaves in their own country and robbed bone dry by the Raj. Dawn has earned a well-deserved reputation in the world as a fair and objective newspaper. In keeping with this reputation, when will it print articles chronicling the atrocities and grand dacoity of the British in India? Or articles glorifying the age of Islamic flowering in India; or evoking the memories of the independence movement for which our own ancestors gave impossible sacrifices (that we squandered in just 25 years)?

]]> By: Venkata Appa Rao http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94169 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:22:56 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94169 My Dear Mr Irfan you are gifted. what ever subject you write on you produce a master piece. I am an ardent fan of yours may be one among many, since your articles appear in deccan chronicle of Hyderabad capital of Andhra pradesh, India. I follow you by reading DAWN daily. May you live long and carry on with your great work.

]]> By: Uzma http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94164 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:07:44 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94164 Wonderful article. Have ordered Basu's book.

]]> By: Reader http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94161 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:06:11 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94161 Thanks. Just downloaded this book on my kindle :)

]]> By: Suresh http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94108 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:38:23 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94108 …and you complain what people simply envy.."hud hoti hai bhai!"

]]> By: TheChimera http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94076 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:26:35 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94076 Mr. Husain

Being a through and through anglophile, one nostalgic for The Raj and one proud of our British heritage, I thouroughly enjoyed your article. We seldom pay tribute the great people who have done so much for us

]]> By: Shad http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/the-return-of-the-raj/comment-page-1/#comment-94043 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:36:15 +0000 http://dawn.com/?p=2772430#comment-94043 Very informative Irfan many thanks. Glad you enjoyed your trip to Scotland. As a "Scottish Pakistani", it was good to learn more about Scottish history…

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