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  1. Photo: The mother and father of all words. Lafzon ki ma-bap! From Hobson-Jobson (A Glossary of Colloquial... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwIoBles
  2. Photo: Sadly, the rest, as they say, is history. (A full-page print ad by AIG from 2002) tmblr.co/ZTSrKwH4NqrJ
  3. Photo: The kind of books banned in India 80 years ago that Mr. Ghandi [sic] used to read. tmblr.co/ZTSrKwH4N5Jl
  4. Photo: Never mind the falling rain. Time to puckerow the train. ___________________________ “Fanny, I am... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwGVpbkF
  5. Photo: “Hence all sepoys were Pandies, and ever will be so called” From Hobson-Jobson. tmblr.co/ZTSrKwG8yTqq
  6. Misogyny. Also why Nietzsche was an asshole. - The text below was written less than 100 years ago when women... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwFp-8ss
  7. "That the Mediterranean peoples are morally below the races of northern Europe is as certain as any..." tmblr.co/ZTSrKwFl9sJL
  8. Photo: “Corporations are people.” Even before Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said it, this... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwFMyylT
  9. Photo: “How the Bengalese are told the news” While not misguided, this entry in a popular magazine contains... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwElUoFV
  10. Photo: Lord Curzon, being worshiped by a Hindu woman, presumably representing India.He is eating rice and... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwElRk7X
  11. Photo: Lord Curzon as Varaha, the third Avatar of the Hindu god Krishna slaying the demon, Bankruptcy. It... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwElQIU2
  12. Photo: A math question from homework handed out to third-graders at a school in Georgia… in 2012. Source:... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwEXWEq2
  13. Photo: This is probably the most virulently-racist pseudoscience I’ve seen in a while. Phrenology was used... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDyw877
  14. "An indifference to life, and a love of cruelty for cruelty’s sake, are common characteristics of most..." tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDyqkml
  15. An imperialist soliloquy: or why it is dangerous to educate the natives - “It is a very serious condition... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDruCxF
  16. The following in a except from an essay published in 1886 which asserts the British right to rule India. ›... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDrts7g
  17. How to skin a tiger - “No time should be lost when a tiger has been secured in removing his skin, else the... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDq4fbt
  18. Photo: “The Great Indian Alterative Tonic” from The Times of India, Bombay (1875). tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDq2Mqx
  19. "You will find very few Englishmen who have not got an instinctive aversion for the ordinary native of..." tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDpAX4b
  20. Photo: Lord Curzon as Sita, the wife of the Hindu god Rama, about to undergo a fiery ordeal to prove his... tmblr.co/ZTSrKwDp7Fnk