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Photo: The mother and father of all words. Lafzon ki ma-bap! From Hobson-Jobson (A Glossary of Colloquial...
5:54 AM Mar 30th
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Photo: Sadly, the rest, as they say, is history. (A full-page print ad by AIG from 2002)
10:43 AM Feb 26th
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Photo: The kind of books banned in India 80 years ago that Mr. Ghandi [sic] used to read.
10:40 AM Feb 26th
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Photo: Never mind the falling rain. Time to puckerow the train. ___________________________ “Fanny, I am...
7:52 AM Feb 16th
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Photo: “Hence all sepoys were Pandies, and ever will be so called” From Hobson-Jobson.
12:19 PM Feb 9th
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Misogyny. Also why Nietzsche was an asshole. - The text below was written less than 100 years ago when women...
8:24 AM Feb 3rd
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"That the Mediterranean peoples are morally below the races of northern Europe is as certain as any..."
6:03 PM Feb 1st
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Photo: “Corporations are people.” Even before Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said it, this...
4:20 PM Jan 25th
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Photo: “How the Bengalese are told the news” While not misguided, this entry in a popular magazine contains...
7:40 AM Jan 14th
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Photo: Lord Curzon, being worshiped by a Hindu woman, presumably representing India.He is eating rice and...
7:18 AM Jan 14th
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Photo: Lord Curzon as Varaha, the third Avatar of the Hindu god Krishna slaying the demon, Bankruptcy. It...
7:08 AM Jan 14th
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Photo: A math question from homework handed out to third-graders at a school in Georgia… in 2012. Source:...
5:17 PM Jan 9th
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Photo: This is probably the most virulently-racist pseudoscience I’ve seen in a while. Phrenology was used...
9:28 AM Dec 29th, 2011
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"An indifference to life, and a love of cruelty for cruelty’s sake, are common characteristics of most..."
8:56 AM Dec 29th, 2011
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An imperialist soliloquy: or why it is dangerous to educate the natives - “It is a very serious condition...
6:51 AM Dec 27th, 2011
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The following in a except from an essay published in 1886 which asserts the British right to rule India. ›...
6:48 AM Dec 27th, 2011
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How to skin a tiger - “No time should be lost when a tiger has been secured in removing his skin, else the...
3:48 PM Dec 26th, 2011
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Photo: “The Great Indian Alterative Tonic” from The Times of India, Bombay (1875).
3:35 PM Dec 26th, 2011
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"You will find very few Englishmen who have not got an instinctive aversion for the ordinary native of..."
9:50 AM Dec 26th, 2011
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Photo: Lord Curzon as Sita, the wife of the Hindu god Rama, about to undergo a fiery ordeal to prove his...
9:28 AM Dec 26th, 2011
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