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Anthropologist & author • Writing in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, AJE • Post-development & political ecology • A world for the many, not the few

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    Jason Hickel‏Verified account @jasonhickel Jan 3

    I was thrilled to learn that this was Al Jazeera's most-read piece in 2018. It's a horrifying story that needs to be told, in these times more than ever.https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html …

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      2. Elissa Milne‏ @ElissaMilne Jan 3
        Replying to @jasonhickel @NAJ562

        Was this not widely known already? What did people think colonialism was all about, if not for the enrichment of the colonialising nation? This basic knowledge is presented as groundbreaking - are so many readers so ignorant?

        2 replies . 0 retweets 17 likes
      3. Gurukarm Kaur‏ @karma_musings Jan 3
        Replying to @ElissaMilne @jasonhickel @NAJ562

        Unfortunately, yes to your last. #SadStateOfUSEducation amongst other reasons. #HistoryIsWrittenByTheVictors

        2 replies . 1 retweet 4 likes
      4. Elissa Milne‏ @ElissaMilne Jan 3
        Replying to @karma_musings @jasonhickel @NAJ562

        But the US knows nothing of anything much at all. I'm talking about everyone else. Brits know this. Anyone in the Commonwealth knows this. Anyone in a colonised nation knows this....

        3 replies . 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Christopher Mardell‏ @chrismardell Jan 3
        Replying to @ElissaMilne @karma_musings and

        From what I've heard the truth about colonial history is not generally taught in UK schools. So when people see and judge immigrants, they don't consider that their own countrymen/relatives invaded/plundered almost every country on the planet.

        1 reply . 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Elissa Milne‏ @ElissaMilne Jan 3
        Replying to @chrismardell @karma_musings and

        That was certainly my impression when I lived there 30 years ago!

        0 replies . 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. C Cawley‏ @FreeofIdeology Jan 3
        Replying to @jasonhickel @Alanlsg

        Very very old news. That is what Empires do. The American commercial Empire just took over from the British Empire in the 20th century. It is doing exactly the same thing. In due course the Chinese will take over. Not good, but it happens. Why the surprise?

        3 replies . 2 retweets 4 likes
      3. Alan Bowman‏ @Alanlsg Jan 3
        Replying to @FreeofIdeology @jasonhickel

        No surprise Charles and Happy New Year to You and Yours and to Everyone 😀

        1 reply . 0 retweets 1 like
      4. C Cawley‏ @FreeofIdeology Jan 3
        Replying to @Alanlsg @jasonhickel

        Happy New Year to you too

        0 replies . 1 retweet 1 like
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      1. Caspar Henderson‏ @casparhenderson Jan 3
        Replying to @jasonhickel

        But global Britain! But buccaneering spirit! But leading the world on the basis of values!

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      2. Trudells #GTTO  🖐‏ @stayontheleft Jan 3
        Replying to @jasonhickel

        i cant read this without feeling utter shame - where did the money end up ? who profited ? dont tell me - the aristocracy.

        1 reply . 3 retweets 4 likes
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      2. vineeth nair‏ @vineethnair8 Jan 3
        Replying to @jasonhickel

        Maybe you should coauthor a book with Sashi Tharoor ..... much of the stuff you discover about the British rule in India wld make the Jewish genocide seem like some fairy tale!

        2 replies . 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Elissa Milne‏ @ElissaMilne Jan 3
        Replying to @vineethnair8 @jasonhickel

        Since when is the industrialised attempt to execute the humiliation, dehumanization, and then eradication of millions of people a fairy tale? This is an absolutely terrible way to make what point you thought you might be making...

        1 reply . 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. vineeth nair‏ @vineethnair8 Jan 3
        Replying to @ElissaMilne @jasonhickel

        Maybe I was not articulate enough.... pls try and read a bit of history to figure of how many million Indians were forced in starvation deaths by the British who plundered a country for 100 years and built their empire .https://youtu.be/f7CW7S0zxv4 

        1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Elissa Milne‏ @ElissaMilne Jan 3
        Replying to @vineethnair8 @jasonhickel

        Yes, I'm aware of the horrific impact of British rule of India. This is not about not being articulate, it's about deciding to say that the differently horrific Holocaust might be a fairy tale. In what parallel universe does that even begin to make sense?

        1 reply . 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Elissa Milne‏ @ElissaMilne Jan 3
        Replying to @ElissaMilne @vineethnair8 @jasonhickel

        Also: please understand that starving people was not something the British Empire reserved for India; Irish Potato Famine? more of the same. It was a colonial empire, and that's what they do - plunder the resources of the land they invade, leave behind infrastructure/language.

        1 reply . 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. vineeth nair‏ @vineethnair8 Jan 3
        Replying to @ElissaMilne @jasonhickel

        Point taken Elissa .... apologies... not an apt reference I admit.

        0 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Bahujan Samaj [Not political party]‏ @bahujansamaj Jan 3
        Replying to @jasonhickel @ashokkmrsingh

        No mainstream articles yet on how India's higher castes did the same to India's lower castes. And doubt many would read it either as doesn't fit convenience.

        1 reply . 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Linda Aizlewood‏ @LindaAizlewood Jan 4
        Replying to @bahujansamaj @jasonhickel @ashokkmrsingh

        2 wrongs don't make a right

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