{"id":4495,"date":"2020-04-25T05:31:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2020-04-25T05:31:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:01:43","slug":"east-india-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/25\/east-india-company\/","title":{"rendered":"East India Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was watching this Video of Shashi Tharoor about British atrocities during 200 years of rule. After the video finished, Youtube suggested an hour-long video of his. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7CW7S0zxv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OB5ykS-_-CI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After watching the video, I learned many more things about their LOOT, robbery. I ended up buying his book title: the era of darkness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The great LOOT by East India Company in India.<br>book: the era of darkness by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShashiTharoor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShashiTharoor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VzpfAMrdt5\">pic.twitter.com\/VzpfAMrdt5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1253510511204765696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>India was not only robbed, made poor but made vulnerable on all the accounts. Britishers used us as slaves, soldiers, and sometimes proxies to fight among ourselves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could not finish the book because of the melancholy it gave me. I know it is past, but it&#8217;s inglorious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching this Video of Shashi Tharoor about British atrocities during 200 years of rule. After the video finished, Youtube suggested an hour-long video of his. After watching the video, I learned many more things about their LOOT, robbery. I ended up buying his book title: the era of darkness India was not only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/25\/east-india-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;East India Company&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}