9 British crimes against Indians during the colonial era

New Delhi, 7th September 2023: The “divide and rule” policy, also known as “divide and conquer, was a strategy employed by the

British colonial administration in various parts of their empire, including India. The goal of this policy was to maintain control over a

diverse and often restive population by creating divisions and conflicts among different groups, thereby weakening any unified

opposition to British rule.

Here are some of the ways the British implemented this policy:

An online petition has been launched to remove Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Churchill College, because she tweeted that “white lives don’t matter” and called to “abolish whiteness”. Not only did the university not remove her, but they gave Gopal a promotion.

Royal Mail data from 2012 shows there were 1,547 Indian sub-postmasters and agents in England and Wales, 401 were Pakistani, nine were Black African, and 3,220 were white British.
Last year, the Post Office apologised after it was revealed it had used racist terms to describe wrongly investigated postmasters as part of the Horizon IT scandal.
A document showed Post Office had used terms like “Chinese/Japanese types”, “dark-skinned European types”, and “Negroid types”.

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