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| Narendra Modi endorses Britain paying damages to India for colonial rule |
| Dillí, 25.07.2015 |
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| Indian prime minister praises opposition MP Shashi Tharoor’s call for UK to pay compensation for centuries of economic destruction
Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, has praised an opposition politician who called for Britain to make reparations to India for the damage done during 200 years of colonial rule in a speech at Oxford University.
A video clip of Shashi Tharoor, an author and well-known parliamentarian from the centre-left Congress party, making an impassioned argument in favour of Britain providing India financial compensation for centuries of economic destruction and extraction became a hit on social media after the Oxford Union debating society posted it online last week.
“Tharoor’s speech reflected the feelings of patriotic Indians on the issue and showed what impression one can leave with effective arguments by saying the right things at the right place,” Modi said at an event in New Delhi’s parliament on Thursday.
The 15-minute video of Tharoor’s speech has been viewed more than 1.5m times on YouTube and was widely reported in the Indian press.
The Indian Express newspaper described the speech as “brilliant” while the Press Trust of India, a nationwide news agency, said Tharoor’s argument “gelled with the feelings of patriotic Indians”.
“Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its depradations in India … We paid for our own oppression … It’s a bit rich to impress, maim, kill, torture and repress and then celebrate democracy at the end of it,” Tharoor said in the debate in May.
The former United Nations under secretary general and author argued that Indians had “literally paid for [their] own oppression”, as by the end of the 19th century they were the world’s biggest purchasers of British goods, as well as providing employment and salaries. India’s share of the world economy had gone from 27% to 4%, Tharoor said.
India gained independence from Britain in 1947 after years of bitter campaigning and confrontation.
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