[mark_l_watson]

You might want to check that. We recently saw the new documentary movie on Ayurvedic food and eating. They had a section on how the British destroyed the schools (including Ayurveda schools) and generally used maiming and other extreme punishments.

I am not picking on the English, all empires do really rotten stuff. I can’t think of one exception.

[raincom]

I agree with you. When you look at postcolonial arguments, they make it sound as if whatever sins we see in India is due to British colonialism. However, the same postcolonial scholars are silent on the Islamic colonialism.