{"id":16864,"date":"2020-06-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/06\/14\/why-britain-owes-reparations-to-india\/"},"modified":"2020-06-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T12:00:00","slug":"why-britain-owes-reparations-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/06\/14\/why-britain-owes-reparations-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Britain Owes Reparations to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/f7CW7S0zxv4\/maxresdefault.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>UNITED KINGDOM, July 14, 2015 (youtube): India&#8217;s share of the world economy when Britain arrived on its shores was 23%, by the time the British left it was down to below 4%. Why? Simply because India had been governed for the benefit of Britain. Britain&#8217;s rise for 200 years was financed by its deprivations in India and other colonies. Today&#8217;s Britains may not be responsible for some of those deprivations but many of today&#8217;s problems&#8211;including the persistence and in some cases the creation of ethnic, religious and racial tensions&#8211;were the direct result of the colonial experience. So, there is a moral debt that needs to be paid.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shashi Tharoor MP is an Indian politician currently serving as a member of parliament. The above passionate and witty speech was given at the Oxford Union and can be viewed in its entirety at &#8220;source&#8221; above. <\/p>\n<p>For more of Tharoor see: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, July 14, 2015 (youtube): India&#8217;s share of the world economy when Britain arrived on its shores was,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}