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September 13, 2018
The Thugs were one such group that got so badly maligned via atrocity literature that their name has entered the English language
The book shows how the dowry extortions that have become so common in middle-class India today, were actually started when women's traditional property rights were taken away by the British through convoluted logic.
Claims of atrocities against workers were used to outlaw various Indian industries, including textiles and steelmaking, in which India had a lead over Britain.
According to British author William Digby, between 1757 and 1812, the inflow of profits from India into Britain was estimated at between 500 million pounds and 1 billion pounds.7 The value of this sum in today's purchasing power would be over a trillion dollars.
In parallel, the Church evangelists working in South India constructed a Dravidian race identity. They de-linked Tamil culture from its pan-Indian cultural matrix, and claimed that its spirituality was closer to Christianity than to the Aryan North Indian culture.
