British India Quotes

“If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group of men to distrust someone for no reason other than that he was one of them?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“With the absorption of each native state, the (East India) company official John Sullivan observed in 1840s: "The little court disappears--the capital decays--trade languishes--the capital decays--the people are impoverished--the Englishman flourishes, and acts like a sponge, drawing up riches from the banks of the Ganges, and squeezing them down upon the banks of the Thames.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“Writing fiction is a respectable way of fibbing for a living—and enjoying it!
-Anne George”
― Anne George, Love and Mutiny: Tales from British India

“हमारी जीवन शैली, आज तक अंग्रेजों से प्रभावित हैं ।
अंग्रेजों ने सूर्योदय के देश को सूर्यास्त का उत्सव मनाने वाले देश में तब्दील कर दिया ।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“India has never cost England one centime. it paid back What it cost. India provides a livelihood for all benjamins of English families.”
― Leopold II

“A commentator had correctly stated that Queen Victoria was essentially a drug lord; like a turbo-charged Dawood Ibrahim with a better headdress.”
― Amish Tripathi, Immortal India: Articles and Speeches by Amish