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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Indian Subcontinent was leading the world in it’s GDP prior to British Colonization. More than 25% of the world’s GDP.

When the Brits were through looting, pillaging, enslaving, and genocide-ing it was 2%. They stole, in today’s value, upwards of 45 TRILLION. Money that the subcontinent is only now starting to climb back too.

Please use your Anglophile reasoning to exploit these numbers. I’m sure it makes you feel justified. Warm fuzzies for the Queen all around.

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Queen had nothing to do with this. Nothing.  Nor did an royal.  By the time this happened royals held no power.   And your numbers just don’t make any sense. No India never had that much economic power.  [/quote]

Perhaps you should crack open a real history book not just the one the Queen sent out to all households under the taxpayers dime.

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+100.[b] The queen's ancestors[/b] caused the death of 4-10 million Indians. Some would call it a genocide but of course, history is written by the victors so we don't call it that.
She could have changed things by [b]1) giving all the stolen jewels back[/b], 2) apologizing for all the atrocities [b]3) reparations.
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Do you understand that the British forced Indians to grow crops/produce resources for British mainland use, to further their industrial revolution, while India was dealing with intense famines? Indians were barred from growing food for their own use, in their own country.

She was an old lady with no power and lots of money, and her death makes no difference in my life now at all. I'd appreciate it if the media outlets would stop covering this so much. But I would have appreciated her memory more if she had behaved as a compassionate human being, and at least freaking APOLOGIZED for her forefathers' actions.

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Assuming we are still talking about how much the queen is to blame, what her ancestors did is not relevant.
Are you sure that she herself could have returned the jewels?  She had that authority?  And did she have the authority to make reparations happen?

People really seem to be mixing together what the country as a whole is responsible for, what the government is responsible for, what the historic monarchy was responsible for......and what this single woman did and did not do.[/quote]

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