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A good history of this episode for the general reader is Christopher Hibbert's "The Great Mutiny: India, 1857" which lays out the exploitation and indignity suffered by the Indians at the hands of the decadent East India Co. British that led to what Marx called India's War of Independence. A colonialist regime that had nothing "enlightened" about it. > Karl Marx followed the Great Indian Rebellion closely. While he acknowledged > and decried the excesses of the rebels, he declared these were 'only the > reflex, in a concentrated form, of England's own conduct in India.' In other > words, Marx, one of history's more famous atheists, stood firmly with the > 'ignorant' sepoys against their 'enlightened' opponents. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
