In the current thread, I never said anything about deferring to anyone with greater knowledge of India, though I would do that. (I was talking about PNG.) And I don't get what you're saying about "reflexivity." What does that mean in prose?
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:15 PM, ravi <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 16, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Jim Devine wrote: >> >> One big problem with the British in India (and Ulster and Palestine…) >> was that they _created_ a lot of those divisions (or reinforced and >> deepened the existing divisions) and then used them to justify their >> rule. I don’t know if they created divisions within PNG as much as in >> India. After all, the country was split between a lot of ethnic groups >> in relatively isolated small territories before the Brits and other >> Europeans invaded. > > > > Say what? Where's Ian with his reflexivity alert? ;-) > > (okay, I admit I snipped out the part where JD says he defers to those with > greater knowledge of India or words to that effect). > > --ravi > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
