Imperialism and colonialism as matters of contestation and debate have to a large extent withdrawn from our mental world in India. This is not because their inequities are forgotten or overlooked, rather there is a consensus around their exploitative, racist and unjust quality which is taken as a given—explaining the absence of debate. In Britain however, the idea of empire as something benevolent is persistent. Nostalgic and celebratory accounts of imperialism abound.
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