true. nothng collapsed, they changed modus operandi. Now they bribe countries' secret police, who runs the governments around the world by terrorist activity including using the judiciary and psychiatry as weapons of repression, torture and extermination. They print money so they got a virtual infinite supply. As a result countries occupy themselves, and run fake deficits as national debts to cover up one form of exploitation, besides the typical ruining of local economy as it happened in India and East Europe. This operates pretty much as the insolvency / liquidation mafia internally in every country, they bankrupt a business then sell it off for scrap to their criminal friends. Expropriated people become cheap labor force, just as Marx said. In short the new invasion plan is: 1. Bribery; 2. assasination if Bribery fails; 3. military invasion under false pretext if assasinations and Bribery fails, and installment of a pupper regime ... only idiots would believe anyone gives up power, or that anyone gains power. Power is already owned and is only invested, therefore whoever owns anything is owned by a higher tier of power mongers, ultimately a cartel of banks, governments and corporations, a.k.a. NATO today, a feudal court around USA
It is true the Dravidian people of the South are complaning about the attempts of the goons of hendutva/rss /bjp from the North to colonise them by imposing the hendi language and the cruel for of henduism practiced in the North ,the son of CM of Tamil Nadu compare sanatan dharma to the dengue...love that brave son of the Tamil people .perhaps it is time for the Dravidian people to get divorce from endia and create their own country...the Dravida Nadu...
Vijay is an amazing educator, historian and journalist. Thank You for all your contributions to help us to understand the history and the truth on what is going on in this trouble world.
Respected, I am 70 + from Pakistan. British Raj greatest success was 1) They made us Mental Slaves 2) The policy of Divide and Rule still (May be In more worse condition) exist in subcontinent. The Rulers are following the same pattern. If you Rationally think, after 75 years is still the way of Governance. I don't know how much Time is required to eliminate this mindset.
Indians helped the British, and even now if you try to learn Hindi a lot of Indians say your wasting your time, Indians can’t even agree on the common language, where is the Sanskritized Hindi. Indias only hope are the five god technologies: nuclear fusion, super ai, bci, replicators, quantum computer.
i 1000% agree with you sir, you summed up this sub-continents biggest problem in just one sentence.. i wish more people, especially those in power, understood it...our mental slavery of the west/white world is devastating us, and at the same time, it is giving them power over us...
I'm highly obliged for you and who are ready to accept the truth. They developed ' Regulated Qualified Slavery' , instead of physical occupation of land, they started importing ( as immigration) Doctors, Technologies and according to their needs. These kind of Slavery Engulfed the whole planet. They have become Lords. They have become Enterpeuners and we are highly/ low paid Employees. We Glorify our employment.
It’s not only British Raj We have tendency to blame others. Jinnah was an optimist not a blackmailer like so called Saint Gandhi. Did British told us that some people are less human than others. Pakistanis are majorly Muslims and still they practice all brahmnical traditions of purity impurity and caste related regressive behaviours are ingrained in their everyday life / beliefs. Did British created and imposed this caste system. Keep whining
An important point is that Yugoslavia no longer exists because the US-led NATO bombed it off face the face of the earth. The leaders of the countries involved have never been held to account.
Michael parenti, talked about this in one of his criticism of the west, the US and NATO. He goes, into detail, how the west destroyed Yugoslavia and why, they did it.
Vijay is a decent historian but dignity doesn't come out of thin air. Chinese peasantry saw itself as the agents of change. They actively shaped the society through their organization of communes with the support and guidance of the communist party. They had ownership over their means of production which made them the agents of change which brought them dignity. Dignity isn't an abstract phenomenon. It is material and as Fanon said, for the peasants it comes from the land.
And where is that Chinese dignity right now? Where is Chinese peasantry now? Do they onw their means of production? Hell they don't even get any social benefits at all, so what kind of communism is China following? The one where country is ruled by dictators, and people don't get social benefits and the Market is ruled by businesses. 🤡🤡
In India and Pakistan the peasants and low caste public have accepted their position and are revering the high castes ´ majority of the population thinks that they are less human than others this mindset is so so ingrained 😢😢😢😢
@@TheArtofWarChinaIndia completed 75 year's of independence not 200 or 2000 years India has highest arable ,all types of soil & produce all kind of agri commodities USA completed 248 years of independent empire to reach top position.
@@sheevpalps3846 The average Indian has an IQ of 76. Vijay sounds like he has an IQ of 160. Statistically that would make him one in a million for India.
@@blcheah2672Such kind of people are even rare in China. Maybe 1 in a 100 million. That would be just 140 people as smart as Prashad in China. Dont ever confuse Chinese people to be smart. They are still under slavery of CCP. They cannot think one bit.
Do you think a 'slave' will hide, for years, under the wings of USSR for aggressive acts that USA thinks it has a monopoly on? @peanut0brain You want peace? Give something. India terrified your brain. Stop begging, but give something. This is what terrified you. 1947 Annexation of Kashmir 1948 Annexation of Hyderabad 1948 Annexation of Junagadh 1949 Annexation of Manipur 1949 Annexation of Tripura 1951 Annexation of South Tibet 1951 Nagaland plebiscite - 99.9% of the Nagas wanted independence from India 1961 Annexation of Goa 1962 Annexation of Kalapani, Nepal 1962 Aggression against China 1971 Annexation of Turtuk, Pakistan 1972 Annexation of Tin Bigha, Bangladesh 1975 Annexation of Sikkim (the whole country) 1983 (Aborted) Attempted invasion of Mauritius 1990 (Failed) Attempted annexation of Bhutan 2006 Annexation of Duars, Bhutan 2013 Annexation of Moreh, Myanma
As usual, this sort of educational information from Mr Prashad, preeminent historian and journalist, should be on mainstream channels, discussed and viewed by millions. Then western imperial hegemony would end! Sadly, it is not. Thank you again for sharing your deep knowledge in history and current geopolitical realities!👋👋👋👋
This kind of woke leftist propaganda most definitely should not be on these platforms. He is an apologist for XI and engages is irrational emotional attacks on most asians for standing up to Xi's aggression against the rest of the asia and the world.
*It's the lines "divide and rule" once drew, which linger on long after the empires have left.* These "lines" are not only on the maps, but they also persist in the heads of following generations. *You can see these effects of imperialism having long-term effects in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, or on the Indian subcontinent.* The "divide" between Hindus and Muslims in India today, was once fostered and deepened by the British Empire, as a "divide and rule"-strategy of top-down power.
Where is the evidence that there is a divide between nonmuslims and muslims in India? Please don't trust woke leftist wacko sources. Indian muslims might be the most liberal muslims in the world. And there Indian muslims and Indian nonmuslims are united against conservative sunni islamists.
@@biggpicture2930 More precisely the English imperialists backed islamists against liberal muslims. Nonmuslims in asia generally sided with the liberal muslims.
Absolutely correct. Even today, after 75 years of independence, India is a sophisticated and decent slaves of west colonialism. The west cleverly created UN, WTO, WHO etc. to impose its dictum on erstwhile colonies to keep them so. With all the wherewithal India obediently submitted to this.
You have no idea what you are writing about. India is the world's fastest growing economy and will soon have to contribute greatly to most international institutions to keep them viable.
Being an Indian saying this, there is a rapid increase in algorithmic views of reaction channel content via YT like social media platforms, where reaction channels reacts on various things of and about India/Indian by foreigners from far west and also that by other indian subcontinent based foreigners, IS ALSO A GOOD EXAMPLE, the post colonial effect and TOXIC VALIDATION SEEKING MINDSET, indians developing.
India needs its own social media platform like China. The information space is another war front. Countries that don’t own their own information space are colonized by the ones countries that do.
@@biggpicture2930 Vijay is anti Indian and backs India's enemies (Pres Xi and sunni islamists and Pakistani army and the global woke movement) India--even more than the US--has a large group of intellectuals who hate their country, blame the world's problems on their own country, and want to bring their country down.
He is only partly right and got a few things wrong. Most importantly, he hasn't covered the main point. It wasn't about dignity so much but more about being truly independent from the American-led five-eye imperialist system. That gives an independent nation and its people the opportunity to have dignity, not the other way around. Plus, being independent means you can create and develop policies and projects to grow and develop their nation rather than being sabotaged by the US-led imperialist western elements under its zero-sum-game imperialist system.
You are wrong. Dignity always starts from the mind. How can you break free from imperialist system if you don't have the will to fight or even admit you need change to begin with?
@@ex0duzzYou are WRONG and making a fool of yourself by debating me. Your comment is kindergarten-level at best. You don't know how to read, nor do you comprehend its contents either. People may initially get some form of temporary dignity from getting rid of imperialism by being united, but that's not the reason why a country like China has achieved what it does today, which was what this guy was trying to argue. If having the "mind to break free" was all it takes, as you have claimed (or "dignity," as this guy argued), then why are there so many global south countries that have claimed to have become "independent" or gotten rid of western imperialism but are still under similar hardships of underdevelopment? Hence, he didn't use India as an example, being himself an Indian, but instead used Cuba and China. Maybe because he didn't want to say India hasn't gotten rid of British colonial rule (which is still under the British Commonwealth system, for example) and is still beholden to the US-led western imperialist system of today, as many global south countries still are. It is therefore the end results of development and continuous progression that made its people have permanent dignity through good governance by its leaders. Also, you could have gotten rid of imperialism at home and replaced it with an oppressive dictatorship instead, which totally defeated yours and his argument with such a possible outcome. I know enough world and Chinese history to understand this, which obviously you do not. And if you have followed Bruce Lee's wise words, in which he is in your profile picture (and the only thing you have a good taste for), you would have emptied your mind and learned to appreciate my cup of tea, or, in this case, my comment.
@@YCHTT you seem to have a reading or comprehension problem. I said dignity always starts from the mind, which it does. I did not say that dignity or will is all it takes to win a war. But without the will to fight in the first place, you can never win since you will never even fight to begin with. Not complicated. No one can take your dignity unless you give it. You can always fight and choose to fight and die instead of giving your dignity. Understand? Whether it's a foreign oppressor or local one is irrelevant. Everything else you mentioned is irrelevant to my point and what i said. Dignity and will is necessary to even fight to begin with, because if you have no will, no dignity, you have nothing. You won't even fight to begin with since you have no will and no dignity and self respect to fight. You said being independent from 5 eyes or whatever gives people the chance for dignity. WRONG. How will you even get independent to begin with when you have no will or dignity to even fight? When you don't even respect yourself enough(dignity) to even fight for independence? If you are already independent then you don't even need to fight. Without dignity and the will to fight, you won't even be independent and you will still be a colony. Not complicated.
@@ex0duzz You are the one who has reading and comprehension problems, as well as a lot of grammar errors in your writing. You keep saying it's "not complicated," and your reply shows what I was talking about was too complicated for you to comprehend. Believe what you will, fool. I don't have time for non-sense or trolls like you. I was only doing you a favor to enlighten you. It doesn't really matter at all who is "right" or "wrong" in a pointless argument over the internet. But a fool like you won't even understand that. It is "NOT that COMPLICATED"... LOL
Not only the hangover from colonialism, but the corrosive effects of rampant corruption in these 'southern' nations is what is the real killer of progress and pride.
Yes , there is a saying in india. It about the deads who will always reach out just to grab the money. These incorrigible souls. Even when they cannot have any use for the money, they can be waken up by it.,
In some way corruption is also a byproduct of colonialism think of it this way, ppl were deprived of the basic necessities of life for so long that there is a unrelinquished thirst for material things (power) even our basic tendency to hoard wealth illegally ofc is part of it
In my decades of experience, there is a tendency for the elites in post-colonial countries to assume the manners and positions of their previous masters. Without a much conscious effort, identification with your master is a psychological affliction that is very hard to shake.
Yes, wealthy modern Westerners, involved in the international struggle with Chinese socialism, are not aware that this causes the continuation of neo-colonialism, as is not in the interest of the Middle East , Africa, South-America. (for instance France sees itself as an enlightened socialist nation, but still extracts wealth from Niger and other African nations without shame)
The way I see it, for India, it's like the Stockholm syndrome. It has been colonized for so long and in the end it fell in love with its kidnappers. India is now colonized by its own elite and by the same divide and rule format. The 2 digit minority being the oligarchs, political parties, the educated elites, the caste system and the underworld controls India while the poor mass, indentured, landless farmers, etc, live at subsistence level. After 75 years of independence, the minority perpetuates this colonialism/feudalism and each state is its own fiefdom. I don't foresee any change for another 100 years to come. I hope I will be proved wrong in the near future. The day India uplifts 800 million people out of poverty like China, then, I can truly say that India has arrived.
British used to do divide and rule principles to rule the Indian and the same principle is used by the political parties to gain the power to rule the Indian today.
@@VJ592 You mean an ancient nation of 1.5 Billion people needs an artificial state of a few million people gathered on a stolen land. How powerful really is India? How can it face off with China if it needs Israel's help to contain Pakistan? 🤨🤔😉 ...
@@VJ592Indians in the west have a weird subvervient relationship with the wytes look at suella braverman look at rishi sunak look at nimrata randhawa aka niki hayley at my work place my 2 indian coworkers are embarassingly friendly and subservient to our white dismissive middle aged boss there is a patern stop being deffensive 😅
Islam's weird allowance of slavery means Muslims are slaves...and thus can never be free of subservience. They in fact are proud of being infected with slavery.
One of the modern Greats is Vijay PRASHAD. Not just a massive brain but his Humane approach to the world is extremely important, powerful and infectious
The Chinese are not cowering, they face it and understood the price paid . would it be better if it had been like gaza now? The self centred irony never cease with your type. This is the history of the Chinese people and you are not qualified to judge. Perhaps you prefer the way Churchills decision caused the death of millions in India's bengal famine. Is this more acceptable to your likes? Are the Indians cowering?
@@pisablavatsky-cb3dd The horrors of the Cultural Revolution, itself a mere decade or so of recent Chinese history, are amply documented by China itself. It was one of the most pernicious of Mao's crazy ideas and has nothing to do with present-day China.
You might want to challenge your assumption as Indians for the WEST. Westerners killed far more, not their own, and they have no problems with their successes.
@user-rk9it9hz6g What Chinese. The Chinese were not colonized completely by the West. The grievances are from the rest of the world, empathizing with the Chinese.
So true Prasad. When you fall in love with your master and the ones who enslaved you, it's very hard to shake off the slave mentality. The colonialist does more than enslaved you physically the do it mentally, and when the left the put in place the brown sahib to still owe feality to their white masters. When Mao said Liberation, he meant it in every way. If India wants to progress, it needs a Liberation in many ways
Vijay is only playing both sides. Only nut cases will believe in him completely. Slaves of colonialism? Indiannns suffering from? Any evidence? It give reason for believers to feel 'superior'. It brings sympathy from believers. Cereal killlers love such sympathetic feelings in the courtroom.
Well, I would rather be 'enslaved' by the master who could help me find freedom, democracy, free speech, social justice, creative thinking, and welfare like the so-called 'colonialist' THAN by the authoritarian narcissistic tyrannical force like this commie lefty dictator in disguise clown 🤡😂 Millions of Chinese flee to US to escape CCP, so??
Agreed. Many Indians are still enslaved to the west. Just look at indian movies. advertisements, and media. They just glorify whatever is happening in the west and adopt it blindly. That is why even today in 2024, India is heavily dependent on the west for technology and resources. One of the biggest advantage India has it is the self sufficient in agriculture and food production. Second India provides low cost labors such as computer programmers and so on to middle eastern and western nations. But India's education system based on colonial english methods. These laborers brings foreign income but they do not innovate anything from India.
@@nishanthananth9668 How many years took for US to become super power.... US empire established in 1776 ,it took 247 years what ever position US is enjoying US street's are dirty , Highest homelessness, people puking infront of homes. India completed 75 years It started at budget of 25 billion dollars, 300 million people with below 1% of global GDP after 1947 Less than 20% of literacy in 1947 What is india in next 10 years? I don't believe in Chinese GDP numbers and debt to GDP, unemployment, growth rate Eastern side of China is not entire Chinese development There is a huge income inequality in China despite its economy is number two
@@nishanthananth9668Look the infrastructure India has now, and had 15 years ago. It had 50kms of metro then, now more than 2500 kms. It had an Economy of 1.2 Trillion $. Now it's 3X that. Now bigger than its colonizer. Still very poor. But growing fast
@@nishanthananth9668 Flows matter more than stocks. And India will have a larger total economy than the USA within a generation, albeit a much smaller per capita GDP. India is the world's fastest growing economy. This will transform the world.
India is slowly developing but definitely not at the pace of China. Once India drops it's colonial mindset, there is no force in the world that can face India
India and China are 2 civilsations still existing . Rest were empires like British empires, Greek empires , Turkish empires etc that come n go. Brurish were living in caves just a 1000 years ago eating raw meat. How did they suddently got rich?
The Chinese under Mao achieved 'dignity', he says. Perhaps, so long as you survived Mao's murderous policies. An estimated 35 to 40 million Chinese people died under Mao's policies during his rule. At least 100,000 people were murdered in Cuba once the revolution achieved power.
Colonialism explains why China has outstriped India and Africa. That's why I support India"s drive to traditional Hinduism. This will rid the Indian psyche of western mental control
@@AnAn___ you tell me! Why do you think china's economy is 6 times that of India yet they have the same population? That's what Vijay is talking about. And that's why modi is driving the Hindu program
India is on the decline, and yet proclaiming they are the world fastest growing economy. Just look at those fighting for russia, and filling up jobs in israel.
Amazing insight from Mr Vijay. Many from the uninitiated still worship and cling on to the coattails of their colonial masters.Such is their mentality.. It's a legacy that lingers on...like a bad smell that won't go away.
It is very difficult to change habits, mindset, beliefs. Notice this in yourself. Let's have compassion for one another as we collectively crawl out of the cave of enforced ignorance.
Chinese land ownership can prevent the acquisition of land by capital interests, and it determins the livelihood of farmers by utilizing increasing modern social agricultural faciities with affordbal prices to generate income.
Now there is imperialism & colonialism of the CCP And btw what dignity was there in the Chinese revolution during the 60s when Mao’s Cultural revolution resulted in 60 million Chinese dying of hunger
Feel so sad when you look back at the political history from that point. See how the old powers destroyed those countries one by one. Indonesia, Yugoslavia. Ghana, Sri Lanka (with the help of the old rich who were friends of their masters)
The leaders of these formerly colonized countries transferred, incorrectly, their distaste for the way in which their former colonial masters leveraged their superiority to lord over them, to the economic system that had brought them to this position of superiority in the first place. A tragic mistake that still hasn't been fixed in much of the global south....and so the failures continue albeit to a lesser extent than before.
If you start using "sir" or "madam" back at the individual, you can see the delight in their eyes. In TamilNadu, depending on who you speak to, you say brother, sister, mother, Uncle (அண்ணே, தம்பி, தங்கச்சி, அக்கா, அம்மா, ஐயா). In this way, you show respect to others AND the dignity is satisfactorily taken care of. When you misbehave, you will lose your respect. Only to the "boss", one shows extra respect; otherwise there is a likelihood of losing one's job. If as a manager, you demand your employees to address you by your first name that endears you to all your fellow employees. By doing so, you elevate their dignity. If this is promoted by company officers across the organization, then all the employees would understand what is dignity etc. We have to drop the formality across at different levels. When this is promoted openly with enthusiasm, the servitude will go away and the Quality of Service will shine through. Of course, the compensation has to take place with a high degree of fairness.
Britain destroyed the justice system of India thus leading to corruption in India and lack of strong justice for its people. Plus democracy also leads to corruption and mismanagement. Democracy is not the way of our ancestors. We need monarchy to make quick and bold decisions and put an end to corruption.
When the South came together in the non-aligned movement, the dictatorial regime in Pakistan signed SEATO & CENTO with their colonial masters. If colonialism still exists, it afflicts my country more than any other.
He is right on the money. Even in the movies they use British flags n talk English. That’s like russia making a movie n showing the Nazi flag in the tv constantly lol
Zhou Enlai (shuài gē) was one of my favourites that changed the way China is today. I agree with Vijay and can see the equalisation that occurred in China through the revolution, but it also was brutal at times. Zhou Enlia was correct regarding expansion of infrastructure and education for the people at the expense of the military. We are on the precipice of a nuclear exchange that is driven by military ambition and industry that has eaten American's future that is creating horrible violence and hate throughout the earth. Colonialism and hegemony needs to end or it will end all of us.
Ok, so after India lost to the Mughals during the three Panipat wars, the British fought the Mughals and defeated them thereby reverting India from an Islamic rule. The British then fought, ( in India), the French, Portuguese, and during World War 2, the Japanese, during the battles for Kohima and Ramphal. ( yes, the Japanese attempted to invade India). And finally, after India gained independence, China invaded, thereby sequestering, Tibet, and some other provinces in India, it was Britain that came to India’s assistance sending the Chinese army back over India’s border, unfortunately Nehru had already ceded Tibet to the Chinese. These are facts that has eluded all of India’s so called historians.
Please read history man.. You are like monumentally wrong. Maratha State defeated, weakened and vassalized the Mughals. Maratha rule was over ~70% of present day India and it lasted for 50 years. Post that the Brits defeated Marathas and brought India under their rule
@@jagriv5659 I am myself strictly against politics and I know Indian politicians are wicked and have a huge propaganda. But what I stated has lots of evidences. When I say evidence, I mean independent evidence
omg, you are really ignorant. there is no india at that time. it is a simple but all important point. mughals did not defeat indians. they defeated certain kings.
Without the Brits to blame, India might have to take responsibility for its own failures. And that will never happen. Come back in another century or 2 & India will still be calling itself a super power while blaming the British for everything wrong with it.
@@seikiro3462 India was a dump when we found it and they stole all our money to build Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkatta, the roads, railways, universities etc. And weren't Indian shitting in the ganges before and after British rule?
@@seikiro3462 Britain was rich before they turned up in the Indian subcontinent with overwhelming advantages in high quality abundantly available essential trade goods to swap for it's natural resources....🇬🇧👍👊
@@seikiro3462 the British empire managed to achieve complete power over the entire Indian subcontinent with no more than sixty thousand British troops with boots on the ground at any point in history.....thats the very definition of winning you jealous loser🙄👏👏🇬🇧👊
The Chinese People Have Stood Up! This is so damn accurate Look at India's peasantry They must not look at their masters eve to eye: Aankh Dikhata Hai!! (Dare to look me in the eye?!!! Bam!
India was the "Crown Jewell" of the defunct British Empire, and most Indians are strangely proud of their past colonial connection with the British Empire. Like the Apples that seldom fall far from its tree, India, like their former master (UK) also wants to “punch over its own weight in international affairs”, which necessitate India to play both sides of the geo-politics aisles in order to get more attention.
The East India company took control of all the kingdoms, one by one, using locals against locals. Then then gave control over to the British government That is how sick the inhabitants were.
India enjoys to be colonized because when independent, she feels lost and don't know what to do till now. She is still look towards US and UK for guidance and direction.
what you said is a great example of "shaming the victim" and west and their mental slaves (no matter the skin color) do it proudly. When a country's economy, judiciary, n most important, education system is made & poisoned in such a way to induce inferiority complex in the minds of the people for 200 years, it is very very difficult to come out of it, mental slavery is much harder to get rid of than physical slavery... but truth will come out one day, and everyone will have to accept the fact that Bharat was not like europeans have projected it by their poisonous narrative. Bharat was once the jewel on this Earth, that's why all europeans wanted to work with us, even before they thought of colonizing this great country by their malicious games. But the rules of "Karam" are bigger than all humans, and time will punish the wrong doers soon..and truth will come out that who is in reality civilized and who is not
Do you think a 'slave' will hide, for years, under the wings of USSR for aggressive acts that USA thinks it has a monopoly on? @peanut0brain You want peace? Give something. India terrified your brain. Stop begging, but give something. This is what terrified you. 1947 Annexation of Kashmir 1948 Annexation of Hyderabad 1948 Annexation of Junagadh 1949 Annexation of Manipur 1949 Annexation of Tripura 1951 Annexation of South Tibet 1951 Nagaland plebiscite - 99.9% of the Nagas wanted independence from India 1961 Annexation of Goa 1962 Annexation of Kalapani, Nepal 1962 Aggression against China 1971 Annexation of Turtuk, Pakistan 1972 Annexation of Tin Bigha, Bangladesh 1975 Annexation of Sikkim (the whole country) 1983 (Aborted) Attempted invasion of Mauritius 1990 (Failed) Attempted annexation of Bhutan 2006 Annexation of Duars, Bhutan 2013 Annexation of Moreh, Myanmar
i usually have a problem with his embrace of communist system...but he has a point here. china's manpower quality is the result of the universal education and community building process ...even i have to admit that. tho, the revolution took more than it gave,it did give one important strength, which, when the chinese rejoined the rest of the world proves to be its biggest strength. true, for all its democratic structure, india struggles to raise the manpower quality uniformly. having a middle class techocracy (which has a great tendency to migrate for better pastures) is not enough, when the masses remain ignorant, ill informed, unskilled, shackled with a burden of past equations...
I think now it is in the Indian DNA, Indians today are a different species than what it originally was. Yes, it has a great history but it does not inherit its originality, it is lost.
True to a large extend, especially when we hear Indian MPs using English language debating in the Indian Parliament, a sure sign that the colonial umbilical cord is still strongly embedded in most Indian parliamentarians.
All kind of languages are used in Indian parliment, not only English..... wnat percentage of debating is in English? Hardly any .PM never debates in English.
@@sumitroy2006 Well, there are no Japanese, Chinese, Malay, French, Spanish or Russian spoken in the Indian parliament while English are always used in short phrases as if its a bragging rights associated with their former colonial ruler in London. Perhaps these Indian MPs in the Indian parliament also hold British passports which obliged them to make English's presence felt in the Indian parliament.
@@thebestevertherewas MODI was a high priest before becoming India's PM, and therefore, can debate best in the Hindi language; furthermore English is not his forte.
a) India is still much, much better off in this respect than many African countries where the colonial powers and their descendants continue to be present and unequal structures have been imposed on the countries trade and economy and been accepted by those countries b) Yes, there is something to be said about the dignity and self-respect of people from countries which were never directly colonised like Ethipia, Iran and even China to some extent but India still has got rid of the mental attitude to some extent, especially since 1990 and c) certainly, when compared to many other countries both ex-colonies and others, India has remained freer in its policies and taken less dictation as well "help" (with strings attached) from western powers throughout its history...perhaps as a direct result of the freedom struggle and consequent suspicion of all foreign powers
The East India company took control of all the kingdoms, one by one, using locals against locals. Then then gave control over to the British government That is how sickly corrupt the inhabitants were. They still are, today
No, fairly to say when UK colonialists left India they gave India the longest railway in the world, India then had much more better infrastructure than China in that time. But India couldn’t take advantage of those colonial leftover, except its colonialism.
More accurately the UK forced India to be socialist at the point of the gun and brainwashed the Indian elite to be leftists, socialists, post modern and communists. To this day UK and global academia control Indian academia and push socialism, leftism, communist and wokeness inside India. India only began to break free from UK colonialism with the 1991 economic reforms, which I am sure you would acknowledge have made India the world's fastest growing economy in recent years.
Colonialism never ended... It has transformed!!!
Yes, and now Africa and other parts of the global south are being colonized by China. 😢
Turning to be financially and mindset colonizations, like industrial shareholding and western “liberal democracy” brainwash.
It was “transferred” to JAWAHARLAL NEHRU and today INHERITED by HOWDY 🤠 MODI the NAYA VISHVA GURU 😂🤣
true. nothng collapsed, they changed modus operandi. Now they bribe countries' secret police, who runs the governments around the world by terrorist activity including using the judiciary and psychiatry as weapons of repression, torture and extermination. They print money so they got a virtual infinite supply. As a result countries occupy themselves, and run fake deficits as national debts to cover up one form of exploitation, besides the typical ruining of local economy as it happened in India and East Europe. This operates pretty much as the insolvency / liquidation mafia internally in every country, they bankrupt a business then sell it off for scrap to their criminal friends. Expropriated people become cheap labor force, just as Marx said. In short the new invasion plan is: 1. Bribery; 2. assasination if Bribery fails; 3. military invasion under false pretext if assasinations and Bribery fails, and installment of a pupper regime
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only idiots would believe anyone gives up power, or that anyone gains power. Power is already owned and is only invested, therefore whoever owns anything is owned by a higher tier of power mongers, ultimately a cartel of banks, governments and corporations, a.k.a. NATO today, a feudal court around USA
It is true the Dravidian people of the South are complaning about the attempts of the goons of hendutva/rss /bjp from the North to colonise them by imposing the hendi language and the cruel for of henduism practiced in the North ,the son of CM of Tamil Nadu compare sanatan dharma to the dengue...love that brave son of the Tamil people .perhaps it is time for the Dravidian people to get divorce from endia and create their own country...the Dravida Nadu...
Vijay is an amazing educator, historian and journalist. Thank You for all your contributions to help us to understand the history and the truth on what is going on in this trouble world.
And hes an arse licker if dictator xi
Respected, I am 70 + from Pakistan. British Raj greatest success was 1) They made us Mental Slaves 2) The policy of Divide and Rule still (May be In more worse condition) exist in subcontinent. The Rulers are following the same pattern. If you Rationally think, after 75 years is still the way of Governance. I don't know how much Time is required to eliminate this mindset.
Indians helped the British, and even now if you try to learn Hindi a lot of Indians say your wasting your time, Indians can’t even agree on the common language, where is the Sanskritized Hindi. Indias only hope are the five god technologies: nuclear fusion, super ai, bci, replicators, quantum computer.
i 1000% agree with you sir, you summed up this sub-continents biggest problem in just one sentence.. i wish more people, especially those in power, understood it...our mental slavery of the west/white world is devastating us, and at the same time, it is giving them power over us...
I'm highly obliged for you and who are ready to accept the truth. They developed ' Regulated Qualified Slavery' , instead of physical occupation of land, they started importing ( as immigration) Doctors, Technologies and according to their needs. These kind of Slavery Engulfed the whole planet. They have become Lords. They have become Enterpeuners and we are highly/ low paid Employees. We Glorify our employment.
Let's not forget Jinnah wanted the division.
It’s not only British Raj We have tendency to blame others. Jinnah was an optimist not a blackmailer like so called Saint Gandhi. Did British told us that some people are less human than others. Pakistanis are majorly Muslims and still they practice all brahmnical traditions of purity impurity and caste related regressive behaviours are ingrained in their everyday life / beliefs. Did British created and imposed this caste system. Keep whining
An important point is that Yugoslavia no longer exists because the US-led NATO bombed it off face the face of the earth. The leaders of the countries involved have never been held to account.
Michael parenti, talked about this in one of his criticism of the west, the US and NATO. He goes, into detail, how the west destroyed Yugoslavia and why, they did it.
Isn’t it the US intervention after the Yugoslavia 1990 breakup ?
Yes, and China has never been held accountable for their invasion of Tibet and their treatment of the Uyghurs.
What are you on about? US and Nato didn't break up Yugoslavia. Would've happened anyway... read a book.
Nothing to do with all the genocide the Yugoslavians were doing to each other then.
Vijay is a decent historian but dignity doesn't come out of thin air. Chinese peasantry saw itself as the agents of change. They actively shaped the society through their organization of communes with the support and guidance of the communist party. They had ownership over their means of production which made them the agents of change which brought them dignity. Dignity isn't an abstract phenomenon. It is material and as Fanon said, for the peasants it comes from the land.
And where is that Chinese dignity right now?
Where is Chinese peasantry now?
Do they onw their means of production?
Hell they don't even get any social benefits at all, so what kind of communism is China following?
The one where country is ruled by dictators, and people don't get social benefits and the Market is ruled by businesses. 🤡🤡
Yeah he said because of the revolution. He only has 6 minutes to speak here
CCP is one of the most corrupt parties in the world they are mostly captialists.
In India and Pakistan the peasants and low caste public have accepted their position and are revering the high castes ´ majority of the population thinks that they are less human than others this mindset is so so ingrained 😢😢😢😢
They fucking deleted my comment? 😂😂😂
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No criticism of Xitler is allowed ,I see। 😂😂
at least Indians now are awakening; don't be again being colonial slavery mindset.
No, 55% of the population work in the farming... for the landlords. So, yeah.. colonialism still thriving in India.
You are still living in lala land
@@TheArtofWarChinaIndia completed 75 year's of independence not 200 or 2000 years
India has highest arable ,all types of soil & produce all kind of agri commodities
USA completed 248 years of independent empire to reach top position.
30 years back, that number was 70%.@@TheArtofWarChina
@@kirannnnnn Read and study my comment. Maybe one day you would understand it.
Mr. Vijay is one of the very few people who understand the Chinese people in depth. He is a true unbiased intellectual.
literally 1 in a million when it comes to India. Don't make the mistake of thinking many Indians think like him. Most in fact, don't think at all.
@blcheah2672 Yeah and I’m sure you’ve met a million people let alone most of India…
@@sheevpalps3846 The average Indian has an IQ of 76. Vijay sounds like he has an IQ of 160. Statistically that would make him one in a million for India.
@@blcheah2672Such kind of people are even rare in China. Maybe 1 in a 100 million. That would be just 140 people as smart as Prashad in China.
Dont ever confuse Chinese people to be smart. They are still under slavery of CCP. They cannot think one bit.
hahahahahahahaha hahahaaaaaa.....hahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaa.....sure man, sure....hahahahahaaaa
Rare voice of truth. Thank you for speaking out.
❤well said and well OBSERVED. You are absolutely CORRECT
U SAID it, Mr Vijay. Someone had to say it. U SAID IT.
I scour the net for this man’s opinion, wisdom.
THAT proves you a smart man as well, my friend.
Do you think a 'slave' will hide, for years, under the wings of USSR for aggressive acts that USA thinks it has a monopoly on?
@peanut0brain You want peace? Give something. India terrified your brain. Stop begging, but give something. This is what terrified you.
1947 Annexation of Kashmir
1948 Annexation of Hyderabad
1948 Annexation of Junagadh
1949 Annexation of Manipur
1949 Annexation of Tripura
1951 Annexation of South Tibet
1951 Nagaland plebiscite - 99.9% of the Nagas wanted independence from India
1961 Annexation of Goa
1962 Annexation of Kalapani, Nepal
1962 Aggression against China
1971 Annexation of Turtuk, Pakistan
1972 Annexation of Tin Bigha, Bangladesh
1975 Annexation of Sikkim (the whole country)
1983 (Aborted) Attempted invasion of Mauritius
1990 (Failed) Attempted annexation of Bhutan
2006 Annexation of Duars, Bhutan
2013 Annexation of Moreh, Myanma
he is loved by chinese women in general li jingjing in particular
As usual, this sort of educational information from Mr Prashad, preeminent historian and journalist, should be on mainstream channels, discussed and viewed by millions. Then western imperial hegemony would end! Sadly, it is not. Thank you again for sharing your deep knowledge in history and current geopolitical realities!👋👋👋👋
This kind of woke leftist propaganda most definitely should not be on these platforms. He is an apologist for XI and engages is irrational emotional attacks on most asians for standing up to Xi's aggression against the rest of the asia and the world.
that bs , out of his mouth?
*It's the lines "divide and rule" once drew, which linger on long after the empires have left.*
These "lines" are not only on the maps, but they also persist in the heads of following generations.
*You can see these effects of imperialism having long-term effects in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, or on the Indian subcontinent.*
The "divide" between Hindus and Muslims in India today, was once fostered and deepened by the British Empire, as a "divide and rule"-strategy of top-down power.
Where is the evidence that there is a divide between nonmuslims and muslims in India? Please don't trust woke leftist wacko sources.
Indian muslims might be the most liberal muslims in the world. And there Indian muslims and Indian nonmuslims are united against conservative sunni islamists.
You meant before the british, muslims and hindus love each other. Otherwise it all bs whatever you are saying.
@@biggpicture2930 More precisely the English imperialists backed islamists against liberal muslims. Nonmuslims in asia generally sided with the liberal muslims.
@@biggpicture2930Muslims are the main problem these days. Hindus have moved on but the Muslims haven't.
@@biggpicture2930 "Bs" is what lingers in the heads of weak minds, enamored with their man-made systems.
Well said of the truth of imperialism and British/US Colonialism
Absolutely correct. Even today, after 75 years of independence, India is a sophisticated and decent slaves of west colonialism.
The west cleverly created UN, WTO, WHO etc. to impose its dictum on erstwhile colonies to keep them so. With all the wherewithal India obediently submitted to this.
Bro they can’t say No
You have no idea what you are writing about. India is the world's fastest growing economy and will soon have to contribute greatly to most international institutions to keep them viable.
@@AnAn___ where India has no veto power or even an audition??? Get your bearing.
@@sundarAKintelart In practice India has rapidly growing global respect and influence. Only part of this is driven by India's rapidly growing economy.
@@AnAn___ India is a terrorist state
Being an Indian saying this, there is a rapid increase in algorithmic views of reaction channel content via YT like social media platforms, where reaction channels reacts on various things of and about India/Indian by foreigners from far west and also that by other indian subcontinent based foreigners, IS ALSO A GOOD EXAMPLE, the post colonial effect and TOXIC VALIDATION SEEKING MINDSET, indians developing.
India needs its own social media platform like China. The information space is another war front. Countries that don’t own their own information space are colonized by the ones countries that do.
Why is Vijay such as apologist for Pres Xi and Pres Xi's aggression against the rest of the world? Why is Vijay so anti Indian?
Vijay is not anti Indian. It is exactly the Bss view of India, that India wants from others.
@@biggpicture2930 Vijay is anti Indian and backs India's enemies (Pres Xi and sunni islamists and Pakistani army and the global woke movement)
India--even more than the US--has a large group of intellectuals who hate their country, blame the world's problems on their own country, and want to bring their country down.
He is only partly right and got a few things wrong. Most importantly, he hasn't covered the main point. It wasn't about dignity so much but more about being truly independent from the American-led five-eye imperialist system. That gives an independent nation and its people the opportunity to have dignity, not the other way around. Plus, being independent means you can create and develop policies and projects to grow and develop their nation rather than being sabotaged by the US-led imperialist western elements under its zero-sum-game imperialist system.
You are wrong. Dignity always starts from the mind. How can you break free from imperialist system if you don't have the will to fight or even admit you need change to begin with?
@@ex0duzzYou are WRONG and making a fool of yourself by debating me. Your comment is kindergarten-level at best. You don't know how to read, nor do you comprehend its contents either. People may initially get some form of temporary dignity from getting rid of imperialism by being united, but that's not the reason why a country like China has achieved what it does today, which was what this guy was trying to argue. If having the "mind to break free" was all it takes, as you have claimed (or "dignity," as this guy argued), then why are there so many global south countries that have claimed to have become "independent" or gotten rid of western imperialism but are still under similar hardships of underdevelopment?
Hence, he didn't use India as an example, being himself an Indian, but instead used Cuba and China. Maybe because he didn't want to say India hasn't gotten rid of British colonial rule (which is still under the British Commonwealth system, for example) and is still beholden to the US-led western imperialist system of today, as many global south countries still are. It is therefore the end results of development and continuous progression that made its people have permanent dignity through good governance by its leaders. Also, you could have gotten rid of imperialism at home and replaced it with an oppressive dictatorship instead, which totally defeated yours and his argument with such a possible outcome. I know enough world and Chinese history to understand this, which obviously you do not. And if you have followed Bruce Lee's wise words, in which he is in your profile picture (and the only thing you have a good taste for), you would have emptied your mind and learned to appreciate my cup of tea, or, in this case, my comment.
@@YCHTT you seem to have a reading or comprehension problem. I said dignity always starts from the mind, which it does. I did not say that dignity or will is all it takes to win a war. But without the will to fight in the first place, you can never win since you will never even fight to begin with. Not complicated.
No one can take your dignity unless you give it. You can always fight and choose to fight and die instead of giving your dignity. Understand? Whether it's a foreign oppressor or local one is irrelevant. Everything else you mentioned is irrelevant to my point and what i said. Dignity and will is necessary to even fight to begin with, because if you have no will, no dignity, you have nothing. You won't even fight to begin with since you have no will and no dignity and self respect to fight.
You said being independent from 5 eyes or whatever gives people the chance for dignity. WRONG. How will you even get independent to begin with when you have no will or dignity to even fight? When you don't even respect yourself enough(dignity) to even fight for independence?
If you are already independent then you don't even need to fight. Without dignity and the will to fight, you won't even be independent and you will still be a colony. Not complicated.
@@ex0duzz You are the one who has reading and comprehension problems, as well as a lot of grammar errors in your writing. You keep saying it's "not complicated," and your reply shows what I was talking about was too complicated for you to comprehend. Believe what you will, fool. I don't have time for non-sense or trolls like you. I was only doing you a favor to enlighten you. It doesn't really matter at all who is "right" or "wrong" in a pointless argument over the internet. But a fool like you won't even understand that. It is "NOT that COMPLICATED"... LOL
@@YCHTTDon't be so arrogant.
Not only the hangover from colonialism, but the corrosive effects of rampant corruption in these 'southern' nations is what is the real killer of progress and pride.
Yes , there is a saying in india. It about the deads who will always reach out just to grab the money. These incorrigible souls. Even when they cannot have any use for the money, they can be waken up by it.,
In some way corruption is also a byproduct of colonialism think of it this way, ppl were deprived of the basic necessities of life for so long that there is a unrelinquished thirst for material things (power) even our basic tendency to hoard wealth illegally ofc is part of it
I'm very impressed with his understanding of the significance of the Chinese revolution to the masses when he said it gave people dignity.
That is how and why the 1.4 billion Chinese today revere MAO to these days. - very misunderstood by the WEST.
Mao is 40% good and 60% very bad. He is not respected at all
I was 9yrs old when I first went to China, 1976.... What you say Vijay is just so true......
Chinese these days are clearly sovereign. What a good way to live for them, free from the yoke of western evil.
In my decades of experience, there is a tendency for the elites in post-colonial countries to assume the manners and positions of their previous masters. Without a much conscious effort, identification with your master is a psychological affliction that is very hard to shake.
Dariya ko koozay mein band kr diya bhai Jaan
Very truthfully stated 👍
Yes, wealthy modern Westerners, involved in the international struggle with Chinese socialism, are not aware that this causes the continuation of neo-colonialism, as is not in the interest of the Middle East , Africa, South-America. (for instance France sees itself as an enlightened socialist nation, but still extracts wealth from Niger and other African nations without shame)
The way I see it, for India, it's like the Stockholm syndrome. It has been colonized for so long and in the end it fell in love with its kidnappers. India is now colonized by its own elite and by the same divide and rule format. The 2 digit minority being the oligarchs, political parties, the educated elites, the caste system and the underworld controls India while the poor mass, indentured, landless farmers, etc, live at subsistence level. After 75 years of independence, the minority perpetuates this colonialism/feudalism and each state is its own fiefdom. I don't foresee any change for another 100 years to come. I hope I will be proved wrong in the near future. The day India uplifts 800 million people out of poverty like China, then, I can truly say that India has arrived.
Kudos to Vijay for telling the truth! These former colonizers should be demanded to compensate for the goods taken from these nations!
Shame! Shame! 😮
You hit the nail right on the head!
But can you imagine those that need such shock induced change admitting to this‽
The USA came out of colonialism.
350 years and they got independence before industrialisation era and were able to form capital
USA is Briten's kid. it is a colonizer.
No its not came out, USA itself is a colonizer from Britsh descendants
What a lie haha..
Right the hypocrisy
British used to do divide and rule principles to rule the Indian and the same principle is used by the political parties to gain the power to rule the Indian today.
Spot on! Spoke to Indian intellectuals and they have this consensus.
India's weird relationship with Israel confirms India's love for the Subservient Status...
You must thank Pakistan for India relationship with Israel
@@VJ592 You mean an ancient nation of 1.5 Billion people needs an artificial state of a few million people gathered on a stolen land. How powerful really is India? How can it face off with China if it needs Israel's help to contain Pakistan? 🤨🤔😉 ...
@@VJ592Indians in the west have a weird subvervient relationship with the wytes look at suella braverman look at rishi sunak look at nimrata randhawa aka niki hayley at my work place my 2 indian coworkers are embarassingly friendly and subservient to our white dismissive middle aged boss there is a patern stop being deffensive 😅
Uncle sam weapons are unaffordable 😅 we need cheap and the best 😅
Islam's weird allowance of slavery means Muslims are slaves...and thus can never be free of subservience. They in fact are proud of being infected with slavery.
One of the modern Greats is Vijay PRASHAD. Not just a massive brain but his Humane approach to the world is extremely important, powerful and infectious
Hey Vijay the Chinese cultural revolution killed millions of their own people, ask them about that and they will cower.
The Chinese are not cowering, they face it and understood the price paid . would it be better if it had been like gaza now? The self centred irony never cease with your type. This is the history of the Chinese people and you are not qualified to judge. Perhaps you prefer the way Churchills decision caused the death of millions in India's bengal famine. Is this more acceptable to your likes? Are the Indians cowering?
😂😂your fake news source? Western propaganda mouthpieces? 😂😂😂
@@pisablavatsky-cb3dd The horrors of the Cultural Revolution, itself a mere decade or so of recent Chinese history, are amply documented by China itself. It was one of the most pernicious of Mao's crazy ideas and has nothing to do with present-day China.
You might want to challenge your assumption as Indians for the WEST. Westerners killed far more, not their own, and they have no problems with their successes.
@user-rk9it9hz6g What Chinese. The Chinese were not colonized completely by the West. The grievances are from the rest of the world, empathizing with the Chinese.
So is the philippines , japan and s.k.
Why are you so jealous of the asian tiger economic miracle? Most Asian countries are part of this economic miracle.
So true Prasad. When you fall in love with your master and the ones who enslaved you, it's very hard to shake off the slave mentality. The colonialist does more than enslaved you physically the do it mentally, and when the left the put in place the brown sahib to still owe feality to their white masters. When Mao said Liberation, he meant it in every way. If India wants to progress, it needs a Liberation in many ways
Vijay is only playing both sides. Only nut cases will believe in him completely. Slaves of colonialism? Indiannns suffering from? Any evidence? It give reason for believers to feel 'superior'. It brings sympathy from believers. Cereal killlers love such sympathetic feelings in the courtroom.
Are you one of them?
Well, I would rather be 'enslaved' by the master who could help me find freedom, democracy, free speech, social justice, creative thinking, and welfare like the so-called 'colonialist' THAN by the authoritarian narcissistic tyrannical force like this commie lefty dictator in disguise clown 🤡😂
Millions of Chinese flee to US to escape CCP, so??
Agreed. Many Indians are still enslaved to the west. Just look at indian movies. advertisements, and media. They just glorify whatever is happening in the west and adopt it blindly. That is why even today in 2024, India is heavily dependent on the west for technology and resources. One of the biggest advantage India has it is the self sufficient in agriculture and food production. Second India provides low cost labors such as computer programmers and so on to middle eastern and western nations. But India's education system based on colonial english methods. These laborers brings foreign income but they do not innovate anything from India.
Yes. India is very slowly getting decolonised.
Very good✊🏽👊🏽👍🏽
TQ for being broadmindedness and farsightedness reports。
This is not a bedtime story - you don't need the background music on a serious opinion piece. Great narrative from Vijay, as always, otherwise.
Vijay prashad history about india is correct but his love towards communism is not questionable
Does the type or system matter when you have clean streets, good infrastructure and rule of law??
@@nishanthananth9668 How many years took for US to become super power....
US empire established in 1776 ,it took 247 years what ever position US is enjoying
US street's are dirty , Highest homelessness, people puking infront of homes.
India completed 75 years
It started at budget of 25 billion dollars, 300 million people with below 1% of global GDP after 1947
Less than 20% of literacy in 1947
What is india in next 10 years?
I don't believe in Chinese GDP numbers and debt to GDP, unemployment, growth rate
Eastern side of China is not entire Chinese development
There is a huge income inequality in China despite its economy is number two
@@nishanthananth9668Look the infrastructure India has now, and had 15 years ago.
It had 50kms of metro then, now more than 2500 kms.
It had an Economy of 1.2 Trillion $.
Now it's 3X that.
Now bigger than its colonizer.
Still very poor.
But growing fast
@thebestevertherewas are you seriously comparing India witj Britan??? A tiny island country with fraction of people compared to India???
@@nishanthananth9668 Flows matter more than stocks. And India will have a larger total economy than the USA within a generation, albeit a much smaller per capita GDP. India is the world's fastest growing economy. This will transform the world.
Love listening to him🙏
China is evolving though. India unfortunately hasn’t yet
India is slowly developing but definitely not at the pace of China. Once India drops it's colonial mindset, there is no force in the world that can face India
@@phoenixj1299 need to get rid of the caste system and unite under Christ
@@Amor_Fati_christ needs Krishna
India and China are 2 civilsations still existing . Rest were empires like British empires, Greek empires , Turkish empires etc that come n go. Brurish were living in caves just a 1000 years ago eating raw meat. How did they suddently got rich?
Vijay for PM of India
It is inconceivable that India would elect a Pres Xi poodle and apologist for PM.
The Chinese under Mao achieved 'dignity', he says. Perhaps, so long as you survived Mao's murderous policies. An estimated 35 to 40 million Chinese people died under Mao's policies during his rule. At least 100,000 people were murdered in Cuba once the revolution achieved power.
Colonialism explains why China has outstriped India and Africa. That's why I support India"s drive to traditional Hinduism. This will rid the Indian psyche of western mental control
Why do you think India is now the world's fastest growing economy?
@@AnAn___ you tell me! Why do you think china's economy is 6 times that of India yet they have the same population? That's what Vijay is talking about. And that's why modi is driving the Hindu program
@@bang8534 What is your real GDP forecast for India over the next decade?
@@AnAn___ why ask what you can find freely on the web?
India is on the decline, and yet proclaiming they are the world fastest growing economy. Just look at those fighting for russia, and filling up jobs in israel.
Amazing insight from Mr Vijay.
Many from the uninitiated still worship and cling on to the coattails of their colonial masters.Such is their mentality..
It's a legacy that lingers on...like a bad smell that won't go away.
It is very difficult to change habits, mindset, beliefs. Notice this in yourself. Let's have compassion for one another as we collectively crawl out of the cave of enforced ignorance.
African countries need one party system. Democracy has failed them.
Chinese land ownership can prevent the acquisition of land by capital interests, and it determins the livelihood of farmers by utilizing increasing modern social agricultural faciities with affordbal prices to generate income.
But Neo liberalism didn't fail in Singapore, a former British colony.
Now there is imperialism & colonialism of the CCP
And btw what dignity was there in the Chinese revolution during the 60s when Mao’s Cultural revolution resulted in 60 million Chinese dying of hunger
Feel so sad when you look back at the political history from that point. See how the old powers destroyed those countries one by one. Indonesia, Yugoslavia. Ghana, Sri Lanka (with the help of the old rich who were friends of their masters)
but there is no evidence that these places would have been any better sans colonialism
Nope. There is plenty of evidence that these places swam in riches before colonisation.
@@phoenixj1299 the reason the europeans desperately went there in the first place
😢 thank you for bringing this info to the people... A lovely explanation of our current situation in this life.
"Literacy rate was merely 13%" Would've probably been 0% without the british.
@@DaaviKuparitanner It wouldn’t
probably the same. Most upper-castes were literate. that would be about 20% of th population.
You take out a loan, of course you have to pay it back, the British only finished paying the US back for world war 2 loans 20 years ago.
Voluntarily trapped of own choice.
Sir you are the.product of the UK colonialism because of English education and you must be grateful to the UK.colonialiasm
The leaders of these formerly colonized countries transferred, incorrectly, their distaste for the way in which their former colonial masters leveraged their superiority to lord over them, to the economic system that had brought them to this position of superiority in the first place. A tragic mistake that still hasn't been fixed in much of the global south....and so the failures continue albeit to a lesser extent than before.
More power to you, Vijay. Keep exposing the West and its post colonial stranglehold on the South
If you start using "sir" or "madam" back at the individual, you can see the delight in their eyes. In TamilNadu, depending on who you speak to, you say brother, sister, mother, Uncle (அண்ணே, தம்பி, தங்கச்சி, அக்கா, அம்மா, ஐயா). In this way, you show respect to others AND the dignity is satisfactorily taken care of. When you misbehave, you will lose your respect. Only to the "boss", one shows extra respect; otherwise there is a likelihood of losing one's job. If as a manager, you demand your employees to address you by your first name that endears you to all your fellow employees. By doing so, you elevate their dignity. If this is promoted by company officers across the organization, then all the employees would understand what is dignity etc. We have to drop the formality across at different levels. When this is promoted openly with enthusiasm, the servitude will go away and the Quality of Service will shine through. Of course, the compensation has to take place with a high degree of fairness.
What a load of utter bollocks , , lets blame colonialism for everything, nothing to do with the corruption in India whatsoever .
You are are a thinking man. The East India company took control of all the kingdoms, one by one, using corrupted locals against locals. That is india
Britain destroyed the justice system of India thus leading to corruption in India and lack of strong justice for its people. Plus democracy also leads to corruption and mismanagement. Democracy is not the way of our ancestors. We need monarchy to make quick and bold decisions and put an end to corruption.
@@desiputtar89 Back to medieval times. I'd laugh if it wasn't so pitiful.
The corruption that was created because of the colonial system for sure. Again Indians are at fault as well for having a Colonised mindset
Correction Genocidal British Empire ruled Aryawarta from 1757 1947 190 years.An Arya Samaji from Aryawarta.
When the South came together in the non-aligned movement, the dictatorial regime in Pakistan signed SEATO & CENTO with their colonial masters. If colonialism still exists, it afflicts my country more than any other.
He is right on the money. Even in the movies they use British flags n talk English. That’s like russia making a movie n showing the Nazi flag in the tv constantly lol
Zhou Enlai (shuài gē) was one of my favourites that changed the way China is today. I agree with Vijay and can see the equalisation that occurred in China through the revolution, but it also was brutal at times. Zhou Enlia was correct regarding expansion of infrastructure and education for the people at the expense of the military. We are on the precipice of a nuclear exchange that is driven by military ambition and industry that has eaten American's future that is creating horrible violence and hate throughout the earth. Colonialism and hegemony needs to end or it will end all of us.
Ok, so after India lost to the Mughals during the three Panipat wars, the British fought the Mughals and defeated them thereby reverting India from an Islamic rule. The British then fought, ( in India), the French, Portuguese, and during World War 2, the Japanese, during the battles for Kohima and Ramphal. ( yes, the Japanese attempted to invade India).
And finally, after India gained independence, China invaded, thereby sequestering, Tibet, and some other provinces in India, it was Britain that came to India’s assistance sending the Chinese army back over India’s border, unfortunately Nehru had already ceded Tibet to the Chinese.
These are facts that has eluded all of India’s so called historians.
Please read history man.. You are like monumentally wrong. Maratha State defeated, weakened and vassalized the Mughals. Maratha rule was over ~70% of present day India and it lasted for 50 years. Post that the Brits defeated Marathas and brought India under their rule
@@ameyaraomarathe Well Sir, I am aware of the Politicians version of history and have avoided those in favor of actual recorded events.
@@jagriv5659 I am myself strictly against politics and I know Indian politicians are wicked and have a huge propaganda. But what I stated has lots of evidences. When I say evidence, I mean independent evidence
omg, you are really ignorant. there is no india at that time. it is a simple but all important point. mughals did not defeat indians. they defeated certain kings.
So where in the video does he share Why India is still trapped in British Colonialism? Misleading title. Waste of 6:55 minutes.
Thx, I can shut off this drivel.
Without the Brits to blame, India might have to take responsibility for its own failures. And that will never happen. Come back in another century or 2 & India will still be calling itself a super power while blaming the British for everything wrong with it.
Yeah without the riches of India brits would still be shitting in river thames
@@seikiro3462 India was a dump when we found it and they stole all our money to build Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkatta, the roads, railways, universities etc. And weren't Indian shitting in the ganges before and after British rule?
@@seikiro3462 Britain was rich before they turned up in the Indian subcontinent with overwhelming advantages in high quality abundantly available essential trade goods to swap for it's natural resources....🇬🇧👍👊
@@davidatkinson5858 and the first battle British lost to Mughals yeah a power house
@@seikiro3462 the British empire managed to achieve complete power over the entire Indian subcontinent with no more than sixty thousand British troops with boots on the ground at any point in history.....thats the very definition of winning you jealous loser🙄👏👏🇬🇧👊
A day spent not licking chinese boots is a fay wasded for vijay prashad
British colonialism just got Indianised. Didn't go away.
The Chinese People Have Stood Up!
This is so damn accurate
Look at India's peasantry
They must not look at their masters eve to eye:
Aankh Dikhata Hai!!
(Dare to look me in the eye?!!! Bam!
India was the "Crown Jewell" of the defunct British Empire, and most Indians are strangely proud of their past colonial connection with the British Empire. Like the Apples that seldom fall far from its tree, India, like their former master (UK) also wants to “punch over its own weight in international affairs”, which necessitate India to play both sides of the geo-politics aisles in order to get more attention.
The East India company took control of all the kingdoms, one by one, using locals against locals. Then then gave control over to the British government That is how sick the inhabitants were.
But they have a powerful 'british' army that has fought against the qing and won much land for the british.
I feel every journalist should know history
what a brilliant mind ,,
colonialism is still a live in the global south,,
India enjoys to be colonized because when independent, she feels lost and don't know what to do till now. She is still look towards US and UK for guidance and direction.
what you said is a great example of "shaming the victim" and west and their mental slaves (no matter the skin color) do it proudly. When a country's economy, judiciary, n most important, education system is made & poisoned in such a way to induce inferiority complex in the minds of the people for 200 years, it is very very difficult to come out of it, mental slavery is much harder to get rid of than physical slavery... but truth will come out one day, and everyone will have to accept the fact that Bharat was not like europeans have projected it by their poisonous narrative. Bharat was once the jewel on this Earth, that's why all europeans wanted to work with us, even before they thought of colonizing this great country by their malicious games. But the rules of "Karam" are bigger than all humans, and time will punish the wrong doers soon..and truth will come out that who is in reality civilized and who is not
@@ssinghparamdeep11what is your obsession with isreal they dont consider you as a full humanbeing 😂😂😂 its so embarassing
Do you think a 'slave' will hide, for years, under the wings of USSR for aggressive acts that USA thinks it has a monopoly on?
@peanut0brain You want peace? Give something. India terrified your brain. Stop begging, but give something. This is what terrified you.
1947 Annexation of Kashmir
1948 Annexation of Hyderabad
1948 Annexation of Junagadh
1949 Annexation of Manipur
1949 Annexation of Tripura
1951 Annexation of South Tibet
1951 Nagaland plebiscite - 99.9% of the Nagas wanted independence from India
1961 Annexation of Goa
1962 Annexation of Kalapani, Nepal
1962 Aggression against China
1971 Annexation of Turtuk, Pakistan
1972 Annexation of Tin Bigha, Bangladesh
1975 Annexation of Sikkim (the whole country)
1983 (Aborted) Attempted invasion of Mauritius
1990 (Failed) Attempted annexation of Bhutan
2006 Annexation of Duars, Bhutan
2013 Annexation of Moreh, Myanmar
@@fadkabari8554There's no obsession with Israel here. You are misinformed or under misconception.
@@fadkabari8554 Why are u so triggered by Indians preferring Israel over terro'ris'ts? They don't consider ur kind to be civilised
i usually have a problem with his embrace of communist system...but he has a point here. china's manpower quality is the result of the universal education and community building process ...even i have to admit that. tho, the revolution took more than it gave,it did give one important strength, which, when the chinese rejoined the rest of the world proves to be its biggest strength. true, for all its democratic structure, india struggles to raise the manpower quality uniformly. having a middle class techocracy (which has a great tendency to migrate for better pastures) is not enough, when the masses remain ignorant, ill informed, unskilled, shackled with a burden of past equations...
Sadly, India's Politicians' DNA and Systems were altered by a few hundred years of GB colonialism, and not easy to erase
Where's the rest of the speech?
A sanguine thinker to follow, in one’s quest for DECOLONIZATION
What colonialism, there been years of successes and failures just pick yourselves up by your bootstraps
I think now it is in the Indian DNA, Indians today are a different species than what it originally was. Yes, it has a great history but it does not inherit its originality, it is lost.
Vijay never explained why Indians still have colonized mindset….
Interesting angle worth looking at
what's the other angle?
We are mentally comfortable economically but we are undiginified in other ways.
Wow I have just found this guy : love him : so informative:
Vijay gave an excellent narrative of the difference between Indian and Chinese today. I tip my hat to his observation.
Well said. We even sense the same sentiment from elected Indian politicians in the West. They are still mentally enslaved.
True to a large extend, especially when we hear Indian MPs using English language debating in the Indian Parliament, a sure sign that the colonial umbilical cord is still strongly embedded in most Indian parliamentarians.
All kind of languages are used in Indian parliment, not only English..... wnat percentage of debating is in English? Hardly any .PM never debates in English.
@@sumitroy2006 Well, there are no Japanese, Chinese, Malay, French, Spanish or Russian spoken in the Indian parliament while English are always used in short phrases as if its a bragging rights associated with their former colonial ruler in London. Perhaps these Indian MPs in the Indian parliament also hold British passports which obliged them to make English's presence felt in the Indian parliament.
@@donhuang9855 Modi changed that.
Never talks in English in Parliament
@@thebestevertherewas MODI was a high priest before becoming India's PM, and therefore, can debate best in the Hindi language; furthermore English is not his forte.
@@donhuang9855 Modi was never a priest lmao
a) India is still much, much better off in this respect than many African countries where the colonial powers and their descendants continue to be present and unequal structures have been imposed on the countries trade and economy and been accepted by those countries b) Yes, there is something to be said about the dignity and self-respect of people from countries which were never directly colonised like Ethipia, Iran and even China to some extent but India still has got rid of the mental attitude to some extent, especially since 1990 and c) certainly, when compared to many other countries both ex-colonies and others, India has remained freer in its policies and taken less dictation as well "help" (with strings attached) from western powers throughout its history...perhaps as a direct result of the freedom struggle and consequent suspicion of all foreign powers
The East India company took control of all the kingdoms, one by one, using locals against locals. Then then gave control over to the British government That is how sickly corrupt the inhabitants were. They still are, today
Because White/Western colonialism doesnt leave without a good fight.
@ PanAfricanTelevision
why are there chinese subtitles/captions over everything on your channel? Are you really based in Ghana?
China owns Africa
As some said, the distance between China and India is [ a Mao]. ------------------ Mao's revelation is fundamental.
True....
All that matters is moving forward
Why is UA-cam blocking me to make a comment and why can't I see the comments of supporters of UA-cam?
Chinese communism brought realism and reality, fanatic religious countries usually have different principles
LOVE VIJAY!!!!
The music a distraction and adds nothing… drop it
Respect for this man🫡
No, fairly to say when UK colonialists left India they gave India the longest railway in the world, India then had much more better infrastructure than China in that time. But India couldn’t take advantage of those colonial leftover, except its colonialism.
More accurately the UK forced India to be socialist at the point of the gun and brainwashed the Indian elite to be leftists, socialists, post modern and communists. To this day UK and global academia control Indian academia and push socialism, leftism, communist and wokeness inside India.
India only began to break free from UK colonialism with the 1991 economic reforms, which I am sure you would acknowledge have made India the world's fastest growing economy in recent years.
Indians had to call Britishers railway workers to work and train Indian people.
If Britain took so much money from its colonies, then why was Britain totally broke in 1945, 1947 and even in 1950 ???
World war 2
Wasteful wars
India needs capital accumulation !
Notes: India don't have a lot to
export !
out of those 5, two of them was assasinated or coup,ed one of them had assasination attempts before he was deposed...