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Regarding India…there was no such place as India until the British arrived. There were instead, hundreds of Kingdoms fighting it out with each other, whilst at the same time trying to protect themselves from the Mughal Empire, which invaded India and took millions of people into slavery. The British stopped that, just like they stopped the barbaric Indian practice of throwing the widows of men onto their husband’s funeral pyres to be burned alive. The British introduced good governance, the railways, sanitation, and most importantly the tea plant to India, from which accounts for a high percentage of their exports. On top of this we built the Indian Army, brought in laws that treated everyone equally, public health, and tried to do away with the caste system which treated the poorest of people as “untouchables”. And I say we tried to get rid of the caste system, but the “peace loving” Ghandi brought it right back in once India became Independent. But it was the British Empire that was “evil”, not the Mughal Empire…because the British were white and the Mughals were South Asian and Middle Eastern. People have a very blinkered view of the past and try to apply modern day morals and norms to a time when the morals and norms were different.
The Mughals were a remnant of the Mongolian Empire.
I'm so glad you explained that about India. ❤.
You're forgetting the east India company and their unethical actions
@UCOloivcUPnZ8e6ZjuC7ALgA no I’m not. I never said the British were perfect, but compared to the Mughal empire it was not nearly as brutal, or ruthless, but the British were more effective at gaining control. However, no empire is good, the very nature of creating an empire means that others will suffer. But the British Empire, whilst not being good, was certainly not the worst…in fact it was far from the worst…yet people continue to blame the British for just about any evil in the world, whilst the Mughals, Ottomans, Spanish, French, Belgian, German, Japanese and Dutch get a “pass”, when most of them did things far worse than the British.
They had east and West Bangladesh
The Brits abolished slavery. 😉
To surpresse other countries so they did not take over power. Read more.
They tried to abolish slavery; it still flourishes in sub-Saharan Africa in spite of their efforts.
But most of the world was improved in this respect.
@@luckybag6814 And Africans in other parts of the world (even if their ancestors were transported by the Portuguese, who were the biggest slavers) are the first to demand apology and reparations from the Brits. How about demanding from the Africans, who indulged in slavery before the first white man ever set foot in Africa, and who still have it now?
British brought slavery to North America.
Haitian Revolution 1804
British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807.
Britain banned slavery in colonies in 1833. Slave owners were compensated, freed slaves received nothing.
Britain supported the south in every way short of war 1861-1865.
see
Trent Affair
Alabama Claims
Bermuda during the American Civil War
As Al Murray aka The Pub Landlord says, 'God is British' so why is anyone surprised the British invented pretty much everything.
'There are no earthquakes in Britan; we don't deserve them, it's as simple as that.' 🫡
The problem is, most of the world doesn't understand this type of humour.
God has to be British. The bible is written in English isn’t it.😅
The man who invented the W.W.W. didn't patent it because he wanted the world to have it.
I'm British
No wonder they don't teach you British history at school😂😂
What did the British get from India?
Some spices!
Stitches!
What did India get from the British empire?
Modern farming.
Vaccines.
Education system.
Justice system.
Roads.
Airports.
Sea port.
International communication.
Gas/electric cooker.
Hospitals.
Clinics.
Electric dam.
Modern machinery.
Factories.
Metal ships and a UNITED INDIA!
That is not holding a country back.
That looks more like investing and developed!
💯 % spot on every place we made better brought law and order the famine that happend we was at war it was either feed soldiers or Indian people in India nothing is cut and dry
And scammers till this day lol
@@davidware9549 how do you work that out that we're scammers when our empire grew through conqest open trade with different nations from different continent's and industrial revolution. We didn't scam anyone it was called war places we went people was already enslaved we set them free why do you think the places still celebrate our monarchy and the Queen bit strange don't you think 🤔
and don't forget Britain ended the tradition of widow burning.
You forgot the railway’s!
And the Brits were the first to outlaw slavery!!
The UK didn't finish paying off the debts we incurred due to it making the world abolish the slave trade wasn't paid off fully until 2015.
British brought slavery to North America and supported the confederate states in every way possible short of war.
We actually took the railroads to India and took the tea from China to India creating a whole new industry. We left them far richer than when we found them.
First Opium War fought so British could trade opium for tea instead of paying in sterling.
Thank you❤
@@nickdanger3802 only cus the Chinese government forced are hand cus they didnt want druggies so the UK sold it to them
Some ex-colonies wish they were still in the British Empire. Like Hong Kong. And several countries have regressed and gone backwards since the British left. Many of the territories that modern revisionist historians and activists refer to as 'countries' were not countries at all until the British created them as the man in the video said. They were simply warring tribes fighting over territories.
And Jamaica. The Gleaner - the main Jamaican newspaper - carried out a survey a few years ago which showed that the majority of Jamaicans thought it would have been better if they'd remained under British rule.
@@thegroovetube3247 true, I think it was 60% in 2010/2011.
Unfortunately, Woke AntiBritish propaganda, and the thought that we might give them even more handouts (I think they are calling them reparations) may have changed that outlook now.
It's also true that before the current war in Yemen, a fair proportion of the inhabitants of what used to be Aiden wanted to come back to British rule. They may have all been killed by the Marxists or the Saudi's now.
@@thegroovetube3247 Yes, And i remember a Jamaican radio doing a phone in some years ago regarding where they felt better off, almost 100% agreed, the commonwealth was better.
One nation that totally reversed is Zimbabwe. If you look at Zimbabwe before it exited the empire compared to what Mugabe ended up doing to the nation, it is a catastrophe. It really is.
Many Indians sill have a positive attitude towards British rule (The Raj) in India.
Here in Israel, the British Empire left a huge impact on the legal system, on industrialization and the economy. Especially in the Haifa Bay area.
@@trespire Just know, despite what the mainstream media would like you to believe, the vast majority of us British people stand with Israel. God Bless.
@@richardcarter5082 In down town Haifa, not far from one of the port gates, there is a Commonwealth graveyard of fallen solders slap bang in the middle of a densly developed area.
Everytime I catch a glance out of the side window as I'm driving by, seing the neat rows of meticulously kept headstones, I get a lump in my throught thinking of all those young men lost in their youth. Many dating back to 1918.
As an Israeli I feel indebted as much to those Commonwealth solders as to the losses of our own IDF. We should never ever forget.
@@trespire The Jewish Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) and Irgun (National Military Organisation) movements initiated violent uprisings against the British Mandate in the 1940s. On 6 November 1944, Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet Zuri (members of Lehi) assassinated Lord Moyne in Cairo. Moyne was the British Minister of State for the Middle East and the assassination is said by some to have turned British Prime Minister Winston Churchill against the Zionist cause. After the assassination of Lord Moyne, the Haganah kidnapped, interrogated, and turned over to the British many members of the Irgun ("The Hunting Season"), and the Jewish Agency Executive decided on a series of measures against "terrorist organisations" in Palestine. Irgun ordered its members not to resist or retaliate with violence, so as to prevent a civil war.
@@nickdanger3802 Armed actions were taken against the British after they raided Jewish kibuzim and agricutural villages to confiscated arms used to defend themselves against raiding nighbours, and after the British sent a handful to the gallows in Acre Police Station.
When the British played dirty, they received in kind.
They were dying from famine and drought in India before the Brits turned up .We can't invent rain .
Exactly people bring up the bengal famine and Churchill, but that was a case of there not being enough food to go round so of course the British are gonna take what they need for themselves. It's not like it was cause through evil intentions.
Exactly people bring up the bengal famine and Churchill, but that was a case of there not being enough food to go round so of course the British are gonna take what they need for their forces in countries like Singapore and Myanmar that were fighting the japanese. It's not like it was cause through evil intentions, a war was on and these crops were needed elsewhere. It didn't help that a cyclone hit aswell.
You made me laugh 🙂. Once we turned up every time someone died it was “the brits” fault
Blame culture is a giant weakness in humans
If the Germans hadn’t got so uppity, twice, and made everyone spend a fortune on them, you have to wonder how much more advanced the world would have been for the ordinary person.
@@jackworsley2562 Probably not by much as wars generally accelerate technological development.
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II. An estimated 0.8-3.8 million people died.
I'm a bastard Brit. Your welcome 😀
You’re** get your bastard punctuation right! From another bastard!
You're
@@vilebrequin6923 Apologies
The Grammar Police are compulsive pickers. They correct everyone who doesn't measure up to their exacting standards. And they often do it in public. Some may feel they're 'giving a service' and some may feel they're 'educating the less well informed', while others are just vicious busy-bodies.
just a brit here , don't worry world , we love you and we are happy to have made your life as anjoyable as we could ;) it's been a pleasure
we also fought a war to end slavery us not America
The UK only finished paying off the debts incurred to end the slave trade in 2015.
Which "war" was that ?
British brought slavery to North America. Haitian Revolution 1804 British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807. Britain banned slavery in colonies in 1833. Slave owners were compensated, freed slaves received nothing. Britain supported the south in every way short of war 1861-1865. see; Trent Affair, Alabama Claims, Bermuda during the American Civil War
What a brilliant video. All those people that cry today about how bad the British empire was. Well imagine your life without the what the British gave back
I got married in 1978 and we had a Teasmaid for a present. Set the the alarm and prepare the teapot with water in the other pot. It starts to boil the water at so many minutes before the alarm goes off. Steam preasure forces the boiled water in to the prepared teapot and the alarm goes off. Theres your tea, all you gotta do is pour into your cup. Job done. Google how a teasmade works.
Weren't they great? We had a Goblin Teasmade back in the 60's, but I didn't realise teasmades were still going in the late 70's.
Of all of those - the flushing toilet is sheer genius
It's completely green energy - requires the natural forces of fluidity and gravity to dispose of natural waste ...
You really need to learn actual real history before you bad mouth the Brits. For example in India before the Brits, what happened to Indian wives when their husbands died? ........,..................................They were forcably cremated along with their husbands by the husbands family even though they hadn't actually died. The Brits outlawed this practice very shortly after gaining control.
"If You Live In Freedom Thank The British Empire" ... ua-cam.com/video/sSnJSUU_7q0/v-deo.html
Not sure he bad mouthed anyone.
A teasmade....yep, my parents, me...I had one.
BS on India.
The British were contracted by the Raj, the true rulers of India to collect taxes and administer the country.
Some of the "Evil" the British did in India includes, getting rid of murderous cults like the Thuggee, abolishing Widow burning. Almost eliminating famine, what? you say. What about the Bengal famine? Prior to British Rule there were regular famines in India two or three bad ones per decade.
During the British Administration new agricultural methods were introduced. New transport methods such as the railways, which allowed food to be transported across the country.
India's population shot up under British administration.
While individual got rich trading with India, what is the difference between them and the economic migrants plaguing the west today. Atleast back then the Indians profitted too.
The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindi rāj, 'kingdom', 'realm', 'state', or 'empire')[11][h] was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,[13] lasting from 1858 to 1947.[14] It is also called Crown rule in India,[15] or Direct rule in India.[16] The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially.[17]
Would India be lauching rockets into space without the Brits?.
Where is British space program
Which makes me ask why we still send them 8 billion in 'aid' every year. So their priorities are rockets and they have however many millions living way below the poverty line. Sounds smart. If I was signing those checks I'd have to rethink that deal.
@frayserken we don't want one, despite being early pioneers of it, as well as most of the research for the Manhattan project coming from Britain as well. They like to erase that out of the movies though. But try growing crops or putting a hospital in space. The most wasteful egotistical use of money ever. Even satellites can be sent up into the high atmosphere just using gas power, which now accounts for most of them. Space is just a complete waste of time and money. It's an ego boosting political ideology contest dressed up as some great next step in our history zzzz. Pragmatic people know there are still a million problems to solve on earth first. When all that has been dealt with maybe the British will start wasting their time and money on rockets. Until then I guess we'll still be sending billions in aid every year to India, while they piss away their GDP on 'space' and let their ppl scrap about under the poverty line. So there is that. And anyway, if Britain did have a space programme they'd keep it very quiet, and only those with a need to know would know. Even the fact they cracked the enigma code was only revealed in the 70s or 80s. They didn't proudly boast about it right after ww2. All that will do is encourage other nations to make their codes even harder to crack in the event of any future wars. I doubt many countries would have been able to resist telling the world how clever they were and had known every German plan for most of the war. Also, as they say, the smart money goes on last.
No, most of the world would still be shitting in buckets if not for the British. We basically allowed 7 extra billion people to live on this planet with all our health, education & social improvements
@@kevinpierce3458 Without a sewer system you have to reduce the population by 3/4s.
Yes you're right. God is indeed a BRIT! 😆🤣🤣. Seriously though, if you consider from all of the worlds empires throughout history, Whilst far from perfect, the British were probably the most benign as thier empire was built on trade rather than conquest, It was therefore more benificial to improve the society over which they ruled. The ancestors of British imperialism have gained so much more than they ever lost.
One thing: From 1963-1991 the UK gave us the best music ever made.
Us Brits did invent life, we invented IVF for infertile women. My mum got a teas maid (thats what an alarm clock that makes tea is called) given to her for her birthday when I was a kid and she never used it.
IVF isn’t for ‘infertile women’ it is for couples or single women who cannot conceive naturally. It is just as (if not more) often used when it is the male contribution that isn’t behaving as required.
Louise Joy Brown the first IVF baby
Your view history of British involvement in India seems rather one-sided and not well formed. I know it's very popular to demonise the British and their history, however If we are to provide a balanced view of course the British did many things that were not good, they also helped India in many different ways beyond pure economics.
I can definitely agree with this comment. I have only heard 1 side of the story. So i do agree I definitely need to figure out the other side before forming my opinion
@@dreamteamneal thanks for considering my response. At a glance the British improved or implemented; Railways and Roads, Improved Agricutlure, implemented a sophisticated legal system, improved public health and sanitation and the one that always stood out for me, they banned inhumane practices like the burning of widows (suttee) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice) and infanticide.
The British stopped SATI (widow burning)by declaring it a criminal offence.
@@LeeXRV Add Telephones, Police force, Schools. Electrical power grid and Government plus trained an Army. The British also created the countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh from Indian land to give a home for Muslim people to help stop the Muslims Hindu and Sikh people from killing each other. I know this is very controversial.
We never " colonised " India.
When we packed up 75 years ago, we actually just left.
We did leave.
Railways.
Roads.
Buildings.
Water works.
Electricity .
Hospitals.
A functioning legal system.
Police force.
Civil service.
A Navy.
An army.
An airforce.
Universities.
A common language.
Just because it fell apart at the seams or never moved on is not Britains fault.
The first thing Indians did in 1947 was split and go into a religious war that cost 1,000,000 people their lives.
It is still is on going.
An alarm clock that makes Tea was called “A Teasmade”
If you watch Queens song ‘I want to break free” you will see in the opening scene one flashing that Brian May turns off 😂
My parents had a Goblin Teasmaid
i am proud to be British.
My grandmother's uncle, Percy Shaw invented the cats eye reflector for road safety
My mother had a tea maid.
I’m sure I remember a documentary about Percy, wasn’t he from Halifax? A great Yorkshire man.
@@fififlickfi2525 yes, he was a Yorkshire man
@@laurabambam5342I thought he was from Lancashire?
@@9Curtana no Halifax born and bred
@@laurabambam5342 😭
Stanley Whittingham invented the first lithium ion battery, strange he missed that one out!
To be fair, he did say there were a zillion other things he could mention 😂
We also stopped the slave trade from Africa with our navy. Many other countries did bad things (Portuguese started the Africa Slave Trade), and are still doing them, even America, think of Iraq, Vietnam etc etc. And Russia, invading and taking over countries such as Ukraine and Georgia (not the US state). The Brits were by no means the worst.
Actually, it was the Ottomans that started the export of slaves from Africa.
the USA..... world's worst terrorists.
It was the Arab nations who started the export of slaves from Africa to their nations. Not the European nations. And when Arabs took slaves they castrated all the men, from 8 years up. And not just the balls, they also cut off their penis too along with the balls. That's why their are no black communities in the Arab world really. And Saudi Arabia only outlawed slavery and the practice that I mentioned a minute ago as late as 1962. They started to tale slaves (Swahiliees) in the 900's. Portugal being the 1st European nation ti start baking slaves started that practice in the 1500s after Columbus 'discovered' the Americas and they took around 4.5 million slaves (who were actually sold to them BY Africans, they didn't capture people themselves they bought them from African rulers and militia). Its said the Arab nations could have taken as many as 17 million over a 1000 year period. All of which is totally nuts. Britain (well England) outlawed slavery in Britain (England) in 1086, 20 yrs after William the conqueror took the throne. It was then ratified by the church in 1102. And in the late 1700s (1780s orc90s i think it was) an American slaves ran away from his slave 'master' amd was arrested and threatened to be sold to a Jamaican plantation but the matter went to court and English ppl offered to pay for the slaves legal team, but the lawyers did it pro-bono instead. The court ruled and said that a slave who sets foot on British soil is no longer a slave but a free man as the air in Britain was roo pure for a slave to breath amd only an act of larliament could change that as itd been law since 1086. Within 20 years of that ruling Britain decided that the slave trade must cease not only in the British empire but worldwide. Portugal amd Spain refused so Nritish navy blockaded Brazil until they agreed to stop the trade in slaves. There's actually a 30min documentary about all this you can find here on UA-cam actually if you're interested. It actually quite good and made in response to something the comedian Frakie Boyle said and wrote in a newspaper article a number of years back.
Don’t forget nearly every country is playing a sport that Britain brought to their shores even if you have changed it slightly.
Baseball was also a British sport too that was exported to America. And it was a Scot who introduced football to Brazil.
Do the people criticizing Britain's involvement in India know better than Gandhi? Gandhi lived through British rule and although he championed independence, Gandhi held the opinion that overall the British influence was good for the areas now making up India. Even if it is only 51% v 49%, it would still be better overall. The haters focus on the lesser bad events without acknowledging the greater good things that occurred. Remember, India as a country didn't exist before the British created it. Just like the 13 colonies didn't exist. Without Britain there would be no stepping stone for America.
I'm sorry to say Gandhi was abit racist, not to mention Mother Teresa being into sadomasochism.
And after Gandhi visited South Africa his views on black people were not complimentary, to say the least.
My parents had the alarm that made tea. It was known as a teasmade. My dad loved it. You can still get them
So the original flushing toilet was called The Patent Crapper invented by Thomas Crapper. His main competition was George Bogg and sons. Hence the perfectly normal phrase in British English. "I'm going to the Bog for a crap"
reminds me of the film Carry on at Your Convenience 🚽
Except the first recorded application of crap to mean bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846, 10 years after Crapper was born, under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house.
So it’s just a coincidence that someone named Crapper invented the flushing toilet.
The flushing toilet was created by Sir John Harrington. Thomas Crapper was the first person to have a bathroom showroom that allowed people to see the fixtures of an indoor bathroom.
The flush toilet was invented by Sir Thomas Harrington, “saucy godson” of Queen Elizabeth the first, believe it or not.
Thomas Crapper did make improvements. The word “crap” is Anglo-Saxon, meaning waste matter or residue.
A lot of what happened in India was was done by the East India company and its private army, The British monarchy took advantage of that.
as a british person, your welcome lol
You’re *
nah when the british turned up in india its first law was to stop cremating the mother in laws , and stopped sectarian violence , when we moved out a million people were killed by sectarianism violence ,its also should be known many countries joined the Empire voluntarily to gain protection from a larger more aggressive neighbour, we gave them laws an education and many countries miss the brits and are proud of our shared heritage despite wars to eject us like Malaysia., thats my opinion from hardly any research , but you all are gona miss us when we are gone , and it looks like we will go with a whimper not a glorious Bang quite soon
Britain stopped women being burnt alive on the funeral fire of their husband in India, also stopped slavery
“I contend that we are the finest race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race.”
Cecil Rhodes.
@@catwoman2582 It’s not criticism. 🤔
The India and British thing, bartering comes into play. They all wanted something out of the deal, India and the Britons were involved. The Raj also comes into play.
The terms 'colonisation' and 'invading' are two different things. The British didn't really 'invade' India, that is social conscript that some have nowadays, mainly middle to upper class people see it that way with some sort of agenda that are kinda egotistical with narsasitic tendencies. You could say, 'full blown lefties in the Western world with no clue about the history'.
There was, is a 'common ground' thing going on between India and Britain (certain parts of India, Pakistan is abit complicated to some degree).
Many people from India call us 'Britishers' in a playful manner, also 'praise' us for the things. But some in certain groups and areas want radical Islam, take that as you want (but is true).
There were bad actors that were doing atrocious things, but were sorted out back in England. The pain of death for some.
Admittedly there were some bad actors that were doing atrocious things, but when brought back to England they were put on trial.
Please look at both sides of the coin.
There was no such thing as India befor the British unified it , The Indians have a lot to say but you cannot just believe what they say, The were and advanced culture and naturally highly resent getting dominated, ,,They do not ask about their own rulers befor Britain .They really should, ,,The wealthy nobility had thier wives burned after thier death.The British forbad that , Gahndi got a fait trial and did not just disapear in the night as he would have any previouse empire --- The Indian welth class got extremely rich in thier deals with Britain ,
I find it quite unsurprising that it was an Indian who shot Gandhi.
Brit here, The Japanese said Britain invented 40% of all things invented.
Bullocks.
@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 Balls yes we invented them as well.
I think that it was the Japanese who did that research.
@@9Curtana Now corrected.
@@chrisbingham3289 I wasn’t sure if the Chinese had said it as wee🤓
I think you'll really enjoy reading Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything, he's a humourous American Anglophile and he goes on to briefly describe all the major inventions around the world. Interesting and funny.
Might be in your library
I love Bill Bryson’s books.
the cat's eyes.. what an invention. They are glass reflectors in a metal case, embedded into the centre line of the road, and your headlights will pick them up as you drive towards them, guiding you along the road in a dark night. Of course, they only work where there are no deep frosts.
We brits don't think God was a Brit, we think God worked for the Brits.
😁
We literally invented everything.add football and the greatest music bands of all time
Of course I am proud to be British and I am deeply annoyed by those trying to pull us down. Notice it is just us.No one ever mentions the horrors of the Ottoman empire etc For such a small island it is extraordinary that these inventions came spilling out of the place benefiting the world. There are a lot more to be proud of not listed here in terms of sport , surgery, sanitization not to mention the Arts with Shakespear and Dickens
Cats eyes are used for road lane marking at night. Very common in the UK. Different colours are used to indicate different lanes, exist, etc.
If the British was that bad how come Another incontrovertible fact of British rule is that India's population increased more than twofold from 170 million in 1750 to 425 million in 1950, a rough measure of major improvements in public health and nutrition, despite India's cyclical famines.queen Elizabeth the first got rid of the empire way before they want to India queen Elizabeth the first ended the empire
I think you means Queen Elizabeth the second, not the first. And the Queen cannot make that decision its a governmental decision as she's a constitutional monarch not an absolute monarch. The government tell the Queen/King what to do etc and she/he then sign off on the idea or law giving it 'royal accent'. The reason the Empire came to an end after world war two was because Britain couldn't afford to keep it going and protect countries of the empire etc due to being basically bankrupt after world war two ams America pushed for an end to empire too after the war to curb the power house thatvwas the British empire. So the British government agreed to dismantle the empire but in its place created the 'British commonwealth'. The commomwralth now consists of 56 nations (I think). The Queen/King remains the monarch of 16 of them as their head of state including Australia, Canada and New Zealand amongst them. Recently Barbados voted and decided to remove the British monarchy as their monarch. But yeah, the King/Queen has no say or power of matters such as what you've said in truth. They can even be voted out pf being head of the commonwealth too actually. Its not a given right to head the commonwealth as the British monarch is head of state for all 56 nations who make it up. There was a possibility after Queen Elizabeth 2nd died that King Charles would be made to stand down as the 'head' of the commonwealth, but that hasn't happened, thus far anyway. I hope that helped clear up your little mistake there about how the Empire came to an end. It was basically forced on us by the Americans (some say it was a part of the deal with America to lend Britian billions of $/£ after WW2 to help us rebuild the country as we were practically bankrupt after the war eneded).
Also Queen Victoria was made 'Empress' of India due to the fact that her own daughter 'Vikki' had become Empress of Germany after its unification and her marriage to the Keiser of Germany (he was king of Prussia before Germany became one nation in the late 1800s and they then became Emperor and Empress). Which would mean the Vikki outranked her mother Queen Victoria and the Queen would have to curtsey to her own daughter and be of lower rank which Queen Victoria really did not like. So she was made Empress of India to avert that and make her of equal rank to her daughter. (Fun fact, lol)
Sometimes the 1st world war is referred to as the cousins war as the British, German and Russian monarchs were all related (cousins) all being related through Queen Victoria. Actually most European monarvhs to this day are all related to the British monarchy through Queen Victoria marrying off her children tocall the European Royal houses. Even the Spanish royal family is related to the Brititsh monarch as atr the Dutch and Sweedish too. I know none of this relates to the original video content in any way but I bring it up as you mentioned Queen Elizabeth. The empire actually started under Queen Elizabeth the 1st with her claiming lands in the Americas. The state of Virginia is named in honour of her. Virginia being Latin for Virgin as Queen Elizabeth 1st was commonly known as the 'Virgin Queen' due to her remaining unmarried her whole life. So the enpire started to be created under Queen Elizabeth 1st and ended under Queen Elizabeth 2nd. Quite fitting in a kinda poetic way really I think. 😊 😉
Cats' eye reflectors are small lumps of metal with two reflective pieces of glass set into them. Embedded in lines along roads, they enable easier driving at night because they reflect a vehicle's headlights and show drivers where the lanes or edges of the road are. They require no power and many British roads have them.
I've been a subscriber from early days, I have to say I'm a little disappointed in your skewed view of the British legacy in what we now call India. Trust me they were doing a lot worse to each other and would not have progressed to where they are now without the infrastructure Britain gave them, and their extremely discriminatory Caste system which is still in place in some parts today would be more prevalent had we not in the main part outlawed it.
Haha I'm in my 40s my parents had the alarm clock tea maker, i remember the boiling sound dad got up
No nations flag is without blood on it and the one thing that everyone seems to forget about being colonised by the British empire is especially within the African countries was that being part of the empire meant stopped most of the Arab countries from enslaving it's people as there feared reprisals from the British empire so stopping millions of defenseless people from being forced into chattel slavery
Cats Eyes are a reflective glass set in heavy rubber they define the centre of the carriageway and when a car drives over them the rubber contracts pushing the eye down keeping it safe and at the same time cleaning the eye. In the dark you can see the Catseyes reflecting back your headlights and defining your side of the road.
I had an alarm clock that made tea, the "Teasmade" which served me tea every morning for 30 years. I miss it to this day. I'm stereotypically English.
The funny thing with India is for every Indian who didn’t want the British their was another one who didn’t mind
do american roads not have cats eyes ? ive watched maybe 10 people react to these video and none of you guys knew what cats eyes are. Theyre the reflective things in the road that let you see the road ahead in the dark. Maybe theres a different name for them.
Maybe not cause they are on the other side of the road and don’t sit on the right side like we do we see them them out the corner of our eyes if u sit on the left your head would have to be turned to the right and not forward so it would be dangerous when you meant to be look forward while driving
You have watched 10 people react to this s video??????
The fella that invented cats eyes was a west Yorkshire man Percy Shaw was his name. He was still alive in the early 1970s I remember a TV interview with him not only did he invent them he was also made super rich by them as it was his company that made and sold them around the world I remember in the Interview he was talking about his latest invention the colour ones that shine red and green.
The thing is, he was way beyond wealthy, but he was known to be tight with money.
People say the Scots are tight, but they could learn lessons off a Yorkshire man, that's for sure.
Its ironic we never talk about all the invasions and enslave of people all over the world by the Romans,the point iam making I believe alot of the anti British empire around is basically because it's modern history, past couple of centuries etc.
It's not that iam a flag flying British man however iam becoming more grateful every day for what we have here in this tiny islands surrounded by sea as rough as they come.we did alot of good and bad but we are more free than the USA could even imagine.
During the industrial revolution, alot of things like working conditions, unions, women votes and best of all our struggling NHS that we sometimes take for granted.
I think we should have NHS day as a bank Holiday and show our appreciation for it's existence.
What came first the chicken or the egg? Neither it was the Brits 🇬🇧
My parents had an alarm clock that made tea for a little bit when I was a child. It was called a Teasmade. Not sure what happened to it but they definitely had one. I think my mum might have asked for one for Christmas or something...
About the flying shuttle and thread weaver, they significantly reduced the time it took to make clothes. Isaac Singer, the American who invented the sewing machine, before him it took about 15 hours to make a single shirt.
Before you sew though you need create threads, then weave the threads together, and then eventually sew those weaved parts together to create a garment. If the sewing took 15 hours, imagine how long it took to process the raw plant fibres into threads and then weave them together. If you needed a piece of cloth longer than the weavers arm length, it required 2 people to make, meaning it took a lot of man power and time just to produce 1 item of clothing like a shirt.
The flying shuttle, spinning jenny and power loom essentially made it so instead of it taking 2/3 weeks for make 1 shirt, now it only took 1 day.
In the 1970s virtually every british family had an alarm clock that made tea.
This video Ladies & Gentlemen gives you a small insight as to why the UNITED KINGDOM is the GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD. Fact. 👀🤔😁
Believe it or not, some of the earliest internal combustion engines were British as early as 1796, way before Otto Diesel invented his 4 stroke heavy oil engine in 1860. In fact an Englishman, Samuel Brown, developed an internal combustion engine which was the basis of the first IC engines used commercially in the US in 1823.
The "alarm clock that makes tea" is a thing and is quite common. They're known as a "Teasmade" and lots of Brits have one.
its ok as a british man we dont care if you dont like us,,,,your just jellious
It’s always Indians calling me and asking for my bank details as there’s a problem with erroneous payments from my account.There so helpful, where would we be without them.
It's called a "Teasmade". It's basically a tea maker controlled by a timer linked to the alarm clock. It brews the tea to coincide with the alarm so it's ready when you are!
Britain invented the police force and fingerprinting, pocket calculator, hovercraft.
As an Englishman, a Scotsman is Scottish, unless they're an inventor, then they're British.
It’s only the Scottish who whine over such things when it comes to the UK. Englishmen don’t give a crap. They are basically British. 🤷🏻♀️
Scottish are from Scotland, Welshman from Wales…. Englishmen are automatically British by default. 😂
I have only just reached 6 minutes 50 seconds and I have 1 minor point for you, inside the engine you do not find a 'Pistol', you find an actual 'Piston' which contained seals called 'Piston Rings' which helped seal the pistons in the engine thus increasing the power output due to less loss of said power generated!
Tea makers were the thing to have in the 70s, bit of a status symbol for the working class in the UK.
are you a fan of the Indian caste system?
He forgot to mention the founder of satellite system. Arthur C. Clarke.. another Brit
It’s called “Teasmade”, you can’t get up in the morning without a cup of tea.
Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the toilet but did make them, hence the term “having a Crap”
The trouble is that in the 1700’s every country was an empire in the making but Britain gets all the bad rap because the we’re technically advanced and got there first but France and Germany were close behind so one European country or another was always going to get that dubious honour by getting there first , it just happened to be us and we have been slated for it ever since
I used to have a “ teasmade alarm clock, it would boil water and syphon it into to cups and the morning alarm would go off as the tea was poured
The British made the women of India have better life’s cause they be living like they do in Iran and we paid them back for all that money we took by giving them antibiotics that’s saves millions everyday
"If You Live In Freedom Thank The British Empire" ... ua-cam.com/video/sSnJSUU_7q0/v-deo.html
Plus, David - I believe that the UK has been giving India about twelve billion pounds a year and for all I know, still are. Strange then isn't it that India recently sent a rocket into space etc.... when this country can't afford to? As the comedian Al Murray once said - "We didn't go to the moon, no, what would be the point? it was never going to be part of the British Empire, there isn't anybody to give it back to, there isn't anyone living there, so no need to install railway systems, parliamental democracy or trial by jury. Plus, why would the British, who invented gravity, want to go to a place where there isn't any?"
I was a child of the 80's and my parents had a tea maker alarm clock.
The weird thing about "The British Empire is maybe that the British people where ruled in the same way!" If ya ever meet a down too Earth person from these Isles they will love you regardless!
You made me laugh ... God was British, haha ... just about I reckon. 🤣🤣 Hi from NZ.
If I remember correctly during the 80's / 90's Argos and Index used to have a huge selection of alarm clocks which made tea for sale.
😂😂yes I remember that!!
I don't see how any people can be accused of causing a famine, it is usually bad weather and disease that causes famine. Plus if you are being attacked, you fight back, it's just the human way of behaving.
The "Teas Maid" was popular in the past, but you don't see them anymore.
Famines can be either caused by nature or be man made. It’s that there isn’t enough food for everyone. For example the Potato Famine was man made because there was enough food being produced in Ireland but it was being exported by the British. Leaving the Irish with what wasn’t affected by the potato blight. This is just a recorded fact. Not every famine is caused by poor conditions for crops…just as it is in actual fact the decisions of very few that cause a man made famine that a whole group of countries and their populations are saddled with the blame for.
We Brits invented Touch Screen technology without which we wouldn't have our present day mobile phones and touch screen underwater hand held tablets.
I had one of the very first touch screen monitors as my hubbie worked for the company that invented touch screens where they worked out how to 'bound the screen' and wrote the software and created the first head held underwater touch screen monitors.The company was originally called Microtouch was founded in the late 1980's, then 3M acquired it 2 years after my hubbie left, in the mid 90s, then later a US company bought Microtouch business and name from 3M.
the one thing that would be different about India if the British empire never went there is that that would never be a country called India, there would be more different countries since it has over 2,000 ethnic groups and it was Britain was the only country that was able to unify the whole sub continent.
If you look into all of it deeper you will find most of it was the Scottish!
Hence British,
My parents had an alarm clock that made tea. It was called a 'teasmaid'.
Do you not have "cats eyes" on the roads in the USA? For when it's dark?
They basically stick out of the road in line with the lane markings and reflect back the car's headlights in various colours ...
Red means avoid, green means a slip-road exit or entrance, white is just usually down the centre of the road to mark out the lines in the dark
Also, every time your tyre runs over them, the rubber covering squashes down and cleans the lens for a bright reflection.
The British also stopped the burying alive of lepers. Also, the British went home eventually. Depending on sources, in the 900 (?) years before the British arrived, the largely Hindu population was at constant war with the, er, Mughal invaders, estimated at 50m deaths. The Brits left, the Mughals are still there...
Lots of african tribes have butchered and enslaved millions of other tribes over the centuries, they just couldn't read or write so very scant documentation. Spend your time diving into that history.
The British modelled themselves on the Romans.Both weren't particularly violent.They built their wealth on trade.Thats why they lasted so long.Amongst other things, like rule of law,democracy,Not eating people(which was common practice in the Pacific,)solving tribal disputes,creating trade routes,bringing modern medicine into different countries,introducing agriculture to hunter gatherers,Introducing literature and schools,and the biggest damn thing in the world(that helps everyone get through shit!) 😢...TV.
Nuff said.
"The bad outweighs the good" - this from a 'Murcan whose predecessors conducted the first mass genocide of the modern era when they exterminated indigenous Native American peoples.
You do realise one of the biggest markets for Rolls Royces were Indian Maharaja's
My parents have a teasmade (the alarm clock that makes tea) - I have been wanting to get a vintage one for years. They are the high point of civilisation for sure 😂
England pioneered industrial steam power because its high quality coal mines easily flooded and its overall topography was very flat. That meant the first steam powered pumps for mines could break even at 5% efficiency at the pit head. Needless to say, once that happened, money for more improvements in steam engine efficiency flooded in and then railways, steam engine powered mills, etc., became huge wealth creators.
The Indian like to argue a lot about how bad the British is, imagine what your nation would’ve been if the British didn’t arrive, hundred of nations state fighting
The cats eye reflector is set into road lanes and reflect from car headlights in different colours to show lane demarcation.
My parents had a 'Teas-Maid' back in the early 1970's! I remember it well, but personally I prefer the Clock Radio Alarm!
Modern sport? Football, rugby, cricket, rounders. Rounders being baseball basically.
I doubt anyone still uses the tea making alarm clock
They started to go out of fashion when I was a child
I am in my sixties
Haven't seen one for years
My mum still used one bless her this was 4 yrs ago
I'm a cleaner one of my house's has one
We saved hundreds of thousand womens lives in India. We banned Sati, the practice of burning widows on the husbands funeral pyre.