#The British Raj

[kumrattourism]

Historical Heritage of Pakistan: Exploring the Rich Cultural Legacy of the Land of Pure

Pakistan is a country with a rich and diverse cultural history that has been shaped by centuries of influence from various civilizations and empires. From the ancient Indus Valley Civilization to the Mughal Empire and beyond, the land of Pakistan has a plethora of historical sites and artifacts that showcase the rich cultural heritage of the country. In this article, we will explore the…

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#and architecture #archaeological site #art #Beginning of Modern Pakistan #Chanhudara Archaeological Site. #famous Sikh landmarks in Pakistan #Historical Heritage of Pakistan #historical sites and artifacts #Indus Valley Civilization #Mughal Empire #Sikh landmarks in Pakistan #tapestry of culture #The British Raj #The Cradle of Civilization #The Sikh Empire #The Sikh rulers

[janetsnakehole02]

This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).

Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”

This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.

edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.

#that being said #my thoughts are also w the middle and working classes of the uk who will now unfortunately have to bear the brunt of the aftermath of this #of course they’d force a ‘period of mourning’ on everyone 🙃 #anyway #ding dong the bitch is dead #queen elizabeth #elizabeth ii #george v #anti british #british royal family #british raj #british colonialism #fuck the british #fuck colonialism #desiblr #desi tumblr #desi tag #indian #india #indian independence movement #hyderabad #telangana #telugu #south india

[mat2modblog]

Bruh.

#spider-man india #Pavitr Prabhakar #spider man across the spider verse #spider-man #marvel #guess even in a universe where New York is part of India the British Raj happened? #astv #spider man #spideman #across the spiderverse

[whatjaswatched]

I finally got around to watching Dunkirk.

Whilst the movie was well made, the erasure of Sikh and Indian soldiers from European history cuts me deeply (as the great granddaughter of the British Indian army’s Sikh men).

Normally, I post pictures or gifs of the actual film with my thoughts but honestly, this time, fuck that.

Look upon the faces of the forgotten. Those who gave everything to defend freedom, while their own homeland was being oppressed.

#dunkirk #the Raj #British Indian army #Christopher Nolan #erasure #fucking colonisers #Harry styles #Tom hardy #cillian murphy #fionn whitehead #jack lowden #kenneth branagh #mark rylance #aneurin barnard #calam lynch #michael caine #Kim hartman #dunkirk 2017

[nickysfacts]

Sari is basically like be swaddled, but in a feminine way with style and beauty!

🥻🇮🇳🥻

#history #sari #india #fashion #indus river valley civilization #fashion history #traditional dress #femininity #ancient #indigenous culture #indian history #british raj #saree #antriya #uttariya #indian culture #girly things #coqeutte #cottagecore #womens history #clothing #womenhood #girlhood #stylish #ancient history #historical clothing

[zvaigzdelasas]

Lol never realized china borders with india three fuckjng times until now

Not an accident! British Raj was very valuable to the British not only for the labour & resources of the Raj itself, but also its proximity to China. Most Sino-Indian border conflicts today are based off this.

#the jammu/kashmir conflict is also heavily influenced by powerplays of the british raj #even beyond the 'splitting the region in the first place' thing #jammu kashmir & aksai chin are basically the same territorial conflict in a lot of ways #both go back to gulab singh & his principality devolving into a sikh puppet state to the raj after defeat

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

March 29th, 1849: Punjab is annexed into the United Kingdom.

#history #world history #uk #india #british raj #punjab

[ancientorigins]

Sanatan Shastar Vidya is an ancient Indian martial art that dates back thousands of years, but was eventually banned by the British Raj who feared the skilled warriors.

#India #Spiritualism #martial arts #Gatka #Raj #British #Sikh #ancient #history #ancient origins

[rewrite-canon]

not the only indian character working for the british monarchy!! FREE SHAAN FREE MY PEOPLE RISE RISE RISE

#this is a joke but also not really 😭😭 #so british raj of them!! #<- an actual joke like its not that serious. #still puts a sour taste in my mouth 💀 #bc. ​erm. what the flip casey😂 #down with the british monarchy. including the gay fictional leftist progressive one that exists here. #shaan srivastava #rwrb #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #prince henry #henry fox mountchristen windsor #rewriting

[fatimajpeg]

the red shoes (1948) will always be better than black narcissus (1947) like don’t play with me first of all the red shoes indulges in fantasy, artifice and theatrical tragedy in a way that black narcissus is absolutely incapable of. also the orientalist and colonialist gaze that permeates throughout black narcissus just blindsided me honestly why does the beauty of the Himalayan valleys need to be contextualised as alien, hostile & hypnotic exotic forces that compels the missionaries on a path of obsession and self-destruction (also how it’s this exotic land where the nuns want to break their vow of celibacy like ok lol). why can’t it just be set dressing to the story in the same way as the idyllic EURO sceneries were in red shoes. also the brownface ew

#when the wild indian girl is just a white dancer painted brown 😍 #also thru out i couldn’t stop thinking that they filmed black narcissus while we were still under british raj … lol

[historical-beauty-lily]

Devdas (2002) dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

#source: historical beauty lily #period drama #devdas #aishwarya rai #parvati #Paro #bengali saree #bollywood #hindi cinema #19th century #1900s #white #red #british raj #perioddramaedit #edit #sanjay leela bhansali #india #indian cinema #gold #saree #sari #indian fashion

[silvandar]

To all the Leftist white people whining about the way the British are portrayed and discussed in Ms Marvel...

You are not supposed to feel comfortable when discussing colonisation, genocide, and atrocities.

Read that again.

Oppressed people are always told they cannot speak about their oppression. Or if they can, they have to "consider both sides", "think about historical context", anything to make the white people comfortable. Comfortable by dissociation from it, by othering it, by using cognitive dissonance to remove themselves from it.

This allows white people to nod, say "oh yes, it was terrible", then go right back to their lifestyles powered by third world suffering, international oppression, and the benefits of historical and ongoing colonialism.

If you truely believe you are Left, then you need to accept being uncomfortable when confronted with the voices of oppressed and colonised peoples. Sit with that discomfort, and listen to what is being said to you.

Sincerely,

A white British Anglo-Indian person who loved every moment of Ms Marvel and cried at the partition stories.

#ms marvel show #ms marvel series #ms marvel #ms. marvel #ms.marvel #mcu #marvel #colonialism #oppression #partition #raj india #genocide #atrocity #british rule #british empire #british colonialism #capitalism #democratic socialism

[vox-anglosphere]

Reflections of India's most famous building, bathed in evening light.

#Taj Mahal #Agra #India #mausoleum #sunset #reflections #minarets #sacred space #evening light #holy sites #shrines #Commonwealth #British Empire #The Jewel in the Crown #Raj

[thedreadvampy]

so me and Sam FINALLY watched the last season of Capaldi's Who

and tell me how, after literally over a decade and for perhaps the first time in his fucking career, Steven Moffat wrote a not just tolerable but really actually good two-parter and fully stuck the landing. like the editing and pacing were still a bit off but the storyline was original, fun, interesting and emotionally invested, and most importantly, rather than ending on a damp fart or the most furious autofellatio in history, the final part didn't fumble it and ended in a way that felt emotionally satisfying and like it made sense for the characters. like the last time he successfully wrapped up a multiparter in a way that didn't feel cheap and hollowly disappointing to me was literally The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and a) that was in 2005 and b) tbh The Doctor Dances is about a tenth as compelling and memorable as The Empty Child.

so after 12 years of either hackery or great ideas that fall apart in the second act, Steven Moffat writes what I would genuinely consider to be a memorable Good Doctor Who serial. it ends with bittersweet pathos, a solid closer for all the main characters, and sends Moffat's showrunning career out on a genuine high despite failing ratings and budget cuts (and the fact Doctor Who hasn't been consistently good since about 2009). good job Steve. with grudging respect I admit you pulled it out of the bag on this one.

wait what's this there's one more episode left? and it stars Mark Gatiss? and you literally spend the whole episode inexplicably just shitting all over the legacy of Doctor Who by inventing a version of the First Doctor that bears literally no resemblance to the character that William Hartnell actually played, just so you can spend the whole episode saying misogynistic things to run yourself off to how much more Totally Feminist your version was than the version you made up in your head of what Doctor Who was like in the 60s? and it added literally nothing to the season except to take all the wind out of the sails of the actually good finale you already wrote?

even when he writes a good episode this fucker still finds ways to disappoint me.

#red said #as I remembered it is by a LONG shot the best that Doctor Who has been under Moffat and I do think giving Capaldi more creative control #helped a lot. cause he's a massive nerd and also he approximately knows how to construct a story. #bill is the first female companion Moffat has ever written with an actual fucking personality #(even if being mean that personality is maybe kind of just what you'd get if you put rose Martha and Donna in a blender) #(at least she's not a blank slate with the words SASSY. SEXY. written on it) #matt Lucas is genuinely surprising bc despite hating the man it's kind of impossible to not like Nardole by the end?? #michelle gomez finally gets some room to get her Anthony Ainley on and be the Master PROPERLY #i was hooting and clapping my hands at the John Sim Master's dumb disguise #like the cast is GREAT #(and while he still can't shut the fuck up about her at least Moffat isn't shoving River fucking Song down my throat 24/7) #buuuuuuuut uhhhh the politics are. incoherent and the vibes are rancid in a lot of the episode plots. #they clearly WANT to do Social Commentary but weirdly keep bringing up colonialism and capitalism and then taking the side of the baddies? #how are you doing to do a piece about the British Empire colonising Mars with a posh villain and a whole comparison to the British Raj #then come down on the side of the British state? same with the ninth legion piece? and the zombie spacesuit one is fun #but it wraps up with 'and then they complained to upper management and capitalism ended forever the end' #uhhhhh in the one with the microbot colony again we conclude the Morally Correct Answer is colonialism #don't get me started on the monks plot which is a) literally just ripping off the Year That Never Was but without the emotional impact #but also b) has some really weird and genuinely fucked up ideas about both geopolitics and uhhhh consent???? #so yeah the philosophical core is either incoherent or Fucking Horrendous in almost every episode #it's frequently derivative but tbh that's often to its benefit bc it vibes like trying to figure out what actually makes episodes memorable #and the budget is clearly cut to the bone bc the visual effects look worse than 2005 and the post edits are really weird and janky #like the pacing and ordering is weirdly off and a lot of the shot to shot transitions are awkward or confusing. #plus the sound design in the first few eps is. unhinged. it sounds like offbrand versions of standard stings it's all just Slightly Wrong #but for real i liked it more than I've liked any other season of Moffat Who. it's messy incoherent and often politically INFURIATING #but it has some actual heart and energy. and it feels like doctor who. and i would say moffat is spending like 10% as much time #wanking over his own past triumphs (and Alex Kingston) #and a lot more time like. trying to write something which works. he's not like successful 100% of the time. or even 50%. #but there's a lot more warmth and creativity. mackie capaldi and lucas have actual chemistry as a core cast #and i think it helps that everyone in the core cast is SO PSYCHED TO BE THERE. like it just wasn't a slog like all Moffat's other seasons.

[nainawithspecs]

A courtesan in early 1900's who might also secretly be an author advocating for independence through their writings? Yes please

#desi women #vintage bollywood #desiblr #desi #desi tag #desi moodboard #desi music #desi dark academia moodboard #desi dark aesthetic moodboard #desi dark academia #desi light academia moodboard #desi light academia #indian dark academia #indian moodboard #mine #moodboard #yes that is farida jalal #ok but the way courtesans were supposed to be the most intelligent and articulate individuals in society #this is very much a possibility #even though their status declined during the british raj

[paletapessoal]

Copper and silver coffee and tea service, 19th Century, Raj period, Kashmir region.

#19th century #19th century art #home decor #teacup #tea service #tea culture #1800s art #teapot #coffee pot #kashmir #british raj #copper #silverware #paleta post