Comments on: The Surveying of India by the British https://www.brownpundits.com/2022/06/20/the-surveying-of-india-by-the-british/ A discussion of all things Brown.. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:13:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bhimrao https://www.brownpundits.com/2022/06/20/the-surveying-of-india-by-the-british/#comment-98349 Sat, 25 Jun 2022 18:55:19 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=16891#comment-98349 These guys were ordinary spies. ‘Explorer’, ‘Age of Discovery’ business is full of fake heroes and Europeans blowing their own trumpet.

Wasn’t surveying just another job albeit a somewhat technical one by 19th century? What was so special about these British collaborators and spies? This area was no south pole, tens of millions of people lived here.

Reminds me of how British make up stories about building the railways. As if they were personally fighting 100 ft tall Tsavo Dragons hand-to-hand. One only needs to look at China or Japan infra built without western help or making so much noise to see how silly these colonial stories sound.

]]> By: Brown https://www.brownpundits.com/2022/06/20/the-surveying-of-india-by-the-british/#comment-98303 Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:16:53 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=16891#comment-98303 i have worked with some white british people in my career. i have found that many of these people born in late forties and early fifties were good in their work and were also fair minded.
the younger ones are bit clueless and unnaturally politically correct.

]]> By: bb3570 https://www.brownpundits.com/2022/06/20/the-surveying-of-india-by-the-british/#comment-98222 Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:54:44 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=16891#comment-98222 My great-great-grandfather was a surveyor. He was involved in the survey of Western Ghats along TN-Kerala border.

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