Our soldier, their enemy. Our terrorist, their Hero. Rollercoaster of emotions. Read on …
Brave World
14 Saturday Feb 2015
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14 Saturday Feb 2015
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Our soldier, their enemy. Our terrorist, their Hero. Rollercoaster of emotions. Read on …
Impractical Dreamer: Sweety Shinde 
Menachem Begin was branded as a “terrorist” for fighting against the British. Later, when he became Prime Minister of Israel, he was called a “freedom fighter” and a “national hero”. As Mr. Kurup said it is a matter of perspective
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Exactly! I would love to read what British school textbooks say about India’s freedom struggle and its freedom fighters. Any idea?
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You might want to read a book titled “Access to History: Britain and India 1845-1947” written by Tim Leadbeater. I have not read this book yet. I understand this is a very popular book in British schools.
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I will search if available on Amazon etc. Will be interesting to know ‘their’ story. Thank you for the recommendation!
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I just looked it up on Amazon Kindle with ‘Look inside book’ feature.
As I feared, the short sample mentioned ‘British paternalistic concern after conquest of Indian land – and then goes on to list abolition of Sati and human sacrifice ‘ then followed by ‘Mutiny born of unreasoning suspicion and ignorance.’
Yikes! And they this is used as a textbook!
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