{"id":14878,"date":"2010-11-27T04:35:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T10:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14878"},"modified":"2010-11-27T04:35:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T10:35:14","slug":"james-woudhuysen-when-churchill-starved-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14878","title":{"rendered":"James Woudhuysen: When Churchill starved India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, as Britain seeks diplomatic links with India and as Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee\u2019s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>James Woudhuysen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s conduct in the Indian subcontinent has largely disappeared from memory \u2013 at least in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after British prime minister David Cameron had pleased his hosts during a visit to India earlier this year by contending that some in Pakistan were \u2018looking both ways\u2019 over the question of the Taliban, it was discovered that his great-great-grandfather took part in the bloody suppression of the Indian Mutiny, which began in 1857. <em>The Sunday Times<\/em> simply reported the news with the tongue-in-cheek headline \u2018By jingo, PM\u2019s family killed for the empire\u2019. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/site\/reviewofbooks_article\/9943\/\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as Britain seeks diplomatic links with India and as Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee\u2019s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading. James Woudhuysen Britain\u2019s conduct in the Indian subcontinent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3RY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14879,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14878\/revisions\/14879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}