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Negative sentiment informed by unfamiliarity or lack of first hand information, can be dispelled through informed intellectual discourse. Britain is neither unfamiliar about India or lack first hand knowledge about her ex colony. Britain's loathing for india stems from 300 years of historical...

The point is why should we be bothered about it. For the educated British, India of the raj was the lost Camelot, the high point of their civilization and the Indian, the proverbial fly in ointment, the one who ruined the melancholy reverie. I would rather spend our intellectual capital on...

British elites always had a disdain for india and this probably has its roots in the empire. We often mistake British fascination for India for its own merit, it's wrong. British obsession is with the raj and what meant for Britain. A cursory look at the plethora of British literature on South...