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Considerations of social efficiency would compel us to recognise that the greatest evil in the industrial system is not so much poverty and the suffering that it involves, as the fact that so many persons have callings which make no appeal to those who are engaged in them. Such callings constantly provoke one to aversion, ill will and the desire to evade.
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
But at the best of times, the press has viewed drought and scarcity as events. And the belief that only events make news, not processes, distorts understanding.
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
P Sainath
Around the time when Clive assumed government control of tax collection in India, MPs voted on whether to retain the Company’s legal distinctiveness from the Crown. Among those who voted on the decision, ‘nearly a quarter of them held company stock, which would have plummeted in value had the Crown taken over.’ It would be another century before the company was formally dissolved, in 1873, with handsome compensation paid by the government to the company’s investors. The Prime Minister at the time, Benjamin Disraeli, helped secure Queen Victoria the title of Empress of India, and a new era of ‘authorized’ imperialism began. As George Trefgarne writes, ‘the freebooting era of “informal empire” finally came to an end, and the short-lived period of “formal empire” replaced it.’
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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