"I spent six months studying the wills of members of the East India Company. Everyone was told to make a will when they were in India. People wrote incredibly honest accounts of their lives,바카라 William Dalrymple recalled. 바카라Eventually, I realised that one in three Englishmen was leaving all his goods to an Indian or an Anglo-Indian woman. This meant that strategic marriage alliances were successfully incorporated to expand the Empire,바카라 he said. Dalrymple, a renowned Scottish historian, was speaking at an event organised on November 25, by the Irish Embassy and the British High Commission jointly. He was in conversation with Irish historian Jane Ohlmeyer on the topic 바카라Ireland, India and Empire.바카라 The lively session between the two stalwarts was moderated by Indian historian Swapna Liddle.
In their discussions on the complex historical relations between the Empire, Ireland and India, Dalrymple and Ohlmeyer highlighted the significance of marriage alliances in understanding the history of racism. Both the historians explained how racism could be traced in the Empire바카라s history by looking at the records of inter-racial marriages, which bred hybridity. Ohlmeyer also pointed out how women were key figures in this history. 바카라The British saw them as 바카라civilisers바카라 who would civilise the barbarous Irish.바카라
Through the course of the conversation, Ohlmeyer also mentioned how she came to write about Ireland바카라s relationship to the Empire. She stated that her latest book 바카라Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World바카라바카라 which also had its Delhi launch at the event바카라 materialised at the height of people-led movements like 바카라Statues Must Fall바카라 and 바카라Black Lives Matter.바카라 Her motivation behind writing this book was to interrogate how Ireland was made by the Empire. Ohlmeyer claims that the Irish have historically been both victims as well as active perpetrators of imperialism. 바카라To understand the Empire today, it is important to go back to its birth. I look at Empire through the prism of Ireland,바카라 she said.
According to her, the language of racism that was born in the Irish context was taken by the Empire across the world. She pointed out that the most important part of Ireland바카라s relation to the Empire was its human capital바카라 not just land, but also labour. 바카라The Irish served as indentured labour in the Caribbean, while the whole economy of Ireland was restructured to feed the Empire,바카라 Ohlmeyer stated.
At the event바카라held at The Leela Palace, New Delhi바카라 the Ambassador of Ireland, Kevin Kelly spoke about the complexity of India and Ireland바카라s relationship. He emphasized the need to understand it beyond a mere imperial framework, owing to the fact that the Irish people both resisted as well as contributed to the British Raj (Empire). The British High Commissioner, Lindy Cameron addressed the importance of looking backwards to chart a way forward, in terms of the relations between India and UK as well as UK and Ireland. She acknowledged that the event with the historians was organised with this agenda in mind.
The enthralling conversation between the two historians ended with Ohlmeyer바카라s opinion that there is a need to come to terms with the legacy of the Empire. She said that many steps were being taken towards this, as academics proceed towards looking at materials that were plundered by the Empire, such as manuscripts and texts. To this, Liddle added that Indian scholars and historians must also be a part of the process of examining these plundered objects and contributing to it with their expertise. Ohlmeyer agreed and stated, 바카라History in the wrong hands can be a very dangerous political weapon. But in the right hands, it can lead towards understanding and healing.바카라
