![]() ![]() The 5% will be liable on the full invoice cost, including the buyer's premium, the fee for live bidding if applicable and any other charges. However, as Guernsey is outside the EU, all items (excluding books) will be liable to import VAT if imported into the UK, at the reduced rate of 5% for antiques. Watch the full talk here.*** UK BUYERS - PLEASE NOTE: Our buyer's premium is 17.5% of the hammer price, with no VAT payable on the premium. Recently, Sarmaya Talks speaker and the highly respected historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee explained exactly what made this year so significant to Indian history-it briefly allowed us the opportunity to voice our dissent, take charge of our land and attempt to write a better future for ourselves. Modern historians, of course, have dismantled many of these narratives. The truth of the British as invaders and oppressors stood undisputed for a long time. Isn’t it ironic that while the British were to be applauded for being faithful to their beliefs, values and country, Indians doing the same were vilified and called hooligans? Not one of the five books written by British diplomats and officials takes into account the perspective of the Indian people. A feat which will always remain on record to tell how Englishmen can fight, and how English men and women can die for their Queen, their country, and their God.” His book opens with a note to the Queen quoting “the trials and hardships faced by your subjects in the East. Mecham too states his utter disappointment in the rebellion, using a tone of surprise that the oppressed had the audacity to fight back. ‘Interior of the Residency Billiard’s Room’ from Atkinson’s book Several Christian missionaries were brought to the subcontinent to open schools and churches to convert Hindus and Muslims so that they would align with Western sensibilities. They also forced their own beliefs upon the Indians, instead of allowing them to follow their own religious views. Indian soldiers were subjected to harsher conditions and not given the same rights or privileges as their British counterparts. ![]() The British made it a point to segregate the cantonments of the British soldiers from those of Indian soldiers. Ball states, “the local officials even sent out an appeal regarding to the highest authorities in England, which resulted in the cartridges to be made and greased locally, using anything other than animal fat so as not to hurt the sentiments of the Indian sepoys.” This tale may cast the British in a sympathetic light, but is far from the truth. ‘The Massacre at Delhi’ from Colin Campbell’s bookīall and Campbell staunchly continue to defend the British and their understanding of the Indian belief system. Ball, Campbell and other British historians believe that it was just a “matter of the cartridges and the introduction to the conversion to Christianity that prompted the revolt of the Indian sepoys against their rulers,” while in truth it was a build-up of a series of atrocities committed by the British against the Indians that actually caused it. ![]() Campbell states that the British never meant to compromise the sensitivities of Indians towards their own religious beliefs, and that “there seems to be little doubt that offence has been given in terms of caste to the troops.” Contrary to this opinion, Indians felt ill-treated by the British who thoroughly demeaned everything about them - from physical appearance to faith. Sir Colin Campbell’s book, Narrative of the Indian Revolt from its outbreak to the capture of Lucknow, c.1858, was also very much in favour of the British. Cover of ‘Narrative of the Indian Revolt from its outbreak to the capture of Lucknow’, c.1858 by sir Colin Campbell ![]()
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