The way media is eulogising Queen Elizabeth on her death after living four years short of a century by way of showing her as benign, kind and what not, is just a cover-up for two hundred plus years of brutal colonial past of UK or Britain or England.
It is true that a Queen or King is not directly or personally responsible for the cruelties and brutalities done by way of laws passed through the UK Parliament, but it goes in the name of the King or Queen, whether it was King George V and VI in India or Queen Elizabeth in Kenya, ironically where she was declared Queen of the Empire after the worst brutalities of colonial Britain took place. There was not a word of sympathy or disapproval from her.
One cannot undo the past, yet one has to remember it. It is necessary to look at history and individuals in an objective manner and that is what British scholar John Newsinger had done in his path-breaking book –The Blood Never Dried. The column, Relook At a Book, is being replugged in Newsclick in the wake of the defence of the
— source newsclick.in | Chaman Lal | 16 Sep 2022