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On the West Bengal border with Bangladesh the line is thin between the twilight and conflict zones
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On the West Bengal border with Bangladesh the line is thin between the twilight and conflict zones
Published: August 3, 2021 at 7:09 am The 70th anniversary of Indian independence triggered a remarkable outpouring of post-colonial guilt in Britain. For a younger generation with no first-hand experience of it, empire is now a dirty word – an evil occupation of other people’s countries in order to plunder their wealth. The idea that imperialism could be a benevolent, modernising force, involving collaboration and exchange between rulers and ruled, is now deeply unfashionable. And yet the survival of the British Raj in India for almost two centuries is impossible to explain with...