धर्म’ शब्द को अब अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोशों में भी शामिल किया जाने लगा है। (उदाहरण के लिए, चैम्बर्स ट्‌वेंटिएथ सेंचुरी डिक्शनरी में ‘धर्म’ का अर्थ ‘राइशियसनेस दैट अण्डर… - Shashi Tharoor

simple logic of colonialism, under which the rules of humanity applied only to the rulers, for the rulers were people and the people were objects. Objects to be controlled, disciplined, kept in their place and taught lessons like so many animals:

The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, as the British economic historian Angus Maddison has demonstrated, India’s share of the world economy was 23 per cent, as large as all of Europe put together. (It had been 27 per cent in 1700, when the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s treasury raked in £100 million in tax revenues alone.) By the time the British departed India, it had dropped to just over 3 per cent. The reason was simple: India was governed for the benefit of Britain. Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in India.