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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    It seems harsh to define him as racist. He was an Edwardian, maybe even Victorian gentleman; his views on race were on the liberal side of prevailing attitudes.

    I've considered Winston at some length and have come to the conclusion that, overall, he was pretty alright.
    Oh, he was an anti-Indian racist, C.

    As you say, a lot of his class were. But a lot who had been there, whether George Orwell or Douglas Jardine loved the place.

    He just hated the fact that they wanted independence and without India our empire, which he loved, was pointless.

    As you say, he was a Victorian. But there were lots of Indophile Victorians just like there were lots of racist ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
    Oh, he was an anti-Indian racist, C.

    As you say, a lot of his class were. But a lot who had been there, whether George Orwell or Douglas Jardine loved the place.

    He just hated the fact that they wanted independence and without India our empire, which he loved, was pointless.

    As you say, he was a Victorian. But there were lots of Indophile Victorians just like there were lots of racist ones.
    By the way, the language is Sinhala, the ethnicity Sinhalese.

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