When and why did the British first choose to invade India? - India Today

The British first landed in India in Surat for the purpose of trade. Here’s how and why a simple trading company, the British East India Company, became one of the biggest challenges the subcontinent had ever dealt with.

The British landed in India in Surat on August 24, 1608. While India has a rich and recorded history going back 4000 years to the Indus Valley Civilisation in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Britain had no indigenous written language until the 9th century almost 3000 years after India. Then how was it possible for the British to start capturing this huge country and control it from 1757 to 1947?

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“Doctors nationwide are questioning what is so difficult about enacting a law for our security,” Dhruv Chauhan, from the Indian Medical Association’s Junior Doctors’ Network, told the Press Trust of India news agency. “The strike will continue until all demands are formally met.”

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I’m aware, but haven’t figured out how to login as such. And I need to keep some order amongst the accounts.

And, yes, it’s vegan btw.

I should migrate to my .vg account.

It wasn’t unique, it wasn’t a “one off”. The unique framing appeals to conservatives as it feeds into exceptionalism and impunity. “We’re special!” It’s those people who only care about stuff when it happens to them. Same as with abortions and “The only moral abortion is my abortion”.

Fundamentally, this is evidence of the failure to generalize learning (what learning is for), a grand failure of intelligence.

Israel is a semi-autonomous US military base and state.

That’s why I got a harmonica.

In bad economic times, specialists lose out more to generalists.

They’re artificial volcanoes/geysers.

Glad I didn’t read it.

Time to mention Sapolsky with relevant context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNMLlX7tyQk

I clarified how it depends. The answer was “it depends”, which is a very displeasing answer, so I skipped a step.

37g is still low. A good target to aim for is 100g.

It kisses goodbye your asshole. Don’t forget from whence thy sheit falls.

You add the repairs to the price.

If you’re creating a luxury house/apartment, well, the word “luxury” is already there.

This isn’t about people getting a place to live, this is speculation, like Bitcoin, but with housing. There’s a mass of people buying housing to commodify it by selling it later at a huge price or by renting it out. This mass of people got scammed by housing developers who promised to deliver the apartment or house (at a good quality). Unfortunately, that didn’t happen; developers ran ponzi schemes. They used investors’ money to start new constructions and attract new investors, and stopped working on the old constructions or finished them poorly with bad materials.

This is how capitalism works unregulated. So the small investors fucked around trying to become petite bourgeoisie, and they’re finding out the beauty of capitalism.

I know this is hard to hear for Americans, but if you’re making money from being a landlord or flipping houses, you’re a piece of shit.

Bailing out these investors would be like bailing out Bitcoin “common people” investors when the “currency” crashes.

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I’m not a solipsist.