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From: chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert)
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Subject: Re: 'Jewel', British India, and us
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 19:24:24 EST
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In response to:
 Sri Rajeev, SF 1-342, Bell Labs, Summit, NJ 07901. (201)-522-6330.

> ...                     In fact I wondered if the facts were
> grossly distorted, as has often been the case in reports and movies
> about India. I guess I had been conditioned by years of what might
> charitably be called British P.R. (after all they had gotten to
> write the history books and describe themselves as benevolent, if
> firm patriarchal figures)

I'd just like to draw your attention to the fact that "Jewel" is a
British production. You know, those people who "describe themselves
as benevolent."

> ...           and who do we get but the British, with an even more
> inhumane caste system and extreme colour-sensitivity 

That's a pretty large statement. Would you care to back it with some
_comparative_ evidence?

Charles Lambert
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville, IL.