Although it puts on the facade of a critical documentary on the EIC, this is clearly a Birtish centric documentray. The whole thing is viewed through a British lens.
This is ample clear, when the episode ends with claims like the English language has become a legacy and a boon in the globalized world.(This is said by an Indian, but it's definitely not a majority opinion). It's like forcing a man to live on a boat with no means of sustenance and then giving him a fishing rod as a boon. The British may have left a lot of their own legacies to survive and persist in India, but they have destroyed many more that we may have claimed as our own - they just needed time to evolve by themselves.
The episodes give a vivid account of the tragedies on the British, but why they happened and the things that the British government in India did that may have caused them are glossed over. Maybe this is because the written accounts from the perspective of the British were more articulate, but I had hoped for a more balanced approach.
It's not a bad commentary, but it doesn't do justice to the Indian people.
This is ample clear, when the episode ends with claims like the English language has become a legacy and a boon in the globalized world.(This is said by an Indian, but it's definitely not a majority opinion). It's like forcing a man to live on a boat with no means of sustenance and then giving him a fishing rod as a boon. The British may have left a lot of their own legacies to survive and persist in India, but they have destroyed many more that we may have claimed as our own - they just needed time to evolve by themselves.
The episodes give a vivid account of the tragedies on the British, but why they happened and the things that the British government in India did that may have caused them are glossed over. Maybe this is because the written accounts from the perspective of the British were more articulate, but I had hoped for a more balanced approach.
It's not a bad commentary, but it doesn't do justice to the Indian people.