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The Devil’s Advocate: Divide and ‘Cool’ in Leicester?
FirstpostDays after the longest-serving monarch of an empire that oversaw the plunder and loot of several countries, a disconcerting reminder of the many wounds the British Empire left India with, surfaced. The knee-jerk reaction to this won’t be the re-evaluation of the British Empire’s historical records of socially poisoning far-off civilisations. The Partition was rushed, necessitated by the British govt’s rush to escape a land they had robbed to within an inch of its resources but in Leicester, I suppose things will be trickier. You can’t possibly divide the neighbourhood into Hindi and Muslim ghettos, although if you wish to then nobody perhaps holds deeper expertise in the exercise than the British. The British government can and probably will feel aggrieved that they have been handed a problem they didn’t create but then welcome to our lives, three centuries ago.
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