I don't think it is entirely revisionist. You say that the memorial includes people who died after indendence and after the end of the raj, so it seems to be entirely fitting to say that they died for their nation. With a little stretch of the imagination you could also say that people who died in the WWs did so for their nation. I should think it would have been changed when they inscribed the names of people who died in wars following the end of the raj.
It always amazes how little bitterness Indian people seem to have towards the British. Even though we ruled India for centuries, and did some unspeakable things, Indians always seem very warm towards us. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Subash > Sent: 15 October 2008 05:15 > To: PDML > Subject: PESO: Empire into nation > > hi, > > since we are on the subject of revisionist history, i thought i'll dig > up this old photo from december 07 from one of our flickr group photo > walks... > > we have a war memorial here, built in 1939 in memory of those who died > in WWI and later extended to include WWII and a few others which india > bought with china and pakistan post independence. it is a > huge circular > structure with a tower in the middle, with the circular structure > naming the various theatre of operations and those who died > there. this > is a shot of the base of the central tower: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/pdml.live/PESO#5257224399856328722 > > nobody knows when 'empire' was changed to 'nation' but obviously it > was. what do you guys think? > > the full 'tower' here: > http://picasaweb.google.com/pdml.live/PESO#5257224400320090594 > > both, *ist DS and the da 16-45mm... > > btw, fwiw, india sent, under the british, the largest volunteer > army from any single country to WWII. my own father saw > action under the > british in the then 'far east'. he was a soldier, not an officer, with > the signals. never talked about it much except that he lugged > a marconi > around. lived to the ripe old age of 85. and in his last days/years, a > decade back, he got enormous pleasure out of decoding morse signals in > the short wave bands of the panasonic 12-band transistor radio he > had. :-) if you have been with me this far, thanks for listening. and > looking. > > regards, subash > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
