After administering the first social beating to these students who had just left the campus and entered society, Alan Wilson simply continued, "Ever since we, Britain, entered South Asia, Hyderabad has always acted as an ally of our Britain, and even when Hyderabad was known as the Nizam, it helped us to defeat the Maratha Empire.In all three Maratha wars, Hyderabad sent troops to help the expeditionary forces win decisive victories, and the same was true in the four Mysore wars, even in the Indian Mutiny of 1857, after which our relations with Hyderabad have been cordial up to the present day."
After the Great Indian Rebellion, British India is not in the goal of cannibalization and annexation, it can be said that the Indian princes at that time only added to the Great Indian Rebellion somehow achieved the goal, of course, the biggest beneficiary is always the British allies appeared Hyderabad Tuktuk, in the Maratha and Mysore as Hyderabad's powerful native forces were eliminated after Hyderabad, Hyderabad has become the most powerful of the Indian princes left one.
And before that, the operation of the East India Company, is to take the excuse to find the trouble of these native states, on the pretext that the other side did not have heirs to the confiscation of the other side of the land, or to find some other excuse, has been annexed to the land of these native states direct administration.
This tactic is very similar to the Ming and Qing dynasties of land reorganization, are trying to find ways to make these land state land, under the management of the East India Company, and in India after the Great Rebellion, reorganization of land reorganization, even if it is stopped, the formation of more than five hundred South Asia now the pattern of the land state.
Before leaving, just entered the British civil service, is still a novice Alan Wilson, more than his own novice assistants, carried out some profound ideological education, Hyderabad Commissioner in a sense is considered a consultant, before Mir Osman Ali Khan, is not qualified to pretend to be a heavenly dragon man.
If in ordinary times the Hyderabad Commissioner would have been almost indistinguishable from a dispatch, and could easily have been ignored in the presence of the Hyderabad monarch, and London would not have been able to do anything to the monarch of what is now the most powerful Turkish state in British India because of the displeasure of ignoring a Commissioner, but now it was different, or at least Alan Wilson thought it was different.
It was true that the British were superior in British India, but class and ethnic boundaries were not entirely unbreakable when it came to whom they were directed against.
It was now 1945, and Alan Wilson had no bag of tricks to help British India continue to exist, not that he hadn't thought about it, but it was all in the realm of dreams.
At this sensitive time, the British withdrawal from South Asia was a big deal, and there was still a lot he thought he could do, both in terms of private interests and in terms of playing a positive role on a larger scale.
Even his own cheap father, because of a small change in history, became the man who ran the Bengal famine with a straight face, and at this level, where the situation of the Indians was snowballing, it was nothing to Allen Wilson to try a little harder.
It was a few days before he went to Hyderabad to take up his post, and as the new Commissioner of Hyderabad, Alan Wilson, instead of paying his respects to the great people of British India, as he had said he would, turned his head and plotted a course.
"This city on the Ganges is densely populated and has some industrial facilities?"
Sir Barron was instantly frozen by Alan Wilson's question; how could this young man, not in a hurry to go to Hyderabad to take up his post, ask such a clueless question?
"The vicinity of Central and United Provinces are the most densely populated places in South Asia," Sir Barron replied in disbelief, "Alan, what are you asking for, Hyderabad is in South India."
"Alan Wilson laughed softly and replied, "Actually, it was just selfishness on his part, that is, he wanted to see the real landscape of the Ganges River, whether it was like it was in recent days, which was not pleasing to the eye, and whether there were any kinds of pollutants in it, as well as corpses.
This is also for the sake of the British Empire, although in the process of British India's independence, he did not know the public opinion of the British mainland, but in accordance with common sense, on the surface is still the world's three great Britain, to let India's independence is certainly a public opinion backlash.
If to eliminate this kind of public opinion backlash, Alan has a not very on stage trick, he remembered the later generations of the famous Ganges River floating corpse, this series of photographs is not only famous in China, but in the world widely circulated.
If you look at it from the point of view of cultural attack, the photo series of the floating corpse in the Ganges River has almost trampled on the dignity of the entire Indian people, and combined with the important position of the Ganges River in the Hindu religion, it has almost brought a huge negative impact on the country of India.
Along with the rape in India that festered a few years later and the toilet issue, the whole of India was nailed to the pillar of shame.
This way, after British India lost control, Alan Wilson could use the information gathered to make public opinion on British soil a little more palatable and win the public opinion war.
As long as it is shown that it is not that Britain is not powerful, but that India is rotten to the core, and that Britain really can't continue to waste its time in that cesspool, it will give the British natives a psychological comfort, and it will not be difficult to accept the independence of India on the moral level.
Unfortunately, by the time Alan Wilson set off, they had not yet found the scene they wanted in the upper reaches of the Ganges, well, there are still two years, Alan is not particularly anxious.
Leave New Delhi on the train Allen Wilson, is considered the official opening of their civil service career, has not yet arrived in Hyderabad, has been the local monarch Mir Osman Ali Khan information in mind.
Ali Khan's body is small, shriveled, no matter how to look like a rich man, his "thrift and frugality" is also known far and wide.He only ever wore a non-smoking hat in his life, and usually wore tattered baggy pants.
His bedroom could hardly be called a bedroom; it was full of wastepaper baskets with a straw mat in the middle. Yet this person, who is so stingy to himself, is the richest man in the world.
There are some people who are rich as hell and show that they do not love wealth much.Alan Wilson is not in the connotation of those who do not love money can like other things, from Ali Khan's later experience, he knew the monarch of Hyderabad, in fact, understand that all the wealth is based on the right to find ways to make Hyderabad in the independent status.
It was only in the end that he was no match for Nehru, the leader of the Congress Party, and his attempts at independence were finally crushed. In the end, Mir Osman Ali Khan was a pacifist, and if his home state had been exchanged for Kashmir, the outcome would have been much better.
Before reaching Hyderabad, and before leaving North India, Alan Wilson and his party had to stop for a day at a railway station, and after inquiring they learned that it was the local pacifists and Hindus who were engaged in armed struggle.
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