A Bengali woman carrying a British merchant on her back…
📸 This photo was taken in 1903, at the height of British colonialism in the Indian subcontinent.
This isn’t just a picture — it’s a slap in the face to anyone who still romanticizes “Western civilization.” This is the reality of colonialism, the part they try to soften or hide in history books.
It was exploitation, humiliation, and the crushing of human dignity — all justified by racist ideas of who was “worthy.”
And then they ask you about terrorism… while the history of Western colonialism is full of massacres, starvation, plunder, and violence — yet they reduce “terrorism” to oppressed peoples fighting for their dignity.
The effects of British colonialism in India — the killing, the engineered famines, the theft of wealth, the contempt for human life — are still visible today. Millions died, generations were displaced, and entire societies were stripped of their resources under the banner of a false “enlightenment.”