India-Canada row: How ties hit rock bottom between the two countries

Para el exhausto diplomático no había llegado todavía la hora del descanso. Luego de los festejos, el Departamento de Estado le ordenó colaborar estrechamente con la CIA, que, lograda la erradicación de Árbenz, debía borrar todos los trazos de la participación de los Estados Unidos en la Operación PBSuccess. Era indispensable que no quedara rastro

As far as the Indian participants were concerned, the Uprising was overwhelmingly expressed as a war of religion, and looked upon as a defensive action against the rapid inroads missionaries and Christianity were making in India, as well as a more generalised fight for freedom from foreign domination.

Britain and Holland, as late arrivals to Indian Ocean trade, would have to fight wars with Portugal and Spain to win their place in global trade. The British East India Company not only vanquished its rivals, but in time vanquished India as well.

Antony Anghie goes still further to argue that sovereignty was developed in the confrontation with Indians in Spanish America.