Sublime

‘In the fort I saw the finest set of buildings in the world - but no one was caring for them. They were all falling apart. My ancestors brought such sophisticated culture to India — but they have just let it disintegrate. In time it will just disappear and no one will ever know.’

Anna Monkland’s Calcutta novel Life in India,

In March 1913, a high court of South Africa declared invalid the marriage of two Hindus—and, by extension, invalidated the marriages of Ganda and Amba Kapitan and every other Hindu and Muslim couple in South Africa. A stroke of the judicial pen rendered illegitimate any marriage conducted by rites of "a religion that recognizes polygamy,"

This new Imperial approach was one that Lord Wellesley was determined not only to make his own, but to embody. His Imperial policies would effectively bring into being the main superstructure of the Raj as it survived up to 1947; he also brought with him the arrogant and disdainful British racial attitudes that buttressed and sustained it.