Gladstone Scion to Apologise for Slavery: Can Indian Upper Castes Too Look Within?

That Western capitalism had its first roots in the expropriation of slave labour is of course by now an established fact of history. Mr Gladstone’s conscientious lead is admirable, one that many others could emulate – even in the former colonies. Badri Raina writes.

https://thewire.in/rights/gladstone-scion-apologise-slavery-indian-upper-castes-look-within

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