>>513611409 >[referring to Indians in a private correspondence] “Look at the dogs, low, treacherous, murderous, tigerous villains.”
>He even endorsed extreme violence, calling for the “extermination” of Indian people and approving the mutilation of “wretched Hindoo”
Charles Dickens (mid 1800s)
>Indians are a “cowardly and slavish people”
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1850s travelogues)
>Indians are “dark-skinned rapists,” “rapacious savages menacing the virtue of Britain”
Blackwood’s Magazine (1850s)
>expressed disgust at the Ganges, stating, "the memory of that sight will always stay by me, but not by request"
Mark Twain (1897)
>Indian train guards and hotels are inadequate, advised that native servants “should be quietly kept in their proper places,” and depicted Indians as “swarming … like insects”
Murray’s, Cook’s travel guides (late 1800s)
>Physically, the Indian is not a wholesome influence because of his incurable repugnance to sanitation and hygiene…. The moral depravity of the Indian is equally damaging to the African, who in his natural state is at least innocent of the worst vices of the East. The Indian is everywhere the despair of the sanitarian, here he is a menace not only to himself, but especially to the natives of the country. The moral depravity of the Indians is equally damaging…. The Indian is the inciter to crime as well as vice,…. The presence of the Indian in this country is inimical to the moral and physical welfare and the economic advancement of the native.
The Indian Annual Register (a 1919 report on Indians in British Kenya)
>"Indians are biologically inferior"...."they can't think backward or forward by more than 15 minutes"
Albert Einstein (1920s)
