Being a Born Indian (now British though) I agree with you, not at all a good idea to work with India Chapter or diaspora. Though we Indian tend to forget our past very quickly so you might get lucky in getting some Indians involved in the project if WMUK took it.
Regards, Dhaval
On 8 Feb 2017 12:46, "John Lubbock" john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
There's quite a lot of interest in this subject also because of the BBC series Taboo, which paints the East India Company in a pretty bad light that is quite believable given what is known about them. If anybody wants a somewhat long but illuminating read on them, I'd very much suggest the historian William Dalrymple's piece in the Graun https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders from a couple of years ago.
Personally, I do think that if possible we should look at the possibility of bringing this collection onto Wikimedia projects, but I don't think it would be an appropriate project for trying to work with the Indian Wikimedia chapter or with the Indian diaspora here. I do think we should look at how we could do that in future with subject matter which is less contentious though.
John Lubbock
On 8 February 2017 at 10:22, Lucy Crompton-Reid < lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Ah OK, so it may be politically tricky/insensitive. Thanks Gordo. It's not an aspect of history I'm very familiar with but I suspect the answer to your question was yes, it was! Certainly looks that way from the Wikipedia page...
On 8 February 2017 at 08:57, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 06/02/17 13:36, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote:
Some of you may be aware that 2017 is the UK - India Year of Culture. I guess this resource may relate to that, or it could be a coincidence. Either way, it would be great to see what the potential is in terms of the Wikimedia projects :)
I am not so sure. Wasn't the East India Company in reality a body that acted as if they were country of occupation in India?
Gordon
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