New Delhi: Members of royal families across India have condemned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for insulting their ancestors in his recently published editorial and termed the accusations “baseless” and “unacceptable”. They also said Gandhi’s “selective amnesia” made him forget the privileges he enjoyed due to his lineage. In an editorial published in Indian Express, the […]

Rahul Gandhi, in an op-ed, said the East India Company choked India by partnering with, bribing, and threatening pliant maharajas and nawabs. The remark was condemned by several members of erstwhile royal families.

In an opinion piece published in a newspaper, Mr. Gandhi had written that ‘East India Company choked India by partnering with, bribing, and threatening our more pliant maharajas and nawabs. We didn’t lose our freedom to another nation; we lost it to a monopolistic corporation that ran a coercive apparatus’