Charles Dickens. Who knew he was not just anti-india, anti-hindu and racist (which is common), but straight up wanted to exterminate the whole race as if we were cockroaches.

Here are some memorable Dickens quotes I've gathered:

A thread.

Dickens, in a letter to Emile de la Rue in 1857, about the Indian Mutiny of 1857: “I wish I were Commander in Chief over there [India]! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously

translated into all native dialects, “I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible

avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable atrocities"

Dickens was a proponent of slavery and was also anti-Italian, anti-Irish, anti-Zulu, anti-Indian and anti-American Indian and anti-semite.

Source Grace Moore (2004), Dickens and the Empire. Discourses of class, race, and colonialism in the works of Charles Dickens

Yet Indians eulogize the man! https://www.news18.com/news/books/india-celebrates-200-years-of-charles-dickens-444111.html

"You know faces, when they are not brown; you know common experiences when they are not under turbans; Look at the dogs - low, treacherous, merderous, tigerous villians"

Dickens on India, in a private letter to Emily de la Rue

"I wish I were Commander in Chief of India. The first thing I would do to strike that Oriental race with amazement (not in the least regarding them as if they lived in the Strand, London, or at Camden Town), should be to proclaim to them in their language, that I considered my

Holding that appointment by the leave of God, to mean that I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested; and that I begged them to do me the favor to observe that I was there for that purpose and no other, and was now proceeding,

which all convenient dispatch and merciful swiftness of execution, to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the earth."

Charles Dickens, in a letter to Baronness Burdett-Coutts on 4 October 1857

Dickens also called for the "extermination" of the Indian race and applauded the "mutilation" of the wretched Hindoo who were punished by being "blown from...English guns[s]"

From, "The Speeches of Charles Dickens", K.J. Fielding, Ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960, p. 284

In 1868, in a letter alluding to the uneducated black population in US, Dickens railed against "the melancholy absurdity of giving these people votes", which "at any rate at present, would glare out of every roll of their eyes, chuckle in their mouths, and bump in their heads."

More quotes with citations

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