To be sure, nationalist histories in India, China, Egypt and many other countries long depicted the British ruling class as predatory and callously incompetent, plundering foreign lands for its wealth at home while inflicting immiseration on those it ruled abroad.
They said Mishra was arrested under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), and claimed that he was "evasive in his replies” during questioning.
The real issue is not Modi, but a western fear that India, may, after all, start rising on the world stage. Mishra's views are intended to pander to western fears of their inevitable decline as China, and now India, offer signs of revival.
For Ratan Tata, Modi‘s Chinese characteristics are what make him stand out. “One really has a sense of faith in Mr Modi that if he says it will be done, it will be done,†FT quotes him as saying.