Colonial administrators acknowledged that progress crushed the people beneath it

Evidence

The imperialists themselves were quite aware of the implications of their concept of progress. Said the very representative author from the Civil Services in India who wrote under the pseudonym A. Carthill: “One must always feel sorry for those persons who are crushed by the triumphal car of progress” (op. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2218

Categorization

• CANDY: A colonial official openly admitting that ‘progress’ crushes people is a memorable corrective to sanitized imperial narratives.