Andrew Roberts: The British in India did build huge waterways and arguing otherwise is just bad history

Andrew Roberts: The British in India did build huge waterways and arguing otherwise is just bad history

Lord Roberts is the author of ‘Churchill: Walking with Destiny’ In his attack on Sir Niall Ferguson, Lord Biggar and me here on Conservative Home  – the distinguished biochemist Terence Kealey makes the remarkable claim that the British Empire in India ‘built too few waterways because they would not be of importance to British businesspeople: they would be of importance only to ordinary Indians, in whom the British were insufficiently invested. …