holy colonialism batman

Reading Dickens' short story The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, published in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny and allegorically commenting on the same, and feeling VERY vindicated in my ongoing dislike of the man. It's like How To Be Racist 101: every horrible trope you can think of rolled into one narrative bundle. I suspected, after Bleak House, that I wasn't going to much like his take on indigenous peoples - after all, they take charitable resources away from deserving little Christian white poor children!!! But this is actually worse than I'd expected.