The Inheritance of Loss Lesson Plan

What court case does Bose mount that the judge refuses to support? How do people respond to the lawsuit? How does the case perpetuate the cycle of poverty many find themselves in?

Bose is one of the ICS men who mount a court case to win a pension equal to the white man's. The judge refuses to participate, surprised his friend is still so naivete. They lose the case, as does his son years later when he mounts a similar case against Shell Oil. In both England and India, people laugh about the trial. Fellow Indians think that Bose fancies himself as better than them as opposed to seeing themselves as all oppressed. It is implied that the colonialist narrative is...