British Quote by Linda Colley

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The British succeeded. India deindustrialized, it ruralized. As the industrial revolution spread in England, India was turning into a poor, ruralized and agrarian country.…

— Noam Chomsky

“When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.”

— Prem Kishore

India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and…

— Indira Gandhi

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is…

— Agnes Smedley

The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples…

— Stanley Wolpert

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The country was passing through turbulent times. British Raj was on its last legs. The World War had sucked the juice out of the…

— Manjit Sachdeva

“India all too easily forgets its own history under British rule, and the declaration of its freedom fighters that the oppressor does not have…

— Angana P. Chatterji

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

— Shekhar Kapur

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country,…

— Arundhati Roy