Derogatory Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

— Arundhati Roy

“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread…

— Shashi Tharoor

“For years, since the eighteenth century, and in each century since, we have said at home, in England, in Whitehall, that the day would…

— Paul Scott

The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus…

— Susanna Moodie

“The tragedy of India is that we frequently have no respect for Indians, for Indian efforts and for Indian successes.”

— Verghese Kurien

“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

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

— Benjamin Franklin

English is an Indian language. It reaches a wider audience across the country.

— Shobana

People pass a lot of judgment about each other in India, and that is a tendency I don't like.

— Rashami Desai

“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of…

— Will Durant

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

— Mahatma Gandhi