Britain Quote by Prem Kishore

“It is not wholly surprising, however, that, when India began to reassert herself, two nations should have replaced the single British Raj; but all…

— Arthur Llewellyn Basham

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed…

— Indira 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

“India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed…

— Meghnad Desai

“And yet here there was tranquility, efficiency, a certain new-world courtesy and civility all their own. There were amazing facilities to study, unimaginable in…

— Anurag Mathur

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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 strength of India, unity in diversity and the weakness of India, diversity in unity.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it lost all…

— Will Durant

“If we are following the same colonial systems and procedures in Free India, are we not actually idealizing the colonial rule?”

— Meenakshi Sundaram V.R

“India’s villages were not self-reliant republics that lived in blissful isolation. They were networked and connected, and it was the destruction of Indian industry…

— Shashi Tharoor

“struck him as a favorable contrast with his own nation that there was no slavery in India;II and that though the population was divided…

— Will Durant