British rule Quote by Shashi Tharoor

“As I was typing this last sentence, somewhat hastily, my computer’s spellcheck offered ‘Brutish’ as an acceptable substitute for ‘British’ rule in India!”

— Shashi Tharoor

The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

— Lala Lajpat Rai

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Sir Rabindranath Tagore returned his knighthood to the British in protest against ‘the helplessness of our position as British subjects in India’. Tagore’s early…

— Shashi Tharoor

“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

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

— Juvenal

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

— Djuna Barnes

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

— Thomas Hobbes

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee

“Atlantic island under British rule that isn't quite the tropical paradise you'd expect”

— Anonymous

The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might…

— Gerald Horne

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

— Thein Sein