Confidence Quote by Shashi Tharoor

“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 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

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

— Prem Kishore

“History of India From Ancient Times to the 20th Century   by William W. Hunter”

— Anonymous

“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

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

— Arthur L. Herman

“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

“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

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully…

— Jules Verne

“I have often wondered whether it is really a good thing to be honest by nature and upbringing; certainly it is not a good…

— Barbara Pym

“In the 1930s the eminent historian Will Durant wrote, “Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and…

— Anonymous