Read my point on re-assessment

Submitted by Devasahayam (United States), Jun 10, 2008 at 11:48

My comment was that the British contributed more in positive sense to India in less than 200 years than the Muslims did in over 700--and I am no Anglophile! I actually consider W.L. MacKenzie (grandfather of Canadian PM W.L.M. King) to be a hero for rebelling against British rule in Canada.

Yes, we know about Bose's contacts with Hitler and Tojo; to be frank, many Indians were probably glad that Bose wound up joining them in hell (presumed, but not verified, dead in Taipei crash)--as had he "succeeded", then India would be under the rule of the Nazis (and not its own equivalent, which Pakistan managed to settle on).

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