[Luddite Patent Counsel]

This was one of the worst debacles in British history. Read "Freedom at Midnight" for a well-documented history of this tragedy.

[Clemenza]

Ah, another lapdog of ol' blighty defending British Imperialism.

India has one of the fastest growing economies in the world and may even surpass ol' blighty within my lifetime. F--k the Tories and their sadness of the "loss of the Raj."

[Gengis Khan]

This was one of the worst debacles in British history. Read "Freedom at Midnight" for a well-documented history of this tragedy.

"Freedom at Midnight" is pure crap. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (French-frog) are two liberal pukes and lickspittles of the Raj.......... And there are quite a few of them on FR as well.

This was one of the worst debacles in British history.

Yeah a mistake that was corrected in 1947.

And now the ol' Blighty Raj and their apologists can relegate themselves to the sewers of history. The so-called "Great Britain"(the Poms call it to pamper their vanity) is just a "has-been-shadow-of-a-has-been-power", whose presence or absence from the world scene today does not make any difference. Pommies were never more irrelevant to the world politics then today. The ol' Blighty is just a deadwood still occupying the UN seat. It is high time they hand it over to G4 with dignity.

[Publius6961]

This was one of the worst debacles in British history. Read "Freedom at Midnight" for a well-documented history of this tragedy.

Can you give us a hint?

Worse than giving almost all of "palestine" to the muslims when it was supposed to be 50-50?

[razoroccam]

You are correct about this being the worst debacle - at least 2 million Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims died. The blame, and there is plenty to go around, goes to the British who did not foresee the communal forces being unleashed, to Nehru who put his ambition above his country, and to Gandhi who, lost in a self-delusional grandness and naivete, subjected India to such a brutal outcome. If Gandhi was truly a Mahatma, he would have the guts to tell the British and Nehru to keep India in its empire rather than divide it. But then, he wasn't truly a Mahatma and his threats of "over my dead body" proved more hot air than reality