It’s true. If Britain had been a real empire, Ghandi would have been hanged, drawn, and quartered, and that would be that.
‘It’s true. If Britain had been a real empire, Ghandi would have been hanged, drawn, and quartered, and that would be that.’
No, you’re confusing a constitutionally democratic monarchical empire with a totalitarian dictatorship. Everything we did in Empire had to be passed by parliament. We couldn’t just go killing opposition leaders because they disagreed with us. That’s the job of the CIA in central America! :)