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To: wildcard_redneck
They Indians just basically disgusted the British until they just walked away from them at America's insistence.

your lack of any historical knowledge is incredible.

India followed 3 paths that converged in their getting their independence in 1947

  1. Picking away at the British image of themselves as a "moral power" - by using non-violence.

  2. chipping away at its economic dominance using the salt and other boycotts

  3. The final straw was the 1946 Indian Navy civil disobedience, which the Brits avoided becoming a full blow mutiny by seeing the writing on the wall

Unlike the Brits in the 1700s, the Brits post WWII realized that they were going to be leaving and decided to leave their colonies while keeping a friendly relation -- this was far better for the Brits than what the French did with their colonies

The fact that there wasn't a pitched battle for independence does not mean that the Indians didn't fight for theirs in their own way

20 posted on 08/07/2023 3:09:10 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

The Brits lost WW 2 to America.


21 posted on 08/07/2023 3:33:06 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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