[wildcard_redneck]

"The only reason Chinese people aren’t the rudest people on Earth, is that Indian people exist."

Yup. My last name is English and when Indians piss me off I like to casually bring the topic of British's Empire up. I start out by mentioning how America was lucky enough to kick the British out even though I am part British and then I ask what Indian did to get rid of them. They Indians just basically disgusted the British until they just walked away from them at America's insistence.

[nwrep]

Actually Britain invested more into their Indian colonial empire than any other European colonizers ever did. India benefited immensely from British rule.

[Cronos]

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