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.
Easy enough to resort to name-calling when you have no facts to back your bile. India is a third-world backwater joke and always will be, whether you want to pretend it's a "democracy" or not. Besides the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people killed as a direct result, many of India's (and Pakistan's)present problems can be traced to the incompetent manner in which independence came about. If you want to stick your heads up your arses and ignore that, and celebrate such idiocy, go right ahead. Seems to be a natural position for you.