“India will never, within any time that we can foresee, be an efficient country, organised and governed on Western lines. In her development to self-government we have got to be prepared to accept a degree of inefficiency comparable to that in China, Iraq or Egypt . . . [W] e cannot continue to resist reform because it will make the administration less efficient.’ - Wavell to Churchill, July 1944”
Source: Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
“Quite how iniquitous they (the Indian Princes) were will never be known, because Corfield told his officials to extract from the files any evidence of what were called ‘eccentricities’ on the part of the princes. No fewer than four tons of eccentricities were burned, to the annoyance of both Mountbatten, who knew just how eccentric royals could be, and Nehru.”
Source: Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
“Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.”
Source: Rejected for a Purpose: How God Uses Rejection to Help You Find and Fulfill Your Destiny
“Section144 (of the Criminal Procedure Code) slowed, confused, sometimes deflected the independence initiative. But the cat never closed in for the kill.That was never the intention. Besides there were, if you will, too many mice.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“Gandhi did not ask when India would be ready for independence. Gandhi asked when will the British be? Just as he looked for Indians to direct their gaze inward and discover their true selves, so he looked for a transformation, a change of heart, in India's occupiers. They were to recognise that they had no business being in India. They were to recognise that they had never had any business being in India. When that realisation came, they would be allowed to depart with dignity, perhaps even with honour. They would ( Francis Hutchins, India's Revolution) "be permitted to withdraw to compose their memoirs.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“Of India he (Sir John Strachey) had pronounced (and in reissues of "India: Its Administration and Progress" continually repeated) that nothing by that name existed. "This is the first and most essential fact about India that can be learned.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“For it was the Englishmen of that day who felt race, thought race, and used the word often and publicly. It was the Englishman who, encountering an Indian or an Egyptian or a Zulu, and observing that he differed, attributed the difference not to circumstance but to blood, not to community or culture but to race.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“our country doesn't ask for our lives, what it ask for only our honest and love
Happy Independence day!!!
15 Aug.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Subhas Chandra Bose not died in a plane crash at the front, had Bhagat Singh not been hanged by the British, and had Gandhi not been killed by a Hindu extremist moron, Bharat, Pakistan and Bangladesh together would be shining as the brightest beacon of multiculturalism on the face of earth.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Who is it that dares ask, the drowning ones—are they Hindu or Muslim?
Say instead, they are humans, they are the children of my motherland.”
Source: Independence