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“Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.”

Has Beens Language Given Numbers Attention Opinion Media India International Indian Excellent Sheer Justified English Language Diaspora

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.”

May Language Mass India English Language Englishmen

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.”

Thinking Whole Language Mistake Terrible India Educated Minorities English Language Englishmen English Speaking

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.”

Ifs Should Language Land India Tyranny Welcome Indian Serving Dedicated English Language Englishmen Resisting

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.”

Earth Language Race India England Western Partners Crush Heels Exploitation English Language Englishmen Deliverance

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.”

Ideas Language Liberty India Developing Superstitions English Language Englishmen Accuracy Imbibing

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.”

Ifs Would Be Language Environment Taste India Scales Indian English Language Englishmen Sad Day

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.”

Years Lasts Language Christianity Hundred India British Fifty English Language Englishmen British Rule

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.”

Language India British English Language Englishmen Manly British Rule

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?”

War Language Democracy Willing India Britain Allies English Language Defence Englishmen Unwilling Great Britain Prosecution True Democracy

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.”

Fighting Language India Method Institutions British English Language Englishmen

Book:Gandhigrams

Source: Gandhigrams

“I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.”

Believe Language I Believe Battle Offers Capacity India I Believe In Rulers English Language Englishmen

Book:Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)

Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)

“The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.”

Knows Language Millions India British Symbols Village Revenue English Language Policemen Englishmen Collectors British Rule

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

“It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.”

Language India Method Democratic Britain English Language Englishmen

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.”

Ifs Want Mean Language My Own India Extinction English Language Englishmen Disappearance

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.”

Moments Language Mankind Dignity Hatred India English Language Englishmen Single Mom Derogatory

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?”

Ifs Thinking Fall Language India England France Germany Ruined English Language Englishmen Deliverance

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

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