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“I am the last Englishman to rule in India.”

“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

Ifs Men Should War Ends Country Would Be Enemy He Man Revolution India China Esteem Beaten Englishmen

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.”

Social Silence Conversation Standards India Train Stranger Weather Inevitable Indian Embarrassing Gathering Introduction Englishmen Small Talk Fillers

Book:Home to India

Source: Home to India

“Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.”

Children School Mother Environment Fit Connections India British Indian Remarkable Formal Imperialism Englishmen Textbooks Formal Education

Book:From fear set free

Source: From fear set free

“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

“We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.”

Two India Englishmen

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.”

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

“I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc.”

Want War Growing Up Saws Growing Conscious India England Etc Australia Allies Englishmen War Movie

Author:Michael Ondaatje

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