Commonwealth…!?! Are you kidding…?!
India was no more than a brutally exploited colony, and thanks to economic policies ruthlessly enforced by the UK, more than 30 million Indians died of starvation in something called British Colonial Holocaust. But apparently you’ve never heard of, for example, the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed about 3 million people, and Winston Churchill’s role in it.
Commonwealth you say…!?!
I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant. We conquered India as an outlet for the goods of Britain. We conquered India by the sword, and by the sword we shall hold it. I am not such a hypocrite as to say we hold India for the Indians. We went with a yardstick in one hand and a sword in the other, and with the latter we continue to hold them helpless while we force the former down their throats
Sir William Hicks, home minister in the government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1928…