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Churchill speak of India
by Kayalvizhi Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:50 pm
"Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles." - Churchill
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Re: Churchill speak of India
by charvaka Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:51 pm
Churchill was an idiot when it came to India. The reason was his prejudice.
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Re: Churchill speak of India
by charvaka Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:02 pm
Some more stupid things Churchill said about India...
Speaking to an audience at the City of London in December 1930, he claimed that if the British left the subcontinent, then 'an army of white janissaries, officered if necessary from Germany, will be hired to secure the armed ascendancy of the Hindu.' Three months later, speaking at the Albert Hall on 'Our Duty to India' -- with his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough presiding -- Churchill argued that 'to abandon India to the rule of the Brahmins would be an act of cruel and wicked negligence.' If the British left, he predicted, then the entire gamut of public services created by them -- the judicial, medical, railway and public works departments -- would perish, and 'India will fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privation of the Middle Ages.'
Source: India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha, page xv
He was just plain wrong.
Speaking to an audience at the City of London in December 1930, he claimed that if the British left the subcontinent, then 'an army of white janissaries, officered if necessary from Germany, will be hired to secure the armed ascendancy of the Hindu.' Three months later, speaking at the Albert Hall on 'Our Duty to India' -- with his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough presiding -- Churchill argued that 'to abandon India to the rule of the Brahmins would be an act of cruel and wicked negligence.' If the British left, he predicted, then the entire gamut of public services created by them -- the judicial, medical, railway and public works departments -- would perish, and 'India will fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privation of the Middle Ages.'
Source: India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha, page xv
He was just plain wrong.
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Re: Churchill speak of India
by charvaka Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:02 pm
No, he was just plain wrong.Kayalvizhi wrote:Is he not propetic?
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Re: Churchill speak of India
by Kris Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:39 pm
Kayalvizhi wrote:"Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles." - Churchill
>>>What? No relevant gems from that other contemporary expert Macaulay?
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