“But in more complex situations, it cannot and, more to the point, does not work as well.” “Gandhiism is viable at its simplest and most profound in the service of a transcendental principle like independence from foreign rule,” Tharoor writes. He is even miffed at one of his idols, Mahatma Gandhi. He is angry at historian Niall Ferguson for suggesting that the British occupation benefitted India. He is angry at Rudyard Kipling for being a romantic imperialist and inventing “the white man’s burden. He is angry at Winston Churchill for being an obdurate imperialist. He is bitter at the British as he outlines their more than two centuries of exploiting Indian resources and people, then departing hastily in 1947 to permit a partition during which hundreds of thousands died.
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