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Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)

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samdung ◴[17 Nov 24 11:01 UTC] No.42163414[source]▶
The British committed more atrocities (going by body count) in the 20 odd years of India's "peaceful freedom movement" headed by MKG.

1919 - Jallianwala Bagh massacre (over 1500 shot dead in a few minutes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

1943 - Bengal famine of 1943 (over 3 million dead). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

1947 - Partition of India (2 million deaths) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

Indian school text books just gloss over British brutality in India.

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1. intended ◴[17 Nov 24 13:30 UTC] No.42164106[source]▶
My suspicion is that many people who didn’t read their subjects, or just memorized the answers, have no recollection of what they studied. As a result they bring up these accusations.

All of this was covered in our text books. From Jallianwala to the partition.