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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. kaycey2022 ◴[18 Nov 24 11:33 UTC] No.42171523[source]▶
They don’t gloss over these. Indians just overlook them because it would clash against their aspirations to migrate to the UK. Also the partition related deaths cannot be blamed on the British. This episode happened because of the inability of the Hindu and Muslim communities to set aside their prejudices. The British were leaving India and cannot be blamed for the partition riots. They do bear responsibility for the other 2 and many other atrocities though.