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“He spoke to me for half an hour, and I am still not sure what he meant to tell me. Every sentence he spoke could be interpreted in at least two different ways. I would be happier were I convinced that he knew what he was saying himself, but I cannot even be sure of that.’ (Wavell, talking about Gandhi)”
― Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
― Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
“Linlithgow identified the obstacles to progress as Indian political stupidity and British political dishonesty, but he was himself a master of the ability to say something which meant very little, and to decorate it with qualifications like ‘in the light of the then circumstances’, and ‘subject to such modifications as may seem desirable’.”
― Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
― Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
“India will never, within any time that we can foresee, be an efficient country, organised and governed on Western lines. In her development to self-government we have got to be prepared to accept a degree of inefficiency comparable to that in China, Iraq or Egypt . . . [W] e cannot continue to resist reform because it will make the administration less efficient.’ - Wavell to Churchill, July 1944”
― Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
― Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
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