Seperation From India Quotes

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“be worth the while of Burma to remain part of India if it means a partnership at will on a basis of equality with full freedom for either party to secede whenever it should wish. The main thing is that Burma should have an absolute right to shape her destiny as she likes.66
To his surprise, crowds muttered in disapproval, and the protests only got louder as he headed into the surrounding towns, snaking his way down the coastline by train to the Eurasian colony of Moulmein, then turning north to Prome, Paungde and the old capital of Mandalay. ‘At all places, the Burmese leaders uttered a note of protest against the talk of separation from India’,”
Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia