Name: Anonymous 2008-05-19 0:48
Spoiler: Gandhi hated social liberals and would have simply been killed if Britain was really a despotism. If anything British imperialism and colonialism has been a beneficial force in Indian by introducing technology, offerring protection from malicious colonial powers like Belgium and unifying most of the country. As much as Indians whine about Kashmir and Pakistan the British actually usherred in an era of peace and unity even the Mughals failed to achieve. After colonialism India enterred 25 years of economic stagnation cause by socialist economic policies in which the wage of the average worker only rose by an average of 1%. Gandhi's fanaticism had no supernatural or enlightened properties, it in fact contributed to the country's poverty.