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It is sometimes said that Britain liberated India. In fact the reverse is the truth. Gandhi and Nehru liberated us. By winning their freedom, they freed us from the ignorance and prejudice that lay behind the myth of Britain's imperial destiny.
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Tony Benn, 1964. Quoted in Gandhi by David Arnold. Pearson Education, 2001.

 

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