Meghnad Desai Quotes
India Had A Very Long Independence Movement. It Started In 1886, [with] The First Generation Of Western-educated Indians. They Were All Liberals. They Followed The Liberal Party In Britain, And They Were Very Proud Of Their Knowledge Of Parliamentary Systems, Parliamentary Manners. They Were Big Debaters. They [had], As It Were, A Long Apprenticeship In Training For Being In Power. Even When Gandhi Made It A Mass Movement, The Idea Of Elective Representatives, Elected Working Committees, Elected Leadership, All That Stayed Because Basically Indians Wanted To Impress The British That They Were Going To Be As Good As The British Were At Running A Parliamentary Democracy. And That Helped Quite A Lot.
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