Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: Some eons ago, there was a discussion on this forum re Indian Independence etc.
At that time, my personal belief was that the Brits gave independence to India not because of Gandhi or Nehru, but because they could no longer trust the loyalty of the British Indian Army. The following program (part 1), which I just finished watching, reinforces that belief. http://www.sbs.com.au/documentary/program/868/ ......................................................................................................................................... Gabriel, 1) I could not open the above link. 2) The history books in Tanzania state that the first people who questioned the British presence in Tanganyika were the members of the King's African Riffles. After they returned from the campaigns in Burma and the far east, they questioned why the British were in Tanganyika. These service and ex-servicemen were the first to form political organisations (later banned). The Kings African Riffles had battalions in every colony starting from Somalia in the north to Nyasaland in the south. What started as an European war for dominance, ended up with all the European powers losing all their colonies. On a somewhat related note, the Mau Mau veterans in Kenya have just this week won the right to sue the British govt for the atrocities committed by the colonialist in Kenya. The Mau Mau detainees at the time, or murderers as they were then labeled by the British, included the grand-father of Barack Obama. Mervyn2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
