The debate on ‘decolonisation’ is on. Yet in the 21st century, is debating decolonisation that relevant, when nations like India are so confident? A more important task is perhaps learning from each other’s best practices.
The open racial humiliation and systematic exploitation of India by the British Raj were horrific. Yet even at the height of the freedom struggle both Gandhi and Nehru were at pains to emphasise they had no quarrel with the British people, however implacably they opposed imperialism. In fact, Gandhi urged the English to stay on in independent India, not as colonial masters but as equals. Today, 75 years on, people-to-people contacts between India and Britain are at an all-time high.
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