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The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India. -- Lala Lajpat Rai
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. -- Andrew Eldritch
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. -- Gerry Adams
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. -- Nandan Nilekani
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries. -- Pankaj Mishra
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. -- Robert Menzies
The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India. -- Beeban Kidron
We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement. -- Vince Cable
Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters. -- Pankaj Mishra
Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that. -- Theresa May
Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship. -- Cherie Blair
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? -- Neel Mukherjee
Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain. -- Philip Hammond
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it. -- Martin Jacques
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible. -- Cecil Rhodes
India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners. -- Mahatma Gandhi
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. -- William Randolph Hearst
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. -- Thein Sein
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action. -- Syama Prasad Mukherjee
More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution. -- Adolf Hitler

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