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“Why did the British finally quit India on 15th August 1947? The Imperialist answer is that independence was simply the fulfilment of Britain’s self-appointed mission to assist the Indian people to self-government.” Examine.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Politics of Separatism

The imperialist claim recasts a compelled retreat as a magnanimous gift, but the actual timing and manner of the transfer of power reveal a regime abandoning a position it could no longer hold.

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  • The Imperialist Claim and Its Self-Serving Logic
  • Post-War Economic Exhaustion
  • Erosion of the Pillars of the Raj
  • The Army's Wavering Loyalty — INA Trials and the RIN Mutiny
  • Exhaustion of the Repression–Conciliation Strategy
  • Mass Nationalist Pressure and the Radical Counter-Reading
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