Posted by Peter Ceresole on May 12, 2012 at 06:39:20 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Avoid expressing personal views, please Re: S&A 1974 Film - a retrospective view posted by Alan Hakim on May 12, 2012 at 04:32:17:
Having lived and worked in India and Ceylon about one generation after independence, I found their general view of the British Empire was positive
Oh certainly. I remember negotiating with a charming person in India, for permissions to do something simple and perfectly legal, and when we got caught up in some tortuous meander of the system, him saying apologetically 'I'm afraid that when the British introduced civil administration to India, you were definitely playing to our weakness...'