Shekhar Kapur Quotes

The outlook is rather that within a few years India will be given up as Egypt has been given up. The British democracy will not try to retain her by force. Of that we may be sure. The enormous benefits that England has conferred on the country and its swarming millions will count for nothing in retaining their allegiance. The jealousies, rivalries and hatreds of race and creed among the many different peoples, though they may make trouble enough hereafter, have not proved capable of preventing them from combining against their British masters.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

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.

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""

Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.

The Indian independence leaders, Nehru, Gandhi and others, were products of the West.

India is not the name of single country, nor the home of one single nation. It is in fact, the designation of a state created for the first time in history by the British.

I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making it ripe for independence.

The struggles to overturn colonial rule were long and often bitter. But, over time, most were inevitably successful.

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order and, as a by-product, served to unite the country, ripe for independence.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.