QuoteQuest“The pre-British period was not a period of slavery. We had some sort of swaraj under Mogul rule. In Akbar’s time the birth of a Pratap was possible, and in Aurangzeb’s time a Sivaji could flourish. Has 150 years of British rule produced any Pratap and Sivaji?”
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- Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi
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Young India, April 13, 1921, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol 19, p. 477. Quoted in "Gandhi predicted communal discord would poison education, distort history", The Leaflet , September 5, 2021.
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Gandhi, Mahatma. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
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