The Dark Side of Winston Churchill’s Legacy No One Should Forget [Liberal Revisionism]

Washington Post ^ | February 03, 2015 | Ishaan Tharoor

[Smokin' Joe]

For those who have not read that book (The River War), but would like to, it is available for free at Gutenberg.org

[Cincinatus]

When Churchill did apply his attention to the subcontinent, it had other dire effects. As the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra explains in the New Yorker, Churchill was one of a coterie of imperial rulers who worked to create sectarian fissures within India's independence movement between Indian Hindus and Muslims, which led to the brutal partition of India when the former colony finally did win its freedom in 1947. Millions died or were displaced in an orgy of bloodshed that still echoes in the region's tense politics to this day.

I love this -- now Churchill is the one responsible for the sectarian strife that is now and always has been within the Indian populace. Churchill opposed independence precisely because he thought the departure of the Raj would lead to widespread death and destruction.

Liberals writing history -- hilarious!

[Elsie]

The allure of his name is so strong ...

Says Ishaan Tharoor