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Do you dislike him for allying with Imperial Japan considering the brutality they inflicted.

Basically people who were a part of the oppressed group by the Allied powers and yet decided to join the even more evil Axis powers to gain independence.

I know ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ and all that, but you don’t see African Americans or Native Americans joining the Axis, much less seeing them as heroes.

It’s a book summarising thousands of year of Indian history in 260 pages.

It’s a good book. It delves into the harms of British colonialism and points out that railways were built to benefit colonialism only.

At the same time it notes that innocent European civilians were attacked at times like during the Indian Rebellion.

It notes that the Japanese abused Indians. (In a way Indians are the forgotten victims of Imperial Japan)

Don’t get me wrong, English nationalists are wrong in that they glorify him as the best human being ever, but Indian Nationalists are almost as bad.

Yes, Churchill did exacerbate the Bengal Famine, but there were multiple causes for that, including freaking WW2. It’s completely different from making genocide an industrial state policy.

Yes, he was racist, but that does not make him as bad as Hitler since so many others were racist during his time.

Churchill did become concerned about the famine in 1944, and encourage the government of Bengal to send relief, though by then it was too late.

And there is evidence to show his views on Indians improved. He said that the idea of Indians being inferior to whites needs to go. He was horrified by Ghandi’s assassination and reached an understanding with Nehru.

And he literally condemned Armritsar, the other major atrocity committed against Indians by the British. Yet everyone seems to forget this.

Churchill was not gleefully rubbing his hands and plotting the deaths of millions of Indians. No way is he equivalent to Hitler.

Churchill was an inconsistent man.

You don’t see people saying FDR was a Hitler to Japanese Americans, though he deserves to be condemned for the internment camps.

You don’t see the Irish compare Trevelyan, Lord Russell and Queen Victoria to Hitler.

Churchill was a racist and classist prick who deserves to be condemned for his statements and the famine, but saying he is the equivalent to Hitler is ludicrous.

Many people in India view Churchill as a genocidal monster that was Hitler to Indians.

I despise Churchill, but I think that’s inaccurate. You don’t have the Irish comparing the British leaders during the Irish famine to Hitler.

Would you think that De Gaulle was a Hitler to Algerians

I’ve been watching Man in the High Castle ( a show where the Axis won WW2) and India in the show is controlled by the Japanese.

I know the British were bad to India but the Japanese… oh boy.

I mean, when most of SEA Asia agrees that the few years under the Japanese were worse than centuries under European colonisers it says a lot.