09-12-2006, 07:59 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Instead the Indian Freedom Movement was led by the new Anglicised and educated colonial service-class who emerged from English-language schools after 1857, and who by-and-large used modern Western structures and methods - political parties, strikes and protest marches - to gain their freedom. Had 1857 not happened, modern Indian history might have taken a quite different course.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They were good in grabbing power later because of western education and methods they used to sideline others in India.
They were good in grabbing power later because of western education and methods they used to sideline others in India.