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Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India
With Walter Reid
Part of an ongoing series called Churchill Reassessed
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Winston Churchill was closely connected with India from 1896, when he landed in Bombay with his regiment, until 1947, when independence was finally achieved. No other British statesman had such a long association with the sub-continent, or interfered in its politics so consistently and harmfully.
Churchill strove to sabotage any moves towards independence, crippling the Government of India Act over five years of dogged opposition to its passage in the 1930s. As Prime Minister during the Second World War, Churchill frustrated the freedom struggle from behind the scenes, delaying independence by a decade. To this day he is ‘the’ imperialist villain for Indians, held personally responsible for the Bengal Famine.
In today's show we examine why was he so strangely hostile towards India?
Walter Reid is an historian educated at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of several acclaimed books on British politics and history, including Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical. He raises sheep and cattle in Scotland and grows olives in France.
Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India by Walter Reid
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Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India
With Walter Reid
Part of an ongoing series called Churchill Reassessed
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG3XyxGI5lA1YGwOoNLJ8BnKXHamvInv&si=2kv52BU4M5_Em0G7
Winston Churchill was closely connected with India from 1896, when he landed in Bombay with his regiment, until 1947, when independence was finally achieved. No other British statesman had such a long association with the sub-continent, or interfered in its politics so consistently and harmfully.
Churchill strove to sabotage any moves towards independence, crippling the Government of India Act over five years of dogged opposition to its passage in the 1930s. As Prime Minister during the Second World War, Churchill frustrated the freedom struggle from behind the scenes, delaying independence by a decade. To this day he is ‘the’ imperialist villain for Indians, held personally responsible for the Bengal Famine.
In today's show we examine why was he so strangely hostile towards India?
Walter Reid is an historian educated at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of several acclaimed books on British politics and history, including Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical. He raises sheep and cattle in Scotland and grows olives in France.
Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India by Walter Reid
UK uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9781805260509
UK hurstpublishers.com/book/fighting-retreat
USA amazon.com/Fighting-Retreat-Churchill-Walter-Reid/dp/1805260502
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