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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of the debate over Indian independence. Various viewpoints are presented based on the arguments of British Parliament members at the time. Bibliography lists 0 sources.
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and the Conservative and Liberal Parties, who favored a temporary wait, had points to make regarding the benefits and harm incurred by the period of British colonial rule in India.
On one side of the debate, Clement Davies, argued that British rule in India had yielded a great number of national benefits, namely that British rule had exposed India to
a system of impartial law and order for the first time in history, and that the establish of a British-based social infrastructure had raised the standard of living in the
country to the extent that there were then some 400 million people living in India, rather than the 100 million that lived there when the occupation began. On the other
side of the debate, however, Parliamentary member Reginald Sorensen argued that Indians had actually had a civilized society since long before British rule had begun. He pointed to the fact
that most modern Indians could make cohesive points about British rule bringing new forms of hardship to the nation; one key example of this is the fact that a great
many British industries profited extensively from exploited Indian labor. Such debates were necessary in order to develop a cohesive view of whether or not continued occupation of India was well-advised.
2. The critics of British rule in India supported immediate independence. What was their line of argument? Many members of Parliament, mostly those in the dominant Labour Party,
argued that continued British rule in India was ill-advised, and advocated an immediate withdrawal from the country, allowing India to find its own way towards democratic self-rule. Some of the
Conservative members of Parliament who supported withdrawal, such as Clement Davies, argued that the entire reason for the British occupation of India in the first place was to spread ideals
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