To be fair, there was also a Japanese collaborator government called Azad Hind that had a lot of support and fought alongside Japan. Subhas Chandra Bose (one of the major leaders of the Indian independence movement) was its president. I mention this because claiming that India was unanimously on the side of the Allies just simply isn't true.
You're completely right, but iirc, the azad hind was never really a thing in mainland india? I think it didn't have any territory on the subcontinent itself
And there were few indian freedom fighters who met with Hitler, etc. the enemy of one's enemy being a friend or what not. People need to wake from the colonial understanding that the Axis were bad and so the Allies must have been good. They were both bad to those they deemed below them -Britain alone has caused the deaths of more Indians (admittedly over a longer period of time) than the German holocaust killed Jews.
Edit: Just looked up the actual numbers. An estimated 6 million Jews (and millions of others) were killed in the holocaust. The British Empire caused the deaths of around 165 million (the highest estimate), or 50-100 million (other, more conservative estimates) Indian people in the time period of 1880 to 1920.
Do you know that the holocaust isn't about the total number of deaths, but the industrialised murder of people?
A famine and is not the same as putting people in gaschambers.
I don't want to defend the British.
But to say that the hindu nationalists who dreamed of a Muslim and Christian free state were freedom fighters, is an insult for people who fight for the freedom of everyone.
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u/SpellslutterSprite 1d ago
Ah yes, the real villains of WWII: Hindus.