Mohandas Gandhi and fellow activist, Manibehn Patel, on the day of his departure for England in 1931.
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TopFotoIn 1900 India was central to the British Empire for strategic and economic reasons. India was a market for British manufactures, an important source of gold and one of Britain's biggest debtors. India moved through a series of political reforms to full independence in 1947.
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Further reading
- Brown, J.M., India In Brown, J.M. and Louis, W.R., The Oxford History of the British Empire Vol. 4 The Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
- Brown, J.M., Modern India: the Origins of an Asian Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 1994)
- Moore, R.J., Escape from Empire: the Attlee Government and the Indian Problem (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983)
