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Date: 3 March,2016

Post No. 2594

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Harold Laski (British political theorist and economist) has this story to tell:-

I discussed recently with a Hindu I knew – a man of great culture- the question of Indian Independence.

“If England were to withdraw from India,” I said, “wouldn’t the country relapse into a state of anarchy – much like what it was in the 18^th century when Clive and Hastings laid the foundation of the British Raj?

My friend assented sadly, “Yes, I suppose you are right.”

“And that would be followed by a tyranny, or several tyrannies, would it not?”

“Yes, probably”.

And the pendulum would swing back to the anarchy again?”

“Yes”, he said, “yes, I am afraid it would!”, “but it will be our tyranny and our anarchy!’

Harold Laski

–From the Thesaurus of Anecdotes (published before Indian Independence)