` :::: And in this case, just plain luck! With all due respect, I know what I am talking about. I have always been an avid reader of history books. I have read sufficient books on Indian history and the Indian independence struggle, and do not harbour the delusions that unfortunately seems to afflict most Indians. However, to be fair, most Brits harbour their own biases and delusions about Indian history as well. I was not exaggerating Bhagat Singh or Subhas Chandra Bose's impact on the independence movement, but clarifying what they were and in the case of Bose and the INA, simply putting things into context. You claim that the Brits were not threatened by Bose's activities and the INA, which is false. All evidence points otherwise. And your claim that they had little ideology shows that you know very little about them. Bose decided to undertake a violent struggle, after a severe crackdown on Indian nationalists during Churchill's term. It wasn't even clear when the Brits would leave, or if at all. I'm not going to pursue this argument any further, but in conclusion, I would like to state this. It is very easy to sit in an air-conditioned room behind a monitor screen and snobbishly pass judgements on Indian revolutionaries as ``confused``, ``disturbed``, ``grandiose``, and ``driven by a martyr complex``. However, the fact of the matter remains that you are not an Indian, but a Brit. You are in no position to judge them. You do not share their experiences, neither do you have any idea about what living as conquered subjects under one foreign invader after another for a thousand years does to one's self-esteem. While they did make many positive contributions to India, the fact remains that the British Raj was not a benevolent entity motivated by paternal concern, but rather a foreign exploitative imperialist power which only looked upon the country as one incredibly vast estate, and most of its inhabitants as dirt cheap labour and cannon fodder. Any positive contributions towards India was purely incidental and only intended to facilitate its exploitation. Their negative effects on the country far superseded those, and continues to afflict the entire Indian subcontinent to this date. Any form of resistance against such a malevolent entity  was well-justified.   `