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Self-rule that copies English institutions without the English would only make India English
Drawn from what Mahatma Gandhi said
What Mahatma Gandhi actually said
- Mahatma Gandhi Leader of India's nonviolent independence movement (1869 to 1948)
You want the tiger's nature, but not the tiger; that is to say, you would make India English, and when it becomes English, it will be called not Hindustan but Englistan. This is not the Swaraj that I want.
Where this was said
↗Indian Home Rule (Hind Swaraj) (tr. M. K. Gandhi, 1910; 5th ed. 1922)gutenberg.org
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