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The pre-British period was not a period of slavery. We had some sort…

Quote byMahatma Gandhi · 1869–1948

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Young India, April 13, 1921, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol 19, p. 477. Quoted in "Gandhi predicted communal discord would poison education, distort history", The Leaflet , September 5, 2021..

English (original)

The pre-British period was not a period of slavery. We had some sort of swaraj under Mogul rule. In Akbar’s time the birth of a Pratap was possible, and in Aurangzeb’s time a Sivaji could flourish. Has 150 years of British rule produced any Pratap and Sivaji?

— Mahatma Gandhi

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