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Between India and the British crown, one can’t really speak of a love story, and for good reason: seventy-five years after the end of the brutal colonial regime that was established on the Indian subcontinent, memories of a British presence for almost two years. one hundred years remains a painful time for Indians.
If India, through the voice of its Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II minutes after the official announcement of her death on September 8, 2022, the country’s strongman has clearly indicated on August 15, in his speech celebrating Independence Day, that he wants to ” decolonize” the country.
At the Prime Minister’s encouragement, a British-built road originally called “Kingsway” has been renamed “Kartavya Lane”, which means “Road of Duty” in Hindi. Recently, Narendra Modi unveiled a statue of India’s controversial freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose at the same spot where a statue of King George V stood until 1960. Despite the renaming of the monument, parts of Indian society expect an apology from Britain for the atrocity. . committed, such as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.
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