Why our centenary celebrations should be in 2022 - not 2016
They knew no such thing because it didn’t happen, and it probably would not have happened until very much later.
Mr Bury cites the example of India, which did not gain independence until 1947, and it seems reasonable to suggest that Britain’s experience in a much smaller and closer colony, Ireland, made things a great deal easier for Gandhi and his followers almost 30 years later. Home Rule was an issue in Ireland since at least 1870, when the Home Rule Association was established, but its achievement was regularly thwarted by the Conservative majority in the House of Lords.
