Was British rule accepted in India at the beginning of the twentieth century?
By 1900 India (that icludes the present day Pakistan, Bangladesh & Burma), British consolidated their Empire here spread over 1.8 million square miles of territory. It was partly under the British as their administered provinces and the rest under more than 500 princes, loyal vassals of the British Crown. The subjects of this empire didn’t have the right to accept or reject it as this is not a ‘democratic’ but ‘Imperial’ arrangement. So your question is redundent. Indians that includes Burmese, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis (the term was non-existent before 1947) or their forefathers known as ‘Indians’ then, of the same ethnic stock or conglomeration of a racial mish-mash were obviousely (no proof required; I wouldn’t believe if someone said ‘They loved their British masters’) opposed to British rule but were helpless to do anyting to drive them away to their Isles. There was a ‘First War of Indian (don’t confuse with those with feathered headgear found in North America when the white ma
