Most Paris were unhappy with Indian independence - Book Review: The Good Parsi

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From: Luhrmann, T.M. "The Good Parsi: The fate of a colonial elite in a postcolonial society". Harvard University Press, 1996

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In conversation after conversation, Parsis told me that the majority of Parsis had been unhappy with Independence. Older Parsis in particular remembered that the community was uncomfortable with Gandhi and with his insults to the British. The upper class, they said, may have been nationalist, but not the majority, which generally consisted of deeply committed Anglophiles. A middle-aged Parsi woman told this story: a friend of hers was taken by her father to watch the flag-crossing ceremony on August 15, 1947. As the Union Jack descended and the Indian tricolor rose, the father said to his adolescent daughter, "With that flag going down, law and order in this country have disappeared."