BTW -- being a fully resident citizen of said nation who was born a few decades after 1947 -- I personally do have an ambivalent attitude towards the British Raj. I guess not all of the administrators were merciless tyrants and scoundrels, and neither were all of them benevolent angels. I don't subscribe to Ishiguro's views expressed in the quote under discussion, either.
That said, one cannot wish the facts away, which is what I was trying to put across, albeit ham-handedly, in my earlier comment.
That said, one cannot wish the facts away, which is what I was trying to put across, albeit ham-handedly, in my earlier comment.