MMS is not like typical politicians and he has a tendency to say what he really feels. Note here that the passage you quote was from a big speech and in the beginning of the speech, he berated British empire: " There is no doubt that our grievance against the British Empire had a sound basis. As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge historian Angus Maddison has shown, India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6 per cent in 1700, almost equal to Europe's share of 23.3 per cent at that time, to as low as 3.8 per cent in 1952. " While in Britain, he gave a balanced view of what a lot of people think. Point me to another speech by an Indian prime minister which pointed out above..
