I am not saying anything, am just thinking aloud, questioning stupidly, you may think.
Which country today isn't free.  To how many countries and colonies did the Britain rule extend? How many of them still subsist ? Did all those freed, passed through the rigours of freedom struggle, like India did? What would have happened, if the East India Company  had not annexed India, turning it into the portfolio of the British Empire? Conceive of an India without the alleged draconian British Rule, perceiving the continuance of the erstwhile fragmented rule that India would have had. And lastly, what if there was no non violent freedom movement espoused by Gandhi. What would have been the fate of India. British Rule would have continued . Is it, like it continued all around, so much so that the sun refuses to set until the British Empire recedes unendingly?
We have good story tellers who have wasted much about conjuring up historical facts that are stranger than fiction. Why not conjure up an action replay , as could or could have been re-written.
This may seem hypothetical because we are short of that content which deficient quality and content of social science studies in India has occasioned.