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India was a champion of the Free World, we respect India's WW2 struggle in this house (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Taxes in India were significantly increased by Britain during the war, almost tripling if memory serves. India was still quite impoverished at this time, so it's no exaggeration to say that this imposition represented a massive extraction of wealth from India.