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>you folks look a lot like your neighbours and spoke similar languages.
bro, many of your leaders of the independence movement spoke English like Oxford graduates (well, many of them indeed graduated from British unis) and were more familiar with British culture and literature than that of their native culture/language.
>Besides, there were a considerable amount of voices that hated the idea of an independent india
There were a lot of indifferent people here too. Remember that it's always the elites who write the history down, especially if we're talking about history 100 years ago when most people here were illiterate. Our elites wanted independence because well, it's always better to be an aristocrat in your own country where you dictate the laws as you like it, than be an aristocrat in a foreign country where you're subjected to random whims of a foreign king and today you're a big landowner and tomorrow you own nothing.
But when it comes to average rural folks, a lot of them were indifferent to the idea of an independent Poland, because it meant nothing to them, as they weren't taught any history, for them "Polishness" was just about speaking Polish and being catholic, and as long as they could do both things under this or that king, whatever the name of the country was, was totally not important to them. Some were even straight hostile to independence, because they were afraid that when local aristocrats seize political power, they will impose even worse economic conditions on them than they had with foreign rulers (I guess it was the same in India - many Indians preferred British occupants to local rajas because Brits taxed them less).
But at the end, since most rurals were illiterate and inept, it was eventually elite's will that prevailed. And then through the universal education system the idea of independence was already transferred to every Pole, including the rural folks. That worked a similar way for most eastern European nations.
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