Bose foresaw that the British would try to divide the country before leaving. He pointed out that the main feature of British imperialist policy in India was a policy of ‘divide and rule’ that set one community against another. He said, ‘It is a well-known truism that every empire is based on a policy of divide and rule. But I doubt if any empire in the world has practiced this policy so skilfully, systematically and ruthlessly as Great Britain.
