“I hated the imperialism I was serving with a bitterness which I probably cannot make clear. In the free air of England that kind of thing is not fully intelligible. In order to hate imperialism, you have got to be part of it. Seen from the outside the British rule in India appears—indeed, it is—benevolent and even necessary. . . . But it is not possible to be a part of such a system without recognizing it as an unjustifiable tyranny.”