End of Empires: who and what was responsible? (post WW2)

[Dayuhan]

Pssst... you have obviously never heard of the Atlantic Charter.

I have. What of it? Surely you're not going to maintain that any colonial power anywhere, least of all the British, rushed to divest colonies purely in observance of the Atlantic Charter.

Churchill, in the spirit and tradition of Perfidious Albion, would have gladly agreed to any postwar disposition necessary to sustain American aid. You can't possibly think he or the other colonial rulers ever intended to keep any of those promises, or that successive governments of colonial powers ever considered them binding.

[Ray]

Any comments with depth on British colonisation of India?