Chapter 180 Building a New India

The British army in India had different sizes at different times, during the Great Indian Uprising. Britain mobilized five hundred British battalions from the mainland, equivalent to 200,000 British soldiers. During the First World War. Britain had a standing army of nearly seventy thousand men stationed in India.

Also excluding British officers and non-commissioned officers of the British Indian Army. During the Second World War, the troops posted in India, mobilized from the Home Rule territories and the British mainland, were roughly between three hundred and five hundred thousand. This excludes British officers and British non-commissioned officers in the two million three hundred and fifty thousand Indian Volunteer Force.

The British Army in India was currently in the midst of withdrawal, as was the British Army everywhere after the war, but there were still a hundred thousand of them throughout British India, and Allen Wilson felt that a hundred thousand sized British Army would be sufficient.

Can guarantee the safety of 100,000 British Indian civil servants, do not look at the number of British troops is not large, in World War II in Southeast Asia in the battlefield is also obviously more general, but does not mean that the British army really can not fight.

A certain part of the entire British army is still very much possible, it’s just that Britain, as a country focused on the navy, the army can only cope with wars below a certain scale.

Once the scale of the war exceeded the entire threshold, the performance of the British army began to pull its crotch, and at the same time, the British army had all the fine traditions of the British Empire, such as selling out its teammates.

At least when facing the Indians, Alan Wilson definitely had this confidence, he did not believe that 100,000 British troops would be wiped out in British India, and the top brass of the Congress Party and the PML-N, did not have the guts to do so.

The most crucial thing is that, because of the disagreement over the treatment of British India, London itself is now in disagreement over how to deal with British India, but Allen Wilson and the civil servants of British India, on how to deal with it can quickly agree.

The time to make decisions was certainly much quicker than in distant London, and Alan Wilson’s return made a lot of people very happy. But this definitely did not include Mountbatten himself, who found his daughter more and more disobedient.

Seeing how his daughter was behaving, if one thought about it in a vulgar way, if Alan Wilson wanted to do his daughter in, she would probably be happy to open her legs.

Fortunately, he has heard a certain amount of wind, London intends to transfer himself to the Mediterranean fleet, when the time comes, as long as the daughter to take away, can be far away from the young commissioner’s assistant who killed back.

Alan Wilson was so busy, of course, that he had no idea of the ill will Pamela Mountbatten’s father had for him, and he was busy looking around with his sword drawn to see if there was anything he needed to step up to.

There are plenty of problems, but they don’t necessarily require him to step up personally, and he can’t weaken the Pacifists, so the Duran line can’t be used. The territorial dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan has its origins in the Durand Line, which was introduced in 1893.

Under British pressure, Afghanistan received a delegation in the person of Durand, the Foreign Secretary of British India, and Afghanistan was forced to accept the Durand Agreement, agreeing to the Anglo-Russian arrangement on the eastern border of Afghanistan and the British delimitation of the southern border of Afghanistan.

At that time, Britain presented King Rahman with the Durand Agreement, written in English, which was mainly concerned with the demarcation of the border between Afghanistan and British India.

Rahman was forced to give up his claim to Swat, Bajaur and Chitral and bailed out Asmar alone.

Accordingly, millions of Shittus were transferred to the side of British India, which ceased to exist with the independence of India and Pakistan in 2007. Afghanistan and Pakistan were once again plunged into hostilities over the Durand Line.

Alan Wilson could not go after the pacifist areas in the northwest, it would have fueled the Congress Party, which was already in a dominant position, and most importantly was not in keeping with the British Empire’s tradition of supporting the strong and supporting the weak.

As for the McMahon red line? This line has also appeared long ago, and there is no Allen Wilson’s role. In terms of his current position, it’s not like he needs to get involved and just pretend he doesn’t see it.

The assistant commissioner is still essentially more interested in cashing in, and thinking about it, as the newly appointed assistant commissioner, he first liaised with the British office on the Tibetan Plateau.

Britain entered the South Asian subcontinent later than the Portuguese and French, but came later, with the East India Company’s annexation of Bhutan’s Kuchi Bahar and conflict with Bhutan in 1700, and has since touched the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and begun to establish commercial relations.

The current British representative in Tibet is called Lai Gee Seng, and has been a permanent representative since 1936. He graduated from Keble College, Oxford University. He joined the Indian Ministry in 1930, was posted to Bengal in the same year, and was Deputy Governor of Tamluk, Midnapore District, in the 1930s. During this period he took advantage of his leave to visit Sikkim and Pali.

Afterwards he was transferred to the Foreign and Political Department, a subdivision of the Ministry of Indian Affairs, where he became acquainted with Gould, the British Political Attaché in Sikkim, and in then became the British representative on the Tibetan plateau.

Compared with the administrators of the eighteen provinces of British India and the fourteen commissioners of the native states in addition to Alan Wilson himself, Lai Jisheng’s weight in British India was actually not very great, and the Tibetan plateau was indeed a bird’s eye view of the place. Alan Wilson would never have gone there anyway.

The strategic importance can let the knowledgeable people to go, his kind of wine bags will not charge forward. It’s like the nationalists crying out to march into Siberia while the north-easterners migrate south. Those who shout slogans go and freeze, don’t move your mouth.

Receiving an invitation from the new commissioner, Lai Kisheng, who was staying in Sikkim temporarily because of the snow cover, was overjoyed as the telegram was full of hints of a possible promotion, and left for New Delhi at once.

In fact, Allen Wilson had no interest in this representative, and the greatest achievement on the other side should be that before World War II, he had once fought with the Third Reich’s expedition on the plateau.

When the Third Reich’s expedition entered the plateau, the locals were not unfamiliar with this symbol, “*” or “swastika” in Tibetan Buddhism and the ancient Benjaminism have special religious meanings, they can be seen everywhere in the snowy region. The symbol has even won the favor of some of the people who have come all the way to Europa, who, in their opinion, may also be followers of the Dharma.

But the representative of Lai Jisheng, who was on the plateau with these Germans, engaged in an unnoticed quarrel with the public.

Beyond that, there was little to write home about, and Alan Wilson remembers as if Lai Gee Sang well served the Indians after the independence of British India, which was intolerable, and he could not allow the Indians to receive the legacy of the British Empire.

The British legacy around India was to be fully cashed out before British India became independent so that the Indians could not receive it.

Probably because of the incentive of the profits of the tobacco factories, there was no waiting for Christmas at all, administrators and commissioners from all over the world had already flocked to express their enjoyment of Alan Wilson, and one by one, the brain-soaked administrators had said that they had felt that the boy was not a pool of talent as far back as when Alan Wilson was still the commissioner of Hyderabad.

In response to this compliment, Alan Wilson, of course, expressed modesty, while presenting a deposit slip from the Royal Bank of Scotland.

“Honorable gentlemen, Sir Edward is pleased with the performance of the gentlemen in such a difficult time. The determination of the gentlemen to hold on to their positions during this post-war period is heartwarming. Now the economic revitalization plan for the homeland will require everyone to redouble their efforts.”

Alan Wilson raised his glass and congratulated everyone while expressing how much he missed British India, “I look forward to returning to New Delhi and working with you all all all the time, and now I am finally back.”

“Alan, to be appreciated by the Cabinet Secretary, the future must be unimaginable.” After Alan Wilson expressed how much he missed British India, the provincial administrators also returned the favor by tucking in their bank deposit slips, indicating that everyone also wished for Alan Wilson’s return all the time.

“This time I have come back, naturally, in the spirit of the British Empire’s care for British India. With goodwill to the many subjects in South Asia, I return to build India where the dream began.” After taking a drink, Alan Wilson spoke, “We want to build a new India for the benefit of all British India’s subjects. Let the jewel of the British Empire shine even brighter.”

Alan Wilson then spoke his plan, about to immediately start a wave of construction in British India, so that all Indians could feel a bright future?

“What is this for?” Burke, the administrator of the United Provinces, said in some confusion, “What we should be doing is transferring as much wealth as possible to Britain, shouldn’t we?”

“That’s only one aspect!” Alan Wilson explained with a gentle look, “And it was a very crude approach, in fact, there was a better approach, we worked out a set of economic revitalization plans, and everyone knew that once it was implemented, the whole of India would be strong. But he simply couldn’t finish implementing it! Spend all the funds of British India, and in the plan we mount all the projects that cost a lot of money.”

“In agriculture, we have to ensure the needs of Europe, I see that next year we should expand cotton cultivation, after all, the textile industry as a labor-intensive industry, can solve the employment problem of many native citizens.”

Alan Wilson eloquent, elaborating on his glorious ideal of building a great India, what Nehru, what Gandhi also figure a pleasure, that are false founding fathers of India.

The real father of the Indian nation, but also Allen Wilson, the great India wants to be great again, you have to follow his route.

When all the wealth accumulated in British India has been spent, wouldn’t it be nice for everyone to pat themselves on the back together then?

“I want all the provinces to be fully electrified, and we should build a dam here.”

After a short period of silence, the atmosphere of the conference room immediately warmed up, the provincial administrators began to discuss what projects were suitable to be launched in the places under their own administration, there had never been such a time when everyone was so attached to the development of India.