Question

State your opinion:

The end of Second World War created an environment in which the process of decolonisation gained speed.

Answer 1

1. The process of decolonisation was accelerated in short time because of the conflicts among European coloniser countries, occurrence of First and Second World Wars and the anti-colonial movements in the colonies.
2. The European countries could not have reasoned out colonisation and the exploitation of colonies from intellectual platform.
3. The Indian freedom movement had reached culminating point, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
4. Under the situation England had become aware of the reality of their diminishing power. This resulted in gradually introducing the system of internal autonomy in some of the colonies.