India After Gandhi - pg. 5

Three months later, speaking at Albert Hall on "Our Duty To India" -- with his hinsman the duke of Marlborough presiding -- Churchill argued that "to abandon India to the rule of the Brahmans [who in his opinion dominated the Congress party] would be an act of cruel and wicked negligence." If the Britissh left, he predicted, then the entire gamut of public services creaated by them -- the judicical, medical, railway, and public works departments -- would perish, and India would "fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privations of the Middle Ages."