John (#8865),
...trying to remember, possibly good for the brain...
Yes - but it gets harder as the years roll by !
... getting a shave in bed, cut-throat razor...
One chap in Chakrata was supposed to be able to do this without waking you up !
...tea brought in the morning by the very people demanding independence..
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No,
they weren't ! The only difference Independence would make to him was that his new (Indian) Sahib would pay him a half (if he was very lucky) of what he was getting from us !
...and found it very frightening...
Yes, I was glad to get away home 18 months before, because we could see what was going to happen. As I've said somewhere: "When the hated colonial master went away, Pax Britannica went with him !" Death roll: two million (figure accepted at the time), or a million (revisionist historians who weren't there 70 years ago). Know which figure I prefer.
Danny.