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Indian princes pleaded Lord Mountbatten not to leave.
Many Indians were in a state of shock on hearing the news that British decided to leave India.
Nehru and Indian elite gave the British a grand and tearful send off.
Why don't you ask
@Joe Shearer if his father or Suhrawardy fought the British.
Most Indians were happy to work under the British.
Ambedkar's father served as a soldier in British Indian Army.
Thousands of Indians died fighting for the British in WW I and WW II.
All the elites like Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, Jinnah went to England to study.
At the outbreak of the Indian rebellion, on 10 May 1857, Sir Syed was serving as the chief assessment officer at the court in Bijnor. He stood by the British officers of Bijnor and saved the lives of many British officers and their family members from the revolting soldiers. That was enough for him to get the knighthood.