And what of the mass displacement, death, and destruction of the Second World War? 70 million dead, most major cities destroyed, the expansion of Soviet rule over Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the rise of the Cold War, the rise of Maoist China (and the deaths of over 20 million civilians that resulted), and the creation of Israel and the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict?

The picture becomes even worse when you consider WW II was a direct consequence of WW I and it’s very poor resolution. That war resulted in over 20 million dead, entire countrysides ravaged, and the Russian revolution, that murdered close to 12 million, followed by Stalin’s purges and forced famine (the Holodomor) that killed an additional 10 million before WW II even started.

Don’t get me wrong. I am NOT saying the partition of India wasn’t a terrible tragedy and a crime committed by Britain (one of countless crimes committed on the subcontinent alone). But all of that is exceeded by the consequences of World War I and II by orders of magnitude.