The aftermath of WWI, the economic chaos of WWII saw colonial powers more reliant on their empires than ever before. Britain and France especially wanted to use their empires' raw materials as a way of earning needed dollars and rebuild their destroyed countries. It is this need for additional exploitation that pushes (however slowly) more and more colonized people to support independence movements. Additionally, the war (including the reasons that justified the fighting) discredits the ideology behind empires (that some countries are fit for ruling others). I also want you to consider the humanitarian crisis and chaos that the war and its end brings (especially as the traditional empires-Britain and France-are weakened now) and how many of these stories are just now being told.
For Gandhi-How does Gandhi reverse the idea of Western superiority/Indian inferiority? How does Nehru argue for the importance of unity (against the divisions imposed by the British)?