With the campaigns for Indian independence in the post-WWI years a bust, India settles into an uneasy kind of calm. The British might not have been able to properly grasp it, but lines had been crossed and the Indian people had placed themselves on a trajectory towards autonomy and separation. This was reflected not just in the political relationship with the UK, but the economic one as well. And despite the failures of the first half of the decade, by the second half of the 20s, a new generation of leaders was emerging to press for another confrontation with the colonial government.
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