Sher-e-Hindustan: Your apparent lack of knowledge of the history of British colonialism in Ireland is breathtaking. Historians have seriously examined the issue of whether Ireland was the most brutally governed of all Britain's colonies and concluded that it may well have been. Sure, the Irish famine occurred in the 19th century, but that's not the only applicable bit of Ireland's colonial history to consider. Ireland lost over half its population during the period covering from the 1840s to the 1930s. And it did not in fact free itself from colonial rule until the 1920s, which in my understanding was well into the 20th century. Perhaps you have a different definition of the 20th century?