What is "understandable" about a group of individuals (India's early leaders), due to their irrational fears, deciding that ANOTHER group of individuals (the people of India) are incapable of making important decisions. For anyone who, like you, purports to believe in Freedom it should be seen as an extremely arrogant and tyrannical attitude. Tyrannical government is never understandable nor acceptable under any circumstance.
Freedom and Independence are two separate things. Independence alone is meaningless. If I were a slave, what difference does it make if my master was British or Indian? Did the Indian people rid themselves of the British only to become slaves of the Congress Party's whims? India may have gained "independence" from Britain in 1947, but it was not (and still isn't in many respects) a truly free society.
