Well, suppressing dissent using the military is kind of the opposite of granting independence, isn't it? There's no way to both say "you are now independent, we

Well, suppressing dissent using the military is kind of the opposite of granting independence, isn't it? There's no way to both say "you are now independent, we no longer will interfere" and then immediately quash violence with a massive military crackdown. As for stoking up division via divide-and-rule, that's a very subjective claim of the sort we should treat with suspicion. Clearly, the tensions didn't decrease once British rule ended, they ramped up drastically.