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There are many reasons Gandhi's approach worked. One of them was the fear of 2 million newly armed and combat-experienced Indian soldiers returning home after W
by llamaimperative 2y ago
There are many reasons Gandhi's approach worked. One of them was the fear of 2 million newly armed and combat-experienced Indian soldiers returning home after WW2.
Nearly every successful peaceful revolution had a lurking threat of a less peaceful version nearby. Which isn't a bad thing and it doesn't discredit peaceful change, it just discredits the idea that people acquiesce to peaceful protests (exclusively) out of the goodness of their hearts.
- anon291 2y agoIn AL Basham's, 'the wonder that was India', he identifies several key differences in the idea of what a king is in India. It's nothing like the European version. There was no way India could have been properly ruled by the English crown. The understanding of monarchy is so different and also explains why so many kings happily agreed to become British vassals.