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Gandhi’s non violent approach did not work. Until external factors like WW2 forced the British Empire to get rid of most of their colonies. The British empire w
by darth_avocado 2y ago
Gandhi’s non violent approach did not work. Until external factors like WW2 forced the British Empire to get rid of most of their colonies. The British empire was content with letting Gandhi protest in the streets and regularly throw him in jail as soon as his protests inconvenienced them.
Benevolent empires don’t let millions of people die because they are too busy extracting resources from their colonies to care about them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943