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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: jttmab who wrote (166579)7/20/2005 10:57:53 AM
From: one_less  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
"Ghandi is a great example. To the best of my knowledge Ghandi was never armed by foreign countries to overthrow Britain. An exceptional case. And his timing was great. 1947. Britain was recovering from WWII, paying it's debts to the US and contributing to the Marshall Plan. They couldn't afford to fight in India."

They could have fought a military war with India and easily won. They were already in India and had Indians under their Military rule.

Ghandi's approach was exceptional for another reason. Ghandi was a man of conscience and he was lucid. He had lived in and been educated within the British culture. He understood the hearts, minds, and conscience of the British people.

There was no way that the British people could consciously support their military marching across passive British subjects while beating them to death with clubs. The circumstance was highly publicized in Great Britian, which brought the whole matter to a close.

If it had been the Russians who were ruling India at the time, Ghandi would have needed a completely different strategy than civil disobediance paired with passive resistance. Ghandi was very cognisant of the consciousness of the British and was successful for that reason.
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