REL 2027 Chapter : Gandhi
Document Summary
Gandhi"s tactic of non-violence is often foolishly credited with the peaceful liberation of india. This claim would be more impressive if the british empire hadn"t expired but was still around with a large retinue of colonies, instead of having disposed of its colonies, many around the same time as india. And considering the bloodshed of partition, despite gandhi"s best attempts at appeasing muslims it was hardly peaceful. Yet despite the hypocrisies that have dotted gandhi"s life, his ideas continue to have a powerful hold on the western imagination. Few would seriously argue that had gandhi been facing imperial japan (whose brutal conquest of asia he briefly supported) or nazi germany or even the. British empire of the 19th century, that non-violence would have been nothing more than an invitationto a bullet. Yet that is exactly what first world nations are expected to do when confronted with terrorism. Not long after 9/11 slogans were already appearing on posters challenging, what would.
