[BufordP]

Ghandi and the Indians also had the fortune of having the British as their oppressors.

[goldstategop]

True. Pacifist resistance is noble practiced against a power will humanitarian benevolence. It is a prescription for civilizational suicide when proferred to a regime that has no compunction about liquidating its opponents.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[nina0113]

Ghandi and the Indians also had the fortune of having the British as their oppressors.

Yep - if the Russians had won "The Great Game", the only thing that would have been accomplished by lying on the railroad tracks would have been to turn live Indians into dead ones.

[Gator101]

Ghandi and the Indians also had the fortune of having the British as their oppressors.

How true. Your comment reminded me of Dinesh D’Souza’s excellent book “What’s so great about America” were he remembers a history teacher he admired telling him that if Hitler had be running India, Gandhi would have been turned into a lampshade.

[PzLdr]

I read at least one [and I think more] alternative history Sci Fi stories where Gandhi comes up against Nazi occupation of India. He doesn’t fare real well in those stories.

Dinesh D’sousa quoted one of his teachers in India who said that if Hitler had been running India as a colony, Gandhi would have been a lampshade [or words to that effect].