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    2 months ago

    Ghandi’s revolution succeeded through mass noncompliance.

    Nonviolence was a luxury Ghandi could afford during the revolution because Indians outnumbered British soldiers by something like 20k to 1. There was no world where the recently weakened UK (after WW2) could hold India once it decided to become independent.