• Kusimulkku
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    3 months ago

    Point seems to have been that it was a succesful non-violent revolution

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      3 months ago

      The article I posted above gets into this, but it was not. The British did not quit India because some guy went on a hunger strike, and they actively propagate pacifist myths like his because they are completely unthreatening.