"Anyone who makes the same effort as I do, with the same expectations and confidence, can do everything I have done." I am convinced of this. ”
In the course of the world's recent history, there have obviously been countless turbulent and exciting events or countries, the independence of India and the most important people among them, and Gandhi is obviously the most special example of these countless historical events.
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All along, there have been many studies on India, the analysis and discussion of Gandhi has been very long-lasting, India is such a special country and civilization, Gandhi is a complex figure with a turning point in this special period, "non-violent non-cooperation" is a clear label for the proposition he said to represent, it is in this seemingly very incredible method, India is really independent and successful, Gandhi is also known as the father of the new India.
Gandhi in front of the spinning wheel
But why was Gandhi, who had achieved so much, ended up being assassinated by the Hindus? What was Gandhi's position in the heroic 20th century? How do we view Gandhi as a historical figure? To get a good understanding of Gandhi's character, you must know the environment in which he grew up and the environment of his time.
Gandhi this person has not been living in India since he was a child, like many Indians with better families, because India has been colonized by the British Empire, and many Indians with better families will send their children to the British Empire to study, gandhi is one of them.
▲ The first Anglo-Indian Governor's Palace in Jaipur
Gandhi has always been more enthusiastic about political activities, he even went to South Africa during his studies to fight for the rights of Indians, India has been colonized by the British Empire is a knot in Gandhi's beginnings as a teenager, and more peculiarly, he also received a local education in the British Empire, knew the British parliamentary system, and also saw the situation of the South African colonies when he went to South Africa to shout. Gandhi can be said to have had many experiences, seen many situations, and the idea of "non-violent non-cooperation" began to appear in his mind.
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India has a very long history of colonization and has been ruled by foreign colonizers. In modern times, the British Empire gained the final colonial power, and the final colonial power of The British was the result of the neutralization of the Mughal Dynasty and many other forces, and the British Empire could become the largest empire in human history, one was to rely on the crushing situation of the ship's guns and guns, and the other was to rely on the political tactics of offshore balance. The British balance allowed them to gain the greatest imperial dominance in the world, and this diplomatic balance also made Britain the protagonist of many world political conspiracy theories.
▲British colonial India (painting)
One of the most famous conspiracy theories is that the British deliberately created a contradiction between Hinduism and Islam in the Indian region, and created a conflict between islamic forces and Jewish forces in the Palestinian areas of the Middle East.
If you slowly ponder, you can find that the historical facts are not like this, although the British Empire relies on the art of power to run rampant in the whole world and stir up the storm, but the British Empire cannot make a flat thunderclap, and can only rely on the adjustment and balance of the existing existing forces to maintain its dominance, but it cannot really turn its hands into clouds and hands for rain. The British Empire itself was full of contradictions, and the contradictions of various clan rights also exhausted the increasingly large British Empire.
▲ The territory of the British Empire at its peak
To put it simply, the results of these conspiracy theories were not created by the British Empire, but precisely by the British Empire, and the natural contradictions within the British Empire plunged the entire Empire into a struggle for internal friction and the distribution of benefits, and this contradiction even if the British had the ability to reach the heavens, they would not have the ability to return to heaven.
It was the helplessness of the British Empire that gave Gandhi a rare living space, and the attitude of "non-violent non-cooperation" can be said to have completely hit the hearts and minds of many Indians who have the dream of pursuing independence. If we open the history and sum up the experience of history, we can see that India has not organized a strong resistance in the face of foreign colonial rule, nor has it had an organization that pursues independent development, and basically every violent resistance has been ruthlessly suppressed.
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The most crucial point is that India's very unique caste system, this ancient system of hierarchical social distribution, and the British colonists have always maintained an inexplicable and inextricable connection. In this way, the British Empire's rule in India can be said to be impregnable, but it is even more difficult to obtain an independent India through violent means.
Gandhi led India to break the "salt law"
For example, Gandhi made an article on salt, he encouraged the Indian people to make their own salt, not to buy the British Empire's salt, this unprecedented confrontation did have an effect, did make the British shrink on this issue, but the question is, is it really Gandhi's "non-violent non-cooperation" that finally freed India from the colonial rule of the British Empire and made India independent?
In fact, the answer is no, Gandhi's "non-violent non-cooperation" is not the root cause of India's independence, the fundamental reason is still the famous world war, The Second World War.
▲ Old photo of Gandhi
In the later period of World War II, there was the "Pearl Harbor Incident" that shocked the world, and in the face of the desperate bets and madness of the Japanese army, the United States behaved very negatively, which was actually very strange when it was analyzed after the war, and the Japanese army that was addicted to raids achieved great success after the surprise attack on the Philippines, and even forced MacArthur, who had always been a general who was always a victorious general, to flee into the wilderness.
▲Old photo of "Pearl Harbor Incident"
As soon as the American army left, the British army was left behind, and the British army had to face the fierce offensive of the Japanese army alone, and for the British, they had to win in the face of victory, for nothing else, or a colony. Only by winning the war would Britain's colonies in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, would be stable and would not hesitate to fall to Britain, and with these cards Britain would continue to control India securely, as evidenced by the fact that the British Empire could still suppress india's rebellion around 1941.
So what exactly makes Britain careless and lose all the games? We will elaborate on this issue in a later article.
Resources:
The Biography of Gandhi
History of the Second World War