Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.2
Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.2
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c5.2
The past half century or so, however, does not substantiate this image of docility and submissiveness. Many, in fact, regret the supposed transformation. But all, whether they deplore or welcome it, attribute it to the spread of European ideas of disaffection, and most of all to the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the public life of India. According to them, the people of India would have remained inert, docile and submissive if they somehow could have been protected from the European infection and from Mahatma Gandhi.