Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.s2.16

c5.s2.16

It was, perhaps, only belatedly that the people of India began to comprehend the futility of such traditional protests in relation to authorities wholly subscribing to an alien value system and who thus had nothing in common with themselves. Such a realisation on the one hand, would have made them turn to violence; and on the other, reduced them more and more to passivity and inertness.