How our freedom struggle would have been without gandhi?
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We all know Bapu came back to India in 1915, so we had struggles for independence even before his arrival. Some of my analysis are:
If First war of independence (1857 sepoy mutiny) would have stong leader or understands between leaders of revolt or if it would have got support from all masses we would have attained swaraj back then only.
If Moderates (early INC leaders) would have bit aggressive and coop up with the Extremists then India would have granted dominion status in swadesi movement.
These were two major national events took place before Gandhi’s arrival. Now let's see after his arrival.
Home Rule League movement, it was largely unsuccessful because Annie Besant become loyal to British over night after Montego’s declaration, Tilak flew Britain.
Non cooperation movement (NCM) was the first national level movement where it connected masses from grass root level. Of course Gandhi was leader for this movement, if not him, this movement would have been more violent after Chauri Choura incident and we would have lost millions after that.
India would have some how attain freedom we had potential leaders like Nehru, Bose, Patel, Bheem Rao, Rajaji, CR Das etc. But India would have been even more worse today without Mahatma Gandhi:
India’s communal disturbance would be even more complicated if Poona Pact didn't took place.
Dalits would have got separated after Independence, or they would have even got suppressed if communal award of Mc.Donald was ratified.
Young leaders like Nehru, Bose were very aggressive in their own ways were obeying Gandhi, there would have been further split in congress without him, and would have delayed freedom.
India would have broken into many pieces.
Communal harmony was possible in Naukali after his visit. It was possible in western frontier if he would have visited, but he was shot dead on his way. We would have peaceful western frontier like what we have in Eastern now.
Indians would have taken a lot of time to realize national unity without him. Because Moderates hate Extremists, Hindus hate Muslims, there was not unity among us.
Finally without Mahatma Gandhi we would have attained freedom but we would have even more complicated problems along with existing problems.
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