Make a reflection on the topic given below.
Discuss how different would have been the achievement of independence without Mahatma Gandhi?
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Answer:
Indian Independence without Mahatma Gandhi: Free India would have fragmented without Gandhi. Gandhi held no political office, and tended to stay back, and managed to keep the peoples and leaders together. ... And he/they would have succeeded in achieving the independence sooner or later than 1947.
Explanation:
Although there were many great leaders among the congress. Someone of them would have given the vision and philosophy and leadership needed. And he/they would have succeeded in achieving the independence sooner or later than 1947. But nature of this independence can’t be ascertained.
The armed revolutionary movement could have become prominent and India might have got independence after a great armed rebellion. This didn’t happen in India because the innovative ways of Gandhiji.
The path chosen by him included a vast majority of people of India in to the freedom struggle. Simple acts by individuals such as refusing to use foreign goods, refusing to pay taxes, lifting a fistful of salt, quitting government schools and jobs became the weapons of freedom struggle. This gave a feeling of integrity among the people. They embraced the struggle as their own.
Without Gandhi, there would not have such mass mobilisation in such a short span of time. All the classes of the people would not have united under one banner or leader.The freedom movement could have been violent without Gandhi.