<!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Oct 14 2006, 04:15 AM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Oct 14 2006, 04:15 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-acharya+Oct 14 2006, 08:38 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(acharya @ Oct 14 2006, 08:38 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->
..... British did not want to negotiate with Gandhi since was too powerful and he negotiated <b>under his own terms</b>.
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Acharya, what might be those terms?
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Satyagraha was Gandhi's biggest weapon and he used it to put the govt of the British India to their knees. Gandhi' was able to manipulate the terms of negotiation and kept the Govt under pressure who could never fanthom his next move.
Some of the quotes from the British govt officials and British politician will show that they did not want to negotiate with Gandhi during the independence and avoided dealing with the crucial talks with Gandhi.
Gandhi was still a product of his time and may have the socially engineered thought process of living in a dominion just as his generation had come to accept for over 100 years. But he had the clarity of mind to see that the British were weak and British cannot rule over the country without the support of the people.
Once he found a way to completely change the loyalty of the people in the villages and towns away from the British govt he knew that he could make the British come to his terms. It took him some time but the 1942 Quit Indian movement was the most critical juncture in Indian History where Indian Independence leaders and Gandhi found that they had the power to put pressure on British govt when British govt was down under the weight of WWII.
Churchill and Britian never forgave Gandhi and Nehru for that blow to the war effort in WWII which undermined the British plans to start a second front in Europe against Nazi Germany after 1941. This information from the Britian side and WWII side of the history is never explained to the Indians. The enormity of this situation has to be seen that Britian raised the biggest army at that time with Indian troops of 2.5 Million. Britain owed $15 BILLION to the dominions/Princes for the war effort and the troops for the WAR. They had to get a loan of $4 BILLION from the US after the war to keep solvent.
One of the reason that the Indian soldiers of the WWII in the British Indian army are not recognized after WWII is because British were not happy with 1942 Quit Indian Army. Of course they didnt have to pay for the troops since all the Princely states of India who loaned troops to the Crown were completely dissolved after independence.
Quit India movement along with the Indian Navy Mutiny completely made the British govt vulnerable in 1945 itself. They actively worked with Jinnah and ML after 1946 for the partition of India.
There is lot of information which is still not open yet.
Few people who have been researching these information now believe that British govt is responsible for the death of Mahatma Gandhi. There is a rumour that British paid of Congress and Hindu Mahasabha so as not to investigate the murder and take the blame for the murder!
..... British did not want to negotiate with Gandhi since was too powerful and he negotiated <b>under his own terms</b>.
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Acharya, what might be those terms?
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Satyagraha was Gandhi's biggest weapon and he used it to put the govt of the British India to their knees. Gandhi' was able to manipulate the terms of negotiation and kept the Govt under pressure who could never fanthom his next move.
Some of the quotes from the British govt officials and British politician will show that they did not want to negotiate with Gandhi during the independence and avoided dealing with the crucial talks with Gandhi.
Gandhi was still a product of his time and may have the socially engineered thought process of living in a dominion just as his generation had come to accept for over 100 years. But he had the clarity of mind to see that the British were weak and British cannot rule over the country without the support of the people.
Once he found a way to completely change the loyalty of the people in the villages and towns away from the British govt he knew that he could make the British come to his terms. It took him some time but the 1942 Quit Indian movement was the most critical juncture in Indian History where Indian Independence leaders and Gandhi found that they had the power to put pressure on British govt when British govt was down under the weight of WWII.
Churchill and Britian never forgave Gandhi and Nehru for that blow to the war effort in WWII which undermined the British plans to start a second front in Europe against Nazi Germany after 1941. This information from the Britian side and WWII side of the history is never explained to the Indians. The enormity of this situation has to be seen that Britian raised the biggest army at that time with Indian troops of 2.5 Million. Britain owed $15 BILLION to the dominions/Princes for the war effort and the troops for the WAR. They had to get a loan of $4 BILLION from the US after the war to keep solvent.
One of the reason that the Indian soldiers of the WWII in the British Indian army are not recognized after WWII is because British were not happy with 1942 Quit Indian Army. Of course they didnt have to pay for the troops since all the Princely states of India who loaned troops to the Crown were completely dissolved after independence.
Quit India movement along with the Indian Navy Mutiny completely made the British govt vulnerable in 1945 itself. They actively worked with Jinnah and ML after 1946 for the partition of India.
There is lot of information which is still not open yet.
Few people who have been researching these information now believe that British govt is responsible for the death of Mahatma Gandhi. There is a rumour that British paid of Congress and Hindu Mahasabha so as not to investigate the murder and take the blame for the murder!