Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
Okay more like I have a level of ambivalence that is generally a stalemate between "great that he managed to start a precident of great change without bloodshed" and "did he really have to campaign for independence, what's wrong with emancipation and equality in a joined India and Britain?"
JFR crediting Gandhi with beginning the struggle for independence of India is wrong. Political leaders, even before Gandhi had entered the scene, had been struggling to get some sort of autonomy for India.