Here come the usual looting and rioting doesn't solve anything comments.

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209. Two points?

1.) Gandhi lived in the late 18th-century? That would be the 1700s.

2.) The myth of Gandhi as a pacifist is just that...a myth. Gandhi conceded the primary reason he embraced pacifism was for lack of guns or forces to wield them; it's intrinsic to the 4th indictment of the British in the Purna Swaraj* (The 1930 Indian Declaration of Independence which the Indian National Congress led by Nehru and Gandhi ratified). It goes on only to reject violence because they're not capable of inflicting violence so even his non-violence was strident and his rhetoric aggressive. In the later civil war against Pakistan he supported the use of force.

*-Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think that we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families from the attacks of thieves, robbers and miscreants.