Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00810)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR<ramadoss@g...> wrote:



> Partition did not have anything to do with Gandhi's civil 
disobedience 
> strategy. I lived in India during the Partition days. The violence 
that 
> took place was the result of politicians exploiting religion and 
uneducated 
> poor population. India got its independence due to the sacrifices 
of Gandhi 
> and many of his followers. One just needs to look at India today. 
After 
> more than seven decades, it is still going strong as the world's 
largest 
> democracy.


Thank you for correcting me. I had in mind a statement of Gandhi, 
which I cannot trace, to one of his close associates during 
Partition in which he acknowledged that something had gone wrong. 
His message of secularism, on the other hand, may be directly 
responsible for the strength of post-independence India, a message 
that the BJP and RSS tried very hard to deny and suppress.


Pedro