You are WRONG! It is YOU who needs to learn your history, not me...Gandhi did nothing to hasten Indian independence. NOTHING! The Indian National Congress was under the spell of Gandhi, whose core convictions “in the innermost recesses of my heart” changed from day to day.
I hold Gandhi personally responsible for the butchery of Partition. The blood of a million people is on his hands.
India won independence in 1947, followed by the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, and partition of India. Gandhi
said, “Before partitioning India, my body will have to be
cut into two pieces.” About one million people died in the
bloody riots until partition was reluctantly asserted by
Gandhi as the only way to stop the Civil War. He urged the
Congress Party to accept partition, and launched his last
“fast-into-death” campaign in Delhi, calling for a stop to
all violence. Gandhi also called to give Pakistan the
550,000,000 rupees in honor of the partition agreement. He
tried to prevent instability and anger against India.
from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003987/bio
Gandhi did nothing to hasten Indian independence whatsoever, and according to V.S. Naipal, was so erratic and counterproductive to the independence movement, that he probably delayed Indian independence by about 20 years.
By the way, it’s Muhammad Ali Jinnah, not Jennah. And don’t call me “bro”.
Oh, no less an authority than VS Naipal, whoever the hell HE is ... Gandhi served as the nonviolent conscience of Indian independence, and forced the British to relinquish their stranglehold over the subcontinent without a shot being fired (at least in formal revolution). What Indian sects did after independence was not on Gandhi's hands. In fact, he fasted nearly to death to quell the ridiculous internecine squabbling that led to Muslim versus Hindu versus Sikh. He "conceded" to the National Congress only because he had no electoral authority, and Jenna's Muslims would have started a civil war otherwise.
By the way, it’s Muhammad Ali Jinnah, not Jennah.
By the way, it's V.S. Naipaul, not Naipal.
And don’t call me “bro”.
I thought it would be more polite than "idiot."