Gandhi

India had always been well known throughout history but it had never been recognized as an independent nation. It was a colony of Great Britain. Mahatma Gandhi wanted to free India from the British Empire. He believed that the way to gain support for his cause was by peaceful means. He used non-violence to unite the colony of India for his goal. If the British Empire would strike him and he would not do anything back, the people who ened up looking bad are the British.

An example or rather the pillar of the noble cause of Gandhi would be the Amritsar Massacre. In the streets of Amritsar, an english woman claimed she had been molested. The local British authorities passed laws that required the Indians to crawl on their hands and knees on these streets and also legalized the public whipping of Indians who came too close to the local authorites. Gandhi being the peaceful man he was, protestede nonviolently at a festival. However, British troops appeared out of nowhere and started shooting every Indian on sight for eight to ten minutes. Around four-hundred were dead and fifteen-hundred injured.

Why Gandhi became so important was people often stop and think what would happen if he was a violent man. He would look like a tyrant and man who believes Niccolo Machiavelli's philosophy of "The ends justify the means". However, he was a sheer genius for using non-violence. Each time he protested peacefully. the British ended up looking worse each time while India was gaining national and even international support for their cause. His philosophies will always be remembered because they were effective beyond belief. Out of it finally came the independent nation of India.