India could have been free in 1920 but for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He actively allowed himself to be planted in the Indian National Congress by the British as their stooge to sabotage the freedom struggle of India!
In the first decade of the 20th century the British got scared of the revolutionary armed struggle in India which was propagated by the trio of Aurobindo Tilak and Savarkar. The British became ruthless with the revolutionaries. Aurobindo left politics for some mysterious reasons, Tilak died and Savarkar was imprisoned and tortured.
The British then allowed Gandhi to replace the Aurobindo, Tilak and Savarkar model of the revolutionary armed struggle with the moronic Satyagraha and the pathetic Ahimsa. The British had their last laugh.
After the revolt of 1857 the British could never believe on the Indians for their safety. The World War I provided our best opportunity to snatch our freedom from the British through an intense armed struggle across the country. At that time the British were a disorganized lot. But Gandhi slept during the opportunity with his misplaced theory of morality and Ahimsa! Though Gandhi came back to India from South Africa in 1915 he was actively promoting his pathetic philosophy of non violence in the Indian freedom struggle through the Hind Swaraj since 1909. The British just simply utilized him!
Mr. Gandhi transformed the Indian revolutionary armed struggle into a helpless, powerless, petition dependent, procession oriented and slogan shouting Satyagraha and we missed the bus of freedom!
The British did not leave India in 1947 due to the Satyagraha and Ahimsa of Gandhi. The 1942 Quit India Movement of Gandhi was suppressed comfortably. There was no threat whatsoever from Gandhi for the British in 1946-47. No new large scale mass movement was there at that time.
Actually the BritIsh were bled white in the World War II. The Naval Revolt of 1946 and the return of a large number of ex-INA personnel with their anger against the British Government scared the British about the possibility of a mutiny in the Indian Army which could have been beyond their capacity to contain. There was information about a revolt in the Indian Police Force also. The British were compelled to leave India in 1947, one year before the originally decided date.
The title of Father of the Nation was imposed on the Gandhi by the Congress. Gandhi never deserved the title!
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