What Chanakya did in 326 BC, Gandhi did in 1920 - converted resistance to a mass movement.
In both cases, the power was devoid of authority. It came from a moral source.
In both cases, the colonisers were completely removed from the land.
Can you imagine what would have happened if we had a Chanakya in 712 AD?
I have never been very respectful of Gandhi, but can also not disregard the massive difference his strategy made - of converting politics from a specialist subject to a mass movement.
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