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The facts separated from fiction. A moment to challenge the existing paradigms. Historically speaking, political scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom (CW) held in some parts that Gandhi’s movement was a success or that it was emulated in other parts of the world. CW holds that Non-violence was successful in Bharat, South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement of the USA. Is there any truth to this “story”. According to realist pragmatist investigative historians, much of this “story” is fiction created to create a personality cult of mediocre politicians who had failed to achieve any results.

On the Transfer of Power from Britain to India – from ‘The Freedom Struggle and the Dravidian Movement‘ by P.Ramamurti, Orient Longman, 1987

“We have seen that no non-violent struggle conducted in the course of the freedom struggle had achieved its objective. In 1921, the non-cooperation movement was withdrawn before it was started by Mohandas Gandhi. In 1930 the Civil Disobedience Movement was withdrawn without achieving its limited objective. In 1932, the Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended at Gandhi’s instance and was never revived. In 1941 individual satyagraha for the right of freedom of speech ended in six months without achieving its aim. The 1942 countrywide struggle for freedom was never started by Gandhi.”

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