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Answers to Question Answers one might render are the lack of understanding on the parts of the masses of--or their lack of commitment to--the principled discipline of non-violence, the perception by the Hindus of the grand taking from India of Pakistan by the Muslims, and both sides’ perception of each other as dividing and displacing their respective communities. Other answers are the lack of alternative, modern, peaceful accommodating values and the breakdown, with some modernity, of the traditional village harmonious values of the common ownership of land and of the jajmani system of reciprocal exchange of services. Yet other answers are the deepening, through the divide and rule practices of the British, of the schism, politicized with Partition, between Hindus and Muslims, and the ease of committing violence against unarmed people as opposed to against, say, British soldiers. (The answers obviously operate combinedly.) If you have other answers to this question, or other questions on the subject of Gandhi (or answers to these latter questions), or comments on this website or on Gandhi, please go to the Feedback page in this website and send me an e-mail. I will post select submissions periodically on this website. For teachers, there is a lesson plan on this question, and on Gandhi more generally, on the Lesson Plan page in this website. |
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