India’s Nonviolent Path to Independence

India won independence without firing a single shot at Britain, and that's exactly what made it unstoppable.

For over 60 years, millions of Indians refused to cooperate with the British Empire through boycotts,

sit ins, and mass protests led by Gandhi's nonviolent resistance. The British could

shoot protesters at Jallianwala Bagh, they could jail thousands, but they couldn't

govern a country where nobody would obey. By 1947, Britain was exhausted

from World War II and controlling 300 million people who simply said no became impossible.

India didn't need weapons to defeat the world's most powerful empire. They just stopped

playing along.