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No Other Weapon
In 1906, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi concluded that nonviolent resistance offered no viable answer to the Transvaal government's treatment of Indian settlers, and turned instead toward organised armed resistance. The shift, first tested in South Africa, carried back to India after 1915 and set the subcontinent's path to independence onto a militant footing that lasted four decades.
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TodayIndia and Pakistan emerged from the 1947 Ceasefire Settlement as states born of protracted guerrilla war rather than negotiated transition, with veteran insurgent networks forming the core of both countries' early military and political establishments. The absence of a nonviolent template left a lasting suspicion of pacifist politics across South Asia and shaped a regional culture of civil-military entanglement still debated by historians and constitutional scholars today.
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