On February 9, 1959 Martin Luther king junior II visited India . He considered his visit to India as a pilgrimage because he wanted to learn the Gandhian principles. After the Montgomery bus incident , blacks found their leader in Martin Luther King II . He got attracted to the ahimsa (non-violence) and he was very much interested in knowing about India and Gandhi's satyagraha. During his visit to India, he travel led to Delhi and Bombay and he witnessed the poverty condition prevailing in the cities and wondered ,yet, the country was peaceful. He saw the unity in diversity. He equated the India's caste problems with that of blacks discrimination in the US. After visiting Sabarmati ashram, he practised Gandhian philosophy at his own home which created problems . Unfortunately , he fell to the bullets of an assassin like his mentor, Gandhi.
There is no doubt , ahimsa is the supreme thing but that alone would not solve the today's problems. Here, I am not advocating eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. In today's scenario, it is our enemy who decides that which weapon should we use against him. There are some historians who disputed the claims that Gandhi got the independence. Look at the countries which got independence after India's independence how may of them followed the Gandhian philosophies? When Gandhi was able to convince the British to get independence why he failed in his attempt to prevent the partition . The British were generous had Germany's Hitler or Russia's s Stalin been in power the freedom struggle would have been crushed with iron fist. Moreover , the second world war had ravaged the Britishers . The British were unable to manage their empire as their administration machinery was in disarray. Slowly and steadily , their grip over the colonies got weakened and all these things attributed to India's independence.
We can study Gandhian philosophy at schools and colleges but not for real life.
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