In Your Opinion, Do You Think Gandhi Has Failed In His Life Work Which Is To Promote Non-Violence And Reuniting The People Of India?

 

  Based from the movie Ghandi, I would conclude that Mahatma Ghandi, the national hero for India's dependency had failed  to promote non violence and reuniting the people of India. There are several reasons why he failed to achieve his goal in the end.

  First of all, Ghandi failed to promote his non violence act towards the British. He may have succeeded towards the Indian at the early stage but throughout his non violence campaign, he failed to promote such act to the British. We can see in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, India where the British under the command of General Reginald Dyer sent his troops to shoot those who involved in unauthorized meetings and caused many innocent civilian including women and children to lose their lives. Thus showing Ghandi's failure to promote his non violence act.

  Secondly, he failed to promote his non violence act on the people of India after India's independence because of the tension between the Indian Muslim and the Indian Hindus. This is due to the fact that not all people in India has Ghandi's point of view and it is because of religion divides its people apart. Ghandi tried to persuade Muhammad Ali Jinnah by letting him to be the first Prime Minister of India and allow Muslims to take higher command of the seats of managing India. Even so, the Indian Hindus will disagree and this will cause civil war among the Indian people. In the end, the Indian Muslims migrate to the Muslim majority and form their own country that is Pakistan.

  Thirdly, Ghandi also failed to stop the migration and the fights between Muslim and Hindus during the formation of Pakistan. Ghandi's so called non violent act can do nothing to stop this matter. People are desperate and religion issues cannot be overcome by non violence act and thus the only solution for this is by dividing the nation itself.  Many Indians died during the migration due to disease, fighting and hunger. Many were left homeless and Ghandi's non violent act cannot even help to overcome such situations for the people of India. And in the end it spilt the Indians into continents that is Pakistan and India. Thus showing Ghandi's unsuccessful attempt to reunite the people of India.

  Fourthly or lastly, Ghandi's vision that is to unite the people of India fails up to this very day. In the last day he lives he stated that he wanted to pay a visit on Pakistan just as stated in the movie in 03:00:04, thus this act creates anger among dissidents on both sides which will soon leads to his assassination and his death.  Nowadays Pakistan and India continued to improve their military power on each others borders. Tension among those two countries rises up when Pakistan has developed nuclear power plant. Thus upsetting the balance between India and Pakistan up to now.

 

 Consequently, Ghandi did managed to liberate India from British Imperial rule. However he failed his mission to promote non violence act and reuniting the people of India due to inescapable circumstances that even he himself cannot overcome.