analysis of ghandi's non violence

Did Mahatma Ghandi go against his own ideas of non-violence in a way to attain India’s self rule?
Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), he was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent and civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world contrast to that the following challenge if only did ghandi stick to non violence as a means of attaining India’s independence;
The role of India in World War 1. In April 1918, during the latter part of World War I, the Viceroy invited Gandhi to a War Conference in Delhi. Perhaps to show his support for the Empire and help his case for India's independence, Gandhi agreed to actively recruit Indians for the war effort. In contrast to the Zulu War of 1906 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he recruited volunteers for the Ambulance Corps, this time Gandhi attempted to recruit combatants. In a June 1918 leaflet entitled "Appeal for Enlistment", Gandhi wrote "To bring about such a state of things we should have the ability to defend ourselves, that is, the ability to bear arms and to use them...If we want to learn the use of arms with the greatest possible dispatch, it is our duty to enlist ourselves in the army. He did, however, stipulate in a letter to the Viceroy's private secretary that he "personally will not kill or injure anybody, friend or foe.
Gandhi's war recruitment campaign brought into question his consistency on nonviolence. Gandhi's private secretary noted that "The question of the consistency between his creed of 'Ahimsa' (nonviolence) and his recruiting campaign was raised not only then but has been discussed ever since."
In 1942, although still committed in his efforts to "launch a nonviolent movement", Gandhi clarified that the movement would not be stopped by individual acts of violence, saying that the "ordered anarchy" of "the present system of administration" was "worse than real anarchy. He called on all Congressmen and Indians to maintain discipline via ahimsa, and Karo ya maro ("Do or die") in the cause of ultimate freedom.

Though his ideas came to be known as non-violent a question still poses why he had to recruit Indians to go and fight for the British viceroy in World War 1. Still questions pose if non –violence where the only means used by Indians to fight and attain self rule.
To a greater extent self rule in India was attained through non-violence (gandhism) but it remains unrealistic to assert that the colonialists could grant independence to enslaved countries that they had interest in. Secondly non violence could not have persuaded the powers to grant independence to India, it was taste of time and climax of events like World War 1 & 2 that left these powers like Britain, France , Italy badly hit economically, politically (economic depression) that were unable to continue caring for colonies hence forced to grant independence to them.
This does not only apply to India but to African countries in general justifying why most of them got independence in post world war 11 period.

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