ABSTRACT
In the 20th century, in the midst of its revolutions, its totalitarian societies of the Left and of the Right, India brought to the world the first ever revolution based on non-violence. Ahimsa was, in principle, created by a single man who, with his charisma, his heroism, perhaps also his saintliness opposed all forms of oppression be it racial, colonial, religious or ideological; and this despite his errors, often his blindness with regard to Hitler, the latter's national-socialism and the 'final solution' he decreed against the Jews. Gandhi used the power of non-violence to confront the forces of violence and contributed thus to the freedom of India from British rule twelve years before France gave Algeria its independence. India became independent less than a year before the State of Israel was created, an event that was not recognized by Gandhi's India.
