For now, let's turn to the most famous non-violent decolonization, or supposedly so anyway, that of India. So the story begins, more or less, in 1885 with the founding of the Indian National Congress. Congress party leaders and other nationalists in India were usually from the elite classes. Initially, they didn't even demand independence from Britain. But they were interested in creating a modern Indian nation rather than a return to some ancient pre-colonial form, possibly because India was, and is, hugely diverse, and really only unified into a single state when under imperial rule by one group or another, whether the Mauryans, the Guptas, the Mughals, or the British. Okay, let's go to the Thought Bubble. The best-known Indian nationalist, Mohandas K. Gandhi, was a fascinating character.