While Ghandi's campaigns depended on the support of lawyers, traders, money-lenders, village officials and sub-contractors, his affectation of traditional dress and customs also gave him wide appeal to the impoverished masses whose support he won to Congress. His methods allowed Congress to gain popular support through a form of limited opposition to Britain but at the same time avoided the large-scale violence which could have threatened the vested interests of the Indian bourgeoisie. The Oxford Modern History of India summed up Ghandi's role as "in a sense the government's best friend at that time" and credited him with ensuring that "resentment did not flame into insurrection".
Russell
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