Those who have lived through India's Nehru era will be reminded of much....

Gandhiji had set the principle aside over the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir in October 1947, and over Goa Nehru said in 1955 that under the circumstances no government could be pledged to non-violence. It was not lost on Indians that colonial powers which had conquered the world by violence exhorted their former subjects to abjure violence; and in 1946, British commanders confined their troops to barracks while mass slaughter occurred on the streets of the then Calcutta and spread to other parts of India.