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title: Indias poor treatment of Buddhism
date: "2002-09-29T12:00:00Z"
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wp_id: 1128
description: I question the narrative of India’s peaceful history by looking at its poor treatment of Buddhism. I argue that without Gandhi or the British government, we might have been just as prone to war as others.
keywords: [india, buddhism, pacifism, mahatma gandhi, religious conflict, indian history]
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We keep hearing about India's and Hindu's peaceful history. But if [India's poor treatment of Buddhism](http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,800290,00.html) is anything to go by, we're no better than any others. Guess we were lucky to have Gandhi and a non-overthrowable British Government. Otherwise, we'd have gone to war as well.