Gandhi is taught in Western schools for a reason. Not because nonviolent resistance is the only thing that works. Because it is the only thing the system is comfortable including in its curriculum. Teach Gandhi. Don't teach the Mau Mau. Don't teach the FLN. Don't teach the Việt Minh. Don't teach the conditions that made those movements inevitable, the specific brutalities that nonviolent petition had already failed to address for decades before people concluded that petitioning had a ceiling. The lesson they want you to take from Gandhi is: change comes from asking politely with great moral dignity. The lesson they don't want you to take from the full history is: the British left India because the empire was no longer sustainable, economically or militarily, after the Second World War, and the independence movements across the empire made continued colonial control more expensive than it was worth. Gandhi mattered. Gandhi was extraordinary. He was also operating within a specific set of historical conditions that made nonviolent resistance viable in ways it is not always viable. The system teaches you the tactic without the conditions. So you apply the tactic in conditions where it was never going to be enough. And then it tells you that you failed because you didn't have Gandhi's moral purity.