Players/Managed Independence Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
The Optimal Pressure Release Valve — Inner Temple Trained, Nonviolence Preserved Infrastructure
Inner Temple (called to bar 1891). 21 years in South Africa as beta test — served as Sergeant-Major supporting British military in Boer War and Zulu Rebellion, decorated with Queen's South Africa Medal. Developed Satyagraha in dialogue with Jan Smuts (Round Table member, League of Nations architect).
Nonviolence was optimal for the departing power. It preserved railways, ports, telecoms, and banking infrastructure intact for transfer. Compare to Algeria (FLN) or Vietnam (Viet Minh) where real wars destroyed colonial extraction infrastructure. Theosophical Society network (Annie Besant = Theosophist president AND Indian National Congress president 1917) operated on both sides of the colonial divide.
Assassinated January 30, 1948 — after Partition was locked in. Removed the one figure who could potentially reverse the India-Pakistan fracture or interfere with the new antagonistic states.
Also in Managed Independence