India provided legitimacy to terrorism, when during the freedom struggle, it acceded to Jinnah's and his likes' "terrorism" of threatening with a civil war, if India didn't agree for Partition. Alas ! Gandhiji and Nehru did not know how to deal with such terrorism, and the damage was done. Now we have two nations (Pakistan and Bangladesh) in the sub-continent borne out of terrorism, thus providing legitimacy to terrorism as a means to achieve one's means.
