The two major forces defining politics in India have been freedom movement and the cultural modernisation. The freedom movement efforts led to multiple approaches, often independent of each other, often localised, until INC under MK Gandhi were able to build a nationwide meffort which is lawful, assimiliative and paradoxically defiant.
Meanwhile, at cultural level, the interaction with European intellectual heritage and the English language policy was leading to cultural modernisation and religious emancipation of unprecedented degree. These unregulated forces found a meaningful metaphor in M K Gandhi and even accorded a Mahatma status to him. A lawyer cum 'satyagrahi' became the helmsman for Indian freedom.
Both these major forces are not a threat to China in any manner. Both infact would seek a sympathetic chord.
The Indian measures are purely defensive and to contain expansionist China. The Tibet transgression and beyond have evoked determined Indian responses, which may continue to harden further.
