[Assam] Armed Revolution is an Outdated Concept

[UTTAM BORTHAKUR]

 Ashoka, the great, established an empire, with the use of his swords.
For the court intellectuals, teachers of history, netters,  it was an
in-fashion concept at that time.
I mean, armed usurpation and suppression.

However, the vanquished were restive. They plotted armed rebellion.

Some court jesters suggested that these rebellions should be quelled by
bombing their lands.
Those were mostly in the areas where Maoists are now plotting their revolts
and executing them.

But, Ashoka, the great, (he's great not for nothing), was not an idiot, like
those court-jesters, teachers, intellectuals.
So, he devised a novel concept. He proselytized himself to the popular i.e.
the fashionable religion of that time.
Buddhism. It was the religion of the people. It taught of Ahimsa.
He successfully propagated it; the idea of armed rebellion vanished in all
nook and crannies.

Ashoka could consolidate his empire in peace!
Alas! Concepts, often, are vested interest.

***** Elizabeth too knew the fashion of the day!