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The Movement That Made India Believe It Could Win, Then Gandhi Stopped It

In August 1920, Gandhi asked a whole nation to stop cooperating with its rulers, and for the first time since 1857, India answered as one. Then a mob in a UP village burned 22 policemen alive, and Gandhi pulled the plug on his own movement.

The two powers that almost stopped the British: Mysore's rockets and the Maratha confederacy

Mysore had war rockets and French-trained infantry; the Marathas had the subcontinent's last indigenous empire. Seven wars later, both were gone, and the Subsidiary Alliance did the rest quietly.