India: A Wounded Civilization - pg. 38

It was the genius of Gandhi: intuiting just where the Hindu virtues of quietism and religious self-cherishing could be converted into selfless action of overwhelming political force. Jagan allowing himself to be beaten, finding in the violence offered him a confirmation of his own virtue, saw himself as a satyagrahi, "fighting for the truth against the British." The stress was on the fight for the truth rather than the fight against the British. Jagan's was a holy war; he had a vision of his country cleansed and purified rather than a political vision of his country remade.