"Beyond a Boundary" & "Hindi Swaraj"

C.L.R. James' realization that all they have learned in their life leading up to this point has been in the ideal of British intelligence, is very true in the sense that since the British controlled the education and all the activities held in Trinidad at the time, they had influence over what the youth will perceive as normal. The thought that whoever is the conqueror/imperialist has the ultimate influence on the people of a certain area makes one realize that they may have been "brain-washed" their whole life as they were only taught through the lenses of the victors. The same idea applies to history books and stories in general, as it is the victors who usually write the books to tell the heroic tales of themselves while the losers are usually quietly trying to recuperate from their loss. James' perspective on how organized sports like cricket and soccer requires everyone on the team to give up their own individualistic ideals in order to cooperate together for the greater good is similar to how everyone agrees to get along between the colonies and the colonizers in order to reach a goal that the colonizer wants, though the colonies might not realize that they are cooperating through oppression of their own individual selves. This makes me think of a lot of team based activities that I have done in schools, such as group projects or marching band/PE sports, and how in order to reach uniformity, everyone must cooperate and give up their own ideals of what the team should do and instead conform to the rule's standards to win. 

From Gandhi's perspective on the Indian people, it is clearly seen that he believes that the whole country can be relieved of this oppression by all cooperating together and forcing out the Western/British influences that it has "poisoned" India with. Through his eyes, overthrowing the British and forcing them out of India will be the ultimate solution to allow for India to progress faster in the world without being hindered by the oppressive forces of the British powers. This need for liberation from the British reminds me of how powerful imperialistic nations are in their reach of influence on those that they colonize because they can control the beliefs that the colonies hold without having much resistance by them because in their experience, colonial uprising is very rare and in a country so big, they do not really see the whole country being able to unify as one to kick out the British. The success that Gandhi later on puts up with shows just how strong a people can be in order to rebel against the oppressors, that they can create the outcome that they want even if history has not ruled in favor of their doing so.