There are deep-rooted differences between Indian groups, then as now. The idea of a modern Indian state, which is so easily taken for granted now, took a lot of building. In these sweep-of-history video games, there’s only one real political desire, and it’s whatever the player happens to want at that moment. He grew the Indian National Congress from a club for elite, well-educated, higher-case Hindus to an actual pan-Indian movement. Similarly, positioning the player as a country takes away the scope for Gandhi’s greatest achievement: the building of a national consciousness. Gandhi’s point was that with the freedom of India would come the lifting of the sins of colonisation, and so both countries could begin to heal. It is inherently dehumanising to see another race as lesser, and colonialism requires that belief for the sake of the colonists. saw massive economic benefits from colonialism, but Gandhi’s point here is that the damage to the soul of the people far outweighed the monetary gain. But Gandhi described passive resistance as an “all sided sword it can be used anyhow it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used.” There’s no doubt that the U.K. If something would benefit you, but would benefit your rivals more, Civilization would tell you not to do it. A game where you play a single country and try to make that country win is inherently nationalistic. This leads into the second way that games fail Gandhi. In a world so zero-sum, so fixated on a goal as the world of Civilization, Gandhi would have just been shot. But when history is presented as a game that only one player can win, ethics fall to the wayside.
In real life, Gandhi’s non-violence highlighted the immorality of British colonial rule. When dealing with the abstracts of countries, games just don’t worry as much about things like public opinion or social power, both of which are much less overt than military power and much less fun to represent. Not even Gandhi himself can escape the arms race. The game may tell you that you are a pacifist, but the systems do not allow you to leave your army neglected.
Various incarnations of the Civilization games try to disincentivise war against Gandhi by doubling war weariness or combat actions, but they always find that they cannot move the needle enough. The systems not only allow for warfare, but push the player towards it. The thing is that war is fundamental to these games, and more simply, war is fun in these games.
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