It does not give me any pride. Just exposes our hypocrisy. If nonviolence is our ethos, then should we not be disbanding our army and police force entirely? Hate, anger, rage these are all valid expressions, antibodies produced in response to a threatening environment. If we were to remove the words "anger, hate, rage, despair" and such from any language, the language itself would be crippled and become redundant. So what of humans. What Gandhi was asking of Hindus was to de-humanize, a zombie which is not able to respond to its environment in all its range.
Hindu pride was in full flow then. The masses responded to Tilak and Gandhi because it was a Hindu resurgence. All the Hindu kingdoms came in without much drama anyway, they were not inspired by Gandhi. There was a coming together of the Hindu mind.
We would have been a Hindu land then. Most would have converted to Hinduism.