I think that the religious history of India has influenced India's tradition f non-violence because they were very opposed to any form of violence. We can even see this in the fact that Hindus were vegetarians because they did not want to kill animals (a form of violence). Mohandas Gandhi also played a very important role in the outcome of India's non-violence. During Gandhi's explorations, he received a lot of embarrassment and insults were thrown at him constantly. These insults lead Gandhi to realize that he would not accept social injustice as part of society in South Africa. Mohandas Gandhi also worked for months to get the Natal Legislative Assembly to allow Indian's to vote; Gandhi fought for their independence. We can also see that Gandhi was opposed to violence because when he was assaulted in Durban in 1897, Gandhi refused to let the people who assaulted him get prosecuted. Gandhi was not interested in money, or violence against other regions, but rather, what he thought was right. In 1924, Gandhi fasted for three weeks in order to get people to turn against violence. Gandhi was able to defeat many peoples and get tons of people in jail without using violence to defeat them. Gandhi instilled non-violence into his people, and one of the three major revolutions of the 20th century that he made was of violence. Gandhi wrote a book as well, called Hind Swaraj, part of which was about the rejection of violence.
All of Mohandas Gandhi's work for the installation of non-violence in ancient India are why India is generally opposed to violence. If it hadn't been for Gandhi's ideals on violence, I don't think that India would at all be the same place it is today.
Sources: http://www.search.eb.com.ezproxy.sfpl.org/eb/article-22632
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