Re: &quot;terrorists&quot; and India at the time of independence<p>&gt; That word didn&#x27;t exist then, but that&#x27;s absolutely what we would call them today<p>It had actually existed for about a century and half before that, and had been used in the modern sense (including referring to non-state and subnational actors, often directing violence against a state, rather than the original use referring to terrorism strictly in the sense of a top-down means of state control originating with the French Revolution&#x27;s Reign of Terror and its architects, the original &quot;terrorists&quot;) for about 70-80 years prior to Indian independence.