A general strike would work just as well. Riots and disturbance in this situation are not helpful. People get hurt, police and protesters, and things get damaged. So the state is violent? maybe, but in which case why copy it. So India did have violence, but for the most part Ghandi tried to do things differently, a worthwhile example in my book. There's a bellicosity in many posting here, and that includes their attitude to the Ukraine/Russian/NATO war.