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[38] [58] Gandhi sat in the train station, shivering all night and pondering if he should return to India or protest for his rights. [58] Gandhi chose to protest and was allowed to board the train the next day. [59] In another incident, the magistrate of a Durban court ordered Gandhi to remove his turban, which he refused to do. [38]
The Salt Satyagraha campaign was based upon Gandhi's principles of non-violent protest called satyagraha, which he loosely translated as "truth-force". [6] Literally, it is formed from the Sanskrit words satya, "truth", and agraha, "insistence". In early 1920 the Indian National Congress chose satyagraha as their main tactic for winning Indian ...
Gandhi meeting President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office on 28 March 1966. When Gandhi came to power in 1966, Lyndon Johnson was the US president. At the time, India was reliant on the US for food aid. Gandhi resented the US policy of food aid being used as a tool to force India to adopt policies favoured by the US.
Maganlal Gandhi, grandson of an uncle of Mahatma Gandhi, came up with the word "Sadagraha" and won the prize. Subsequently, to make it clearer, Gandhi changed it to Satyagraha. "Satyagraha" is a tatpuruṣa compound of the Sanskrit words satya (meaning "truth") and āgraha ("polite insistence", or "holding firmly to"). Satya is derived from the ...
Gandhi saw himself a disciple of Tolstoy, for they agreed regarding opposition to state authority and colonialism; both hated violence and preached non-resistance. However, they differed sharply on political strategy. Gandhi called for political involvement; he was a nationalist and was prepared to use nonviolent force.
In August 1942, Indian politician and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi, was a central figure to the Quit India campaign. [3] He was the leader of the Indian National Congress, [4] and the Quit India campaign was a national protest movement based on "satyagraha" (truthful request) [1] that called for an end to British colonial rule in India and the establishment of Indian sovereignty, [5 ...
Gandhi's call was for a nationwide protest against the Rowlatt Act. In promoting "self-reliance," his planning of the non-cooperation movement included persuading all Indians to withdraw their labour from any activity that "sustained the British government and also economy in India," [ 7 ] including British industries and educational institutions.
The All India Congress Committee launched a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called "An Orderly British Withdrawal" from India. Even though it was at war, Britain was prepared to act. Almost the entire leadership of the Indian National Congress was imprisoned without trial within hours of Gandhi's speech. Most spent the rest of the war in ...