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The Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 was a satyagraha movement in the Kheda district of Gujarat in India organised by Mahatma Gandhi during the period of the British Raj. It was a major revolt in the Indian independence movement. It was the second Satyagraha movement, which was launched 7 days after the Ahmedabad mill strike.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, informally The Father of the Nation in India, undertook 18 fasts during India's freedom movement. His longest fasts lasted 21 days. Fasting was a tool used by Gandhi as part of his philosophy of Ahimsa (non-violence) as well as satyagraha. [1]
Bongal Kheda (trans. "Drive out the Bengalis) was a nationalistic movement in Assam, India, orchestrated by native Assamese job seekers which aimed to purge out non-native job competitors — primarily, middle-class Hindu Bengalis.
Day 3. Navagam to Matar (Kheda): 14 March 1930 Day 4. Matar(Kheda) to Nadiad: 15 March 1930 Day 5. Nadiad to Anand: 16 March 1930 Day 6. Rest Day in Anand: 17 March 1930 Day 7. Anand to Borsad: 18 March 1930 Day 8. Borsad to Kareli (Crossing the Mahi River): 19 March 1930 Day 9. Rest Day in Kareli: 20 March 1930 Day 10. Kareli to Ankhi: 21 ...
The movement that started in the early 1960s started again in different years throughout the sixties into the seventies and eighties leading to the even wider Assam movement. In the seventies it spread to other tribal northeastern parts of assam with significant Bengali population with similar condition likes Meghalaya and Tripura mostly under ...
Kheda was a large military station until 1830, when the cantonment was removed to Deesa. Brahmin established many villages in the Kheda District area, as did Jats and other groups. Kheda is also where Mahatma Gandhi launched, starting March 1919, the Satyagraha struggle against oppressive taxation by the British during a time of famine.
Satyagraha theory also influenced many other movements of nonviolence and civil resistance. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about Gandhi's influence on his developing ideas regarding the Civil Rights Movement in the United States: Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously.
The Bardoli Satyagraha, was a farmers' agitation and nationalist movement in India against the increased taxation of farmers by the colonial government. It demanded a cancellation of the 22% tax hike being levied in Bombay Presidency. The movement began on 12 June 1928.