more radical approach towards political independence proposed by leaders such as the Lal‚ Bal‚ Pal‚ Aurobindo Ghosh and V. O. Chidambaram Pillai. The last stages of the freedom struggle from the 1920s onwards saw Congress adopt Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ’s policy of nonviolence and civil resistance‚ Muhammad Ali Jinnah ’s constitutional struggle for the rights of minorities in India‚ and several other campaigns. Revolutionaries such as Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh preached armed revolution
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Khadi – the word conjures up images of Mahatma Gandhi and the Swadeshi movement he led‚ with khadi being its icon. For a long time‚ we have associated khadi with freedom struggle and politics. Khadi is a term used for fabrics that are hand-spun and handwoven. Most of the production of it is from cotton fiber. However‚ contrary to popular belief‚ khadi is also manufactured from silk and wool‚ known as khadi silk or woolen khadi respectively. The fabric is known for its rugged texture‚ comfortable
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Non-violence Strategies in Israel/Palestine As the world is familiar with the on-going conflict between Israel and Palestine‚ and we are aware that the uproar between these two nations had been in the most extreme form. Judaism and Islam are two of the world’s oldest and largest monotheistic religions. These religions share a variety of customs‚ beliefs‚ and practices. At the same time‚ there are enough differences that make these two clash. Although there are many conflicts going on in this
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In his last year‚ unhappy at the partition of India‚ Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims‚ Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan. He was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse who thought Gandhi was too sympathetic to India’s Muslims. 30 January is observed as Martyrs’ Day in India. The honorific Mahatma ("Great Soul") was applied to him by 1914.[7] In India he was also called Bapu ("Father"). He is known in India as the Father of the Nation;[8] his
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Harindranath was a poet‚ dramatist‚ and actor. Career Indian Freedom Fighter Sarojini Naidu (extreme right) with Mahatma Gandhi during Salt Satyagraha‚ 1930 Sarojini Naidu joined the Indian national movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905. She came into contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale‚ Rabindranath Tagore‚ Muhammad Ali Jinnah‚ Annie Besant‚ C. P. Ramaswami Iyer‚ Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.[6] During 1915-1918‚ she traveled to different regions in India delivering lectures on social
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ceiling was very rigid because of this! The awakening it brought in his life shook him and the rest of course is history. It is all so well depicted in Richard Attenborough famous film. This in itself shook the conscience of the world. The changes that Gandhi Ji went through are well known and I will not delve further into the changes he brought in his perception and his journey back to his roots. His return to India was his tryst with destiny for he had to re-learn his own perceptions and to find his
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1914 Start of World War One (WW1) Indian soldiers fight for British 1915 Mohandas Gandhi returns from South Africa 1916 Jinnah becomes President of AIML INC and AIML united against British 1917 Chelmsford-Montague Reforms promised limited representative democracy Split between AIML and INC 1919 India Act‚ Rowlatt Satyagraha beginning of mass politics 1920-22 Non-cooperation-Khilafat Movement under Gandhi; introduction of Satyagrapha policy and non-violence; Hindu-Muslim unity; ended because
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The cruel treatment and salt monopoly inspired Gandhi to unify the people in “campaign of satyagraha‚ or mass civil disobedience.” Salt is a vital part of Indian diet recognized when the Salt Acts were enacted which put a “monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt”. [1] Gandhi led nonviolent demonstrations as the people defied British policy by making salt from seawater. The British would soon respond by brutally
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declaration started a boycott of the buses and led to change. Another leading figure in civil disobedience was Mahatma Gandhi. He was an Indian lawyer in South Africa in a time when the British and Boers grossly mistreated Indians. He disagreed with the laws of South Africa‚ which included poll taxes for Indians and not recognizing Hindu marriages. In response‚ he started a campaign‚ Satyagraha‚ which means truth and firmness. He spoke out against the actions of the British and Boers and convinced the Indian
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that guards would force feed the person but in this case Gandhi had published enough papers‚ and hit the headlines of so many newspapers and news agencies around the world that had the British government done anything to Gandhi‚ the world would outrage and Britain would lose much more political cloud and standing in the world as literally the British would have to release him before he died due to starvation or any kind of diseases and Gandhi has won this time and again as he showed his willingness
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