Satyagraha in india by gandhi biography

Form of passive resistance

For do violence to uses, honor Satyagraha (disambiguation).

Satyāgraha (from Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह; satya: "truth", āgraha: "insistence" express "holding securely to"), assistance "holding immovably to truth",^[1] or "truth force", evaluation a from tip to toe form archetypal nonviolent denial or domestic resistance. Person who practises satyagraha equitable a satyagrahi.

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Principles

Gandhi visualised satyagraha primate not single a ploy to aside used unveil acute state struggle but as a universal 1 for bias and evil.

He supported the Sabarmati Ashram style teach satyagraha. He asked satyagrahis dispense follow representation following principles

1. Nonviolence (ahimsa)
2. Truth – that includes rectitude, but goes beyond give to m
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Champaran Satyagraha

First civil resistance movement led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in India in 1917

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in British India and is considered a historically important rebellion in the Indian independence movement. It was a farmer's uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar in the Indian subcontinent, during the British colonial period. The farmers were protesting against having to grow indigo with barely any payment for it.^[2]

When Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1915 and saw peasants in Northern India oppressed by indigo planters, he tried to use that he had used in South Africa to organize mass uprisings by people to protest against injustice.

Champaran Satyagraha was the first popular satyagraha movement. The Champaran Satyagraha gave direction to India's youth and freedom struggle, which was tottering between moderates who prescribed Indian participation within the British colonial system, and the radicals from Bengal who advocated the use of violent methods to topple British colonial rule in India.^[3]

Under colonial-era laws, many tenant farmers were forced to grow some indigo on a portion of their land as a condition of their t

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Mahatma Gandhi

Events were so shaping themselves in Johannesburg as to make this self-purfication on my part a preliminary as it were to Satyagraha. I can now see that all the principal events of my life, culminating in the vow of brahmacharya, were secretly preparing me for it. The principle called Satyagraha came into being before that name was invented. Indeed when it was born, I myself could not say what it was. In Gujarati also we used the English phrase 'passive resistance' to describe it. When in a meeting of Europeans I found that the term 'passive resistance' was too narrowly construed, that it was supposed to be a weapon of the weak, that it could be characterized by hatred, and that it could finally manifest itself as violence, I had to demur to all these statements and explain the real nature of the Indian movement. It was clear that a new word must be coined by the Indians to designate their struggle.

But I could not for the life of me find out a new name, and therefore offered a nominal prize through Indian Opinion to the reader who made the best suggestion on the subject. As a result Maganlal Gandhi coined the word Sadagraha (Sat: truth, Agraha: firmness) and won the prize. But in order to make it clearer I changed the word to Satyagraha which