After coming back to India from South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi got involved in politics and immediately started to work on establishing “Hind Swaraj”. His ultimate goal was to establish a country without colonial rule, but he wanted to exclude violence from the independence movement. Instead of violent protests, he decided the best way for non-violence movement is starting a civil disobedience. In 1919, Mahatma Gandhi threatened the Viceroy of India, if the British were to pass the Rowlatt Act which allowed some political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial (Britannica), he would encourage Indians to start civil disobedience. This effort by Gandhi was the first step to Indian self-rule because by …show more content…
By doing that, Mahatma Gandhi tried to acknowledge the people that they should not be content with British ruling themselves but instead Indians should rule India. “My countrymen impute the evils of modern civilisation to the English people are bad, and not the civilisation they represent. My countrymen, therefore, believe that they should adopt modern civilisation and modern methods of violence to drive out the English. 'Hind Swaraj' has been written in order to show that they are following a suicidal policy, and that, if they would but revert to their own glorious civilisation, either the English would adopt the latter and become Indianised or find their occupation in India gone.” (Hind Swaraj 2/71) In this quotation, Mahatma Gandhi again highlights how British rule in India destroys the country and not only they do not represent the civilization, but they are also bad people who needs to be driven out of
When you are fight to get peace and fairness back to your government, does it involve nonviolent or violent acts to get what you want? When Gandhi came back to India after getting his law degree, Gandhi started a movement to bring peace and fairness back to their government. What made Gandhi’s nonviolent movement work? The reason Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked was because he didn’t believe in segregation, didn’t follow the British’s rules for Indians, went to jail for his movement, and he was determined.
Not only did the inequality and separation of the Indian society frustrate the citizens of India, but the imperialism Britain had upon them as well. In the early 20th century, Indian nationalists wanted to take a stand against the British rule and make India independent. The British created unfair laws that created a nationalist movement in India to regain their freedom. He believed that there should not be a Caste System because of one’s birth.
Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws, but in a peaceful form of political protests. Martin Luther King Jr. is the best example of a form of civil disobedience for the Civil rights Movement and many more through the late 1950s to the late 1960s. ‘’Martin Luther King Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protest, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience.’’
Throughout history, changes and movements have come in many different and unexpected forms. One form of change, disobedience, has continued to dominate the others in terms of effectiveness. Some of the greatest alterations made to the world have stemmed from some form of disobedience, such as the founding of the protestant church under Martin Luther and English Reformation. Often, the disobedience resulted from conflicting religious beliefs and interpretations of religious works. The history and formation of the United States of American provide an example of how disobedience shapes a nation. Disobedience of unjust laws, based on divine authority, laid the foundation of the American identity.
To begin with, one must find a peaceful approach to defeat discrimination. According to the text, on “from Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin”, Gandhi stated “My ambition is no less than to convert the British through non-violence and thus make them see the wrong they have done to India.” This evidence shows that Gandhi wants to be heard without using violence. Another example is on lines 17-24 which says “It has impoverished the dumb millions by a system of progressive exploitation…reduced politically to serfdom…sapped foundations of our culture…degraded us spiritually.” This evidence reveals that Gandhi is showing the effect the British is having a right now in India.
In conclusion, according to Gandhi, no one can possibly profit from the adoption of the English lifestyle. Furthermore, he then turns the typical European identification ideology against them, the British in particular, by mentioning reasons why modernity, or at least their desire for it, will ultimately lead to their own demise. Throughout the entire chapter, Gandhi explains to the reader how the technological, intellectual, and economic advancements of the West may seem like it has a positive impact at first glance, but instead is causing them great harm. For example, such advancements are creating a mindset of laziness, greed, and prejudice amongst the Europeans.
...s that included satyagraha, or hold to the truth. This prevented bloody revolts like those of Egypt.. For example, when the British placed a high tax on salt, Gandhi led 50,000 people on a 200 mile march to the sea to make their own salt. Gandhi was taken to prison many times. Gandhi was able to work with Jawaharalal Nehru, a young lawyer to receive reforms from the British. The British finally granted a constitution in 1935 which was a beginning step towards independence.
Gandhi’s speech on the eve of his historic march on March 11, 1930, was intended as his last speech to his followers. He highlighted what his followers should do in the event that he was arrested for his crimes. They were to continue to try to attain Swaraj (self-governance, i.e. the country rules itself) with non-violence and truth. Instead of violence, he wanted them to cause civil disobedience by breaking small laws, such as owning and selling illegal salts, as well as purchasing or making them. He wanted the employees of the Government (British rule in India) to stop working in protest, in an attempt to undermine it. Gandhi asked for the taxpayers, and all who were cooperating with the Government to stop cooperating, doing things such as not sending their children to public schools or keeping titles. He also asked for them to have self-confidence in the goal of Swaraj, and to become leaders, while stressing non-violence and truth. Gandhi also asked his followers to continue to follow local leaders; to ensure that leadership at all levels in India was not changed all at once. At the end of his speech Gandhi tells his followers that is they are always truthful and non-violent while trying to make India self-governing, they will always be victorious, even if
Gandhi said “only on condition of our demands being fully satisfied may you remain in India; and if you remain under those conditions, we shall learn several things from you and you will learn many from us” (Gandhi 410). Gandhi believed that it was possible to have peace between the two opposing cultures by being willing to learn and understand each other. He was one of the biggest influences on ending the brutal relationship between Indians and the English, but he did not believe that violence was necessary mean. Fanon argues “decolonization is the meeting of two forces, opposed to each other by their very nature, which in fact owe their originality to that sort of substantification which results from and is nourished by the situation of the colonies” (Fanon 424). He believes that the concept of colonies stands between these two different cultures being peaceful with each other. The idea of colonies means that one culture or nation is dominant to another which causes conflicts like those in India between the natives and
"All the leadership had spent their early years in England. They were influenced by British thought, British ideas, that is why our leaders were always telling the British "How can you do these things? They're against your own basic values.". We had no hatred, in fact it was the other way round - it was their values that made us revolt." -Aruna Asaf Ali, a leader of the Indian National Congress. (Masani, quoted in Wood, 32, 1989)
The decision to grant independence to India was not the logical culmination of errors in policy, neither was it as a consequence of a mass revolution forcing the British out of India, but rather, the decision was undertaken voluntarily. Patrick French argues that: “The British left India because they lost control over crucial areas of the administration, and lacked the will and the financial or military ability to recover that control”.
Gandhi was pissed and so he withdrew from public life once again. Just them in 1935 the British gave the Indians a great amount of rights but they were not happy.
India has not been a free independent country for a long time. It had been under British rule from 1858-1947. India finally became independent on August 15, 1947 (Trueman). Many people credit India’s independence to Mahatma Gandhi because of the great role he played in helping India in its freedom struggle. Along with Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammed Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru assisted in making India an independent country. Gandhi’s main principle in India’s freedom struggle was based on non violence, which he called satyagraha, which means holding onto the truth, truth force, or soul force (Bondurant). Along with nonviolence Gandhi believe in passive resistance and swaraj or self rule. Gandhi thought that being violent would only get a bad response from the British, however passive resistance pushed the British to do something which would make them look bad To accomplish swaraj or self rule (Bondurant), Gandhi believed India needed 3 vital ingredients. The first thing India needed was to unify Indians with different religions, especially Hindus and Muslims. Second, India needed to remove its...
The Quit India Movement was an important movement for independence although it did not gain Indian independence at that exact moment. It was a Segway into to the movement that changed Indian lives. Gandhi launched his “Quit India movement in August 1942 in Bombay. This speech was to (encourage) Indians to wage one last struggle for independence or die trying. he repudiates. Many claim that the Quit India speech by Gandhi was a Civil Disobedience Movement that was a huge launch for independence. Throughout Gandhi’s speech he requested the withdrawal of British rule from India through mass nonviolent protest asking desperately for the freedom for (of) the Indian People. Throughout Gandhi’s Passionate speech for freedom he proclaimed that “every Indian who desires there freedom and strives must be his own guide. And that “every Indian should consider there selves a free man. This speech was mostly described as an Inspirational and motivating speech that is to persuade Indians to seek their freedom. In Gandhi’s speech he had told Indians to follow non-violent civil disobedience. He told the multitudes and masses to act as an independent nation that would soon follow freedom for their people. This movement that Gandhi had given the call “Quit India” to the British and pressed Indians with his emotive slogan ‘Do or Die’. It was during this time that Gandhi made a statement: "We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery". His goal and aims throughout his speech was to encourage the British government to negotiate through determined, but passive resistance.
(Bio.com.) As a result, the British imprisoned more than 60,000 people. A year later, Gandhi accepted a truce and called off the civil disobedience movement. (“Gandhi, Mahatma”)