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Gandhi and Mass nationalism.(a) Which incident is considered a turning point in the life of Gandhi?(b) Name the works that influenced Gandhi?(c) How did Gandhi use satyagraha as a strategy in South Africa?(d) What do you know about the Champaran Satyagraha? |
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Answer» (a) On his journey from Durban to Pretoria, at the Pietermaritzburg railway station, he was physically thrown out of the first-class compartment in which he was travelling despite having a first class ticket. This incident is considered a turning point in the life of Gandhi. (b) Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You, Ruskin’s Unto This Last and Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience. (c) Gandhi developed satyagraha (truth-force) as a strategy, in which campaigners went on peaceful marches and presented themselves for arrest in protest against unjust laws. (d) The Champaran Satyagraha of 1916 was the first satyagraha movement inspired by Gandhi. It was a farmer’s uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar, India during the British colonial period. |
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