Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Pavnar
The correct answer is Panvar - After the failure of August's offer, Gandhi decided to initiate a limited satyagraha on an individual basis by a few selected individuals in every locality.
- The aims of launching individual satyagraha were:
- to show that nationalist patience was not due to weakness;
- to express people's feeling that they were not interested in the war they made no distinction between Nazism and the double autocracy that ruled India;
- to give another opportunity to the Government to accept Congress' demands peacefully.
- Vinoba Bhave was the first to offer the satyagraha and Nehru, the second.
- By May 1941, 25,000 people had been convicted for individual civil disobedience.
- In Pavnar the leader of the Individual Satyagraha movement, Acharya Vinoba Bhave started this movement.
- The individual Satyagraha movement was not to seek independence but to affirm the rights of speech.
- Vinayak Narahari Vinoba Bhave was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights and also best known for the Bhoodan movement.
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