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Where did the leader of the Individual Satyagraha movement, Acharya Vinoba Bhave start this movement?1. Nashik2. Poona3. Pavnar4. Nagpur5. None of the Above/ More than one of Above

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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