History of Gandhi.

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Manos Mathew

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eb 7,2003

Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader, he started thinking in terms of dealing with British empire in India, he was quite into nonviolence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.It does not mean a attack to the will of the evil-doer, but it means putting ones whole soul against the will of the eniemie. He said in the movie "An eye for an eye makes everybody blind"summarizes Gandhi is view of violence. That statement is one of the greatest things ever said.

Gandhi did not believe in violence as a technique of achieving his goal of an independent India. He preached non-violent. Gandhi considered non-violent as requiring more courage and dedication then violence. Through the methods he used in his campaign for the Free India he proved the previous statement to be true. This is how the statement "one little half naked brown man could not bring down the the British Empire."

This absolutely is not true. He supported active noncooperation, organizing non-violent marches and other events to protestthe unfairness of the British occupation of India. In the salt marches

Gandhi protested the British monopoly on salt and the salt tax Indians had to pay. He tried to a provoke violent a response from the government. Such a response would show him to the world as a victim. In this symbolic event the Indian people suffered greatly to show the world the cruelty of the

authorities and the actions of the people of India to achieve independence.

Another showing of the British cruelty was the massacre, whereprotesters stood peacefully while the British soldiers gunned themdown. After this event the entire world supported Indian independence.

Non-violence was successful.

In the previous paragraphs, I have explained the power of Gandhi. He was just...