Gandhi’s Key Concepts of Passive Resistance, Non-violence, and Self-rul

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-2 October 1869 - 30 January 194 was the pre-prominent political and otherworldly pioneer of India during the Indian autonomy development. He is otherwise called Mahatma which implies â€Å"The Great Soul†. He was focused on pacifism, that there ought to be no violence.(1) He had three ideas to follow in his life for freedom of India: Satyagraha, Ahimsa and Swaraj. Gandhi presented the idea of â€Å"Satyagraha† that implies â€Å"passive resistance†. This latent obstruction additionally implies ‘soul force’ or ‘truth force’. The words satya implies truth and Agraha implies request, or holding solidly to (2). For Gandhi, Satyagraha is more probable a technique which is rehearsing in peacefulness. Gandhi says, â€Å"Truth (satya) infers love, and solidness (agraha) induces and in this manner fills in as an equivalent for power. I in this way started to call the Indian development Satyagraha, in other words, the Force which is conceived of Truth and Love or non-violence.† (3) Gandhi dedicated himself for Satyagraha so as to decolonize India from British without viciousness. In his book Home Rule he says,† Passive opposition is a strategy for making sure about rights by close to home torment, it is the converse of obstruction by arms. At the point when I will not do a thing that is repulsive to my inner voice, I use soul-force† (5). He conveyed this idea in Indian Independence Movement. For him, Satyagraha has three fundamentals meaning: â€Å"Satyagraha is a weapon of the solid; it concedes to no brutality under any condition at all; and it ever demands truth† (6). Additionally, he introduced a few principles for this â€Å"soul-force† to the people of India as a battle to follow and to arrive at the independency. For example, these are the standards that he needed his kin to obey without viole... ...ed States and South Africa. Works Cited (1) http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_Mahatma_Gandhi#ixzz17wt8byMT (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha (3) Satyagraha in South Africa, 1926 from Johnson, p. 73. (4) Gandhi, M.K. â€Å"Letter to Mr. â€â€â€  25 January 1920 (The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi vol. 19, p. 350) (5) http://www.mkgandhi.org/swarajya/coverpage.htm (6) Gandhi, M.K. â€Å"Some Rules of Satyagraha† Young India (Navajivan) 23 February 1930 (The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi vol. 48, p. 340) (7) http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/ahimsa.htm (8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaraj (9) http://www.mkgandhi.org/swarajya/coverpage.htm (10) http://www.swaraj.org/whatisswaraj.htm (12) King, Jr., Martin Luther (1998). Carson, Clayborne. ed. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.. pp. 23â€24 (13) http://www.sa-venues.com/nelson_mandela.htm