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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-2 October 1869 - 30 January 194 was the pre-famous political and profound pioneer of India during the Indian freedom 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 aloof opposition likewise implies ‘soul force’ or ‘truth force’. The words satya implies truth and Agraha implies request, or holding immovably to (2). For Gandhi, Satyagraha is more probable a technique which is rehearsing in peacefulness. Gandhi says, â€Å"Truth (satya) suggests love, and solidness (agraha) causes and in this way fills in as an equivalent word 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 gave himself for Satyagraha so as to decolonize India from British without brutality. In his book Home Rule he says,† Passive obstruction is a technique for making sure about rights by close to home anguish, it is the converse of opposition by arms. At the point when I won't do a thing that is offensive to my still, small voice, I use soul-force† (5). He sent 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 viciousness under any situation at all; and it ever demands truth† (6). Likewise, he introduced a few standards for this â€Å"soul-force† to the people of India as a crusade to follow and to arrive at the independency. For example, these are the principles 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