Mahatma Gandhi Dbq Essay

Gandhi convinced the Indians that he could get them their independence. They would get their independence long as they didn't cooperate. Gandhi used a couple of lines from the Declaration of Independence that in other words meant, “if a law is unjust, then it is not a law.” Gandhi also told his people that in order to pretext they had to be willing to get jail time. Gandhi's methods worked because both his people and him were uncooperative. On document A, Gandhi himself writes a letter to the governor, in a friendly way stating that he will break the law and is going to break it if they do not give him what he wants. Document B shows that protesters were actually willing to be arrested and get jail time. Not only getting arrested and

To prove my statement, they were so willing to accept jail time that there wasn't nearly enough cells for the Indians to fit in. There was 500,000 and only 1 officer for about every 50,000 Indians so didn't cooperate with the law of justice.
Gandhi spent over 8 years of his life in prison. There he did suffer a lot because he was vegetarian and they would serve him meat. But Gandhi stool to his root and did not eat any meat at all. So much that he came out so skinny and fragile. Gandhi’s methods worked because his followers were capable of seeing everyone as their friend, even their enemies were their friends. To prove my statement, Gandhi not only called his enemies his friends on document A but he also claimed his enemy as his friends on document D as well. It was the imperialist rulers who caused the British and all the other people to see them, the British, themselves as the bad people and killers. Gandhi and his people never fought back once, the only single thing they did was not cooperate. And the British themselves did them the favor and got the people to turn against them by attacking and killing some innocent people and giving them jail