Nonviolence Gandhi Dbq

The 20th century, the most prominent examples of non-violence that induced a dramatic change in India in presence of vicious violence. One of the great souls Mahatma Gandhi’ who was born on October 2, 1869, in the Indian coastal city of Porbandar and sustained the most authentic life but was fully determined to give up his complete life for the good sake of India under British rule. From all of his experience getting married at young age, studying at London to thrown out of the train in South Africa just because of being colored and being arrested for getting uncontrolled over by the British he became to be known as a leader one by one to all the Indian community. His rules were always to fight against British but with nonviolence. What made

Gandhi said that, “I had just heard (that my fellow Indian protesters) had been sentenced to three months’ imprisonments with hard labor, and had been fined a heavy amount… If these men had committed a greater offense and I therefore asked the Magistrate to impose upon me the heaviest penalty… I well remembered that I… did not feel slightest hesitation in entering the prisoner’s box” (Document C). Gandhi devoted his adult life working for the rights of Indians living under British South Africa and was even imprisoned for 40 years for burning his ID passbook but never did violence to fight back and patiently spent 2338 days in

Madame Sarojini Naidu, a well-known Indian poet, said that, “Gandhi’s body is in jail but his soul is with you. India’s prestige is in your hands. You must not use any violence under any circumstances. You will be beaten but you must not resist; you must not even raise a hand to ward off blows” (Document B). Naidu held a protesters march in Dharasana to fight against the British for putting Gandhi in jail but nonviolence even if the British soldiers lash them any hard. There were 320 injured and two dead but no one even raised a hand because they wanted the British to lose with shame in front of