INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ahmedabad Mill Strike marks Mahatma Gandhi’s first fast unto death. In March 1918, under the leadership of Gandhi, there was a strike in the cotton mills in Ahmedabad. It was at this juncture that Gandhi began the ‘first’ of his seventeen ‘fasts unto death’ on 15 March, 1918. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-2: -c In the Ahmedabad strike Mahatma Gandhi made his first use of hunger strike as a weapon. In 1918 Mahatma Gandhi intervened in a dispute between the workers and mill-owners of Ahmedabad. He advised the workers to go on strike and to demand a 35 per cent increase in wages.

Detailed explanation-3: -On September 16, 1932, in his cell at Yerwada Jail in Pune, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anusuya Behn approached Gandhi, whom the mill owners and workers respected, and asked him to intervene and help resolve the impasse between the workers and the employers. Despite the fact that Gandhi was Ambalal’s friend, he took up the workers’ cause.