USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Gandhi adopted the term “civil disobedience” to describe his strategy of non-violently refusing to cooperate with injustice, but he preferred the Sanskrit word satyagraha (devotion to truth).

Detailed explanation-2: -Explain to students that Gandhi called the use of nonviolence to fight injustice ‘satyagraha, ’ which means ‘truth-force’ or ‘love-force. ‘ It can also be called nonviolent direct action.

Detailed explanation-3: -Referring to the concept of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi said, “I shall consider it (civil disobedience) to be a public, non-violent and conscientious act contrary to law, usually done with the intent to bring about a change in the policies or laws of the government.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gandhi organized Indian resistance, fought anti-Indian legislation in the courts and led large protests against the colonial government. Along the way, he developed a public persona and a philosophy of truth-focused, non-violent non-cooperation he called Satyagraha.

Detailed explanation-5: -Champaran Satyagraha was the first civil disobedience movement which was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917. It was done to protest against the injustice meted out to tenant farmers in Champaran district of Bihar. During British rule, many tenant farmers were forced to grow indigo on some part of their land.