WORLD HISTORY

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WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

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____ Certainly, although on the one hand civil disobedience authorizes disobedience to the unjust or immoral laws of a state that is sought to be overthrown, it requires a docile surrender and willingness to receive the punishment for disobedience and, therefore, an enthusiastic acceptance of prison discipline and its hardships ____ Who is the author of this passage?
A
Fidel Castro
B
Ho Chi Minh
C
Mahatma Gandhi
D
Otto von Bismarck
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The modern concept of civil disobedience was most clearly formulated by Mahatma Gandhi. Drawing from Eastern and Western thought, Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, which emphasizes nonviolent resistance to evil.

Detailed explanation-2: -3. The government brutally repressed by attacking and arresting peaceful satyagrahis and beating women and children and Gandhiji wanted the Civil Disobedience Movement to be non-violent and peaceful. Since the movement turned violent, and many people were killed, Gandhiji called it off.

Detailed explanation-3: -(i) The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930. He wanted to oppose the colonial rule by breaking laws framed by it. This movement started with the Salt Satygraha (Dandi March) organised by Mahatma Gandhi. He began walking on 12 March 1930 from his Sabarmati Ashram.

Detailed explanation-4: -A version was taken up by the author Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience, and later by Gandhi in his doctrine of Satyagraha. Gandhi’s Satyagraha was partially influenced and inspired by Shelley’s nonviolence in protest and political action.

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