Sarvodaya means ‘progress of all’ or ‘Universal uplift’. Gandhi started this Sarvodaya movement, and people consider it an addition to his efforts in his non-violence movement. The main objective of this event was to establish a new India based on non-violence and love.
The major techniques of Satyagraha are non-cooperation, civil disobedience, fasting and strike.
Gandhi advocated the concept of swadeshi in the spirit of universal love and service. A votary of swadeshi will give preference to local products even if they are of inferior grade or dearer in price than things manufactured elsewhere and try to remedy the defects of local manufacturers.
Mahatma GandhiHind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule / Author Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Gandhiji visited Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against oppressive .
Who gave the title Mahatma?Rabindranath TagoreTo end the confusion created by the answer key of an exam held by a Rajkot local body, the Gujarat High Court today declared that it was Rabindranath Tagore who gave the title of ‘Mahatma’ to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
In more than half a century, many around the globe drew inspiration from Gandhi’s method of Satyagraha. Gandhian non-violence in its global sense remains exemplary as a political action and is transferable as a human experience from one tradition of thought to another.
The features of Satyagraha are love and self-suffering, fearlessness and self-purification, principledness and renunciation, and the faith and determination that comes from it. Conquering hatred with love, anger with humility, selfishness with sacrifice means active non-violence.
Champaran SatyagrahaWhen Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1915 and saw peasants in Northern India oppressed by Indigo planters, he tried to use the same methods that he had used in South Africa to organise mass uprisings by people to protest against injustice. Champaran Satyagraha was the first popular satyagraha movement.
Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow.
