Class 6

Gopal Krishna GokhaleGopal Krishna Gokhale: The liberal nationalist regarded by Gandhi as his political guru.

Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Non-Violence. Satyagraha is always a powerful weapon following the path of Ahimsa and Non-violence. Satyagraha followed the idea that if the cause was true and if the struggle was against injustice, then there is no need for physical force to fight against the oppressor.

The two principles of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha are as follows: Insistence on the Truth, holding to the Truth. Dependence on the force inherent in Truth.

There are three forms of Satyagraha, namely: (a) non-cooperation, (b) civil disobedience, and (c) fasting.

of 1917The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India and is considered a historically important revolt in the Indian Independence Movement. It was a farmer’s uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar, India, during the British colonial period.

The Satyagraha movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917. He believed that justice could be achieved through non-violence. The concept of Satyagraha is: Satyagraha meant the path of truth and the search for it.

A thing acquired by violence can be retained only by truth. The Indians in South Africa, therefore, can ensure their safety today if they can wield the weapon of Satyagraha. There are no such miraculous properties in Satyagraha, that a thing acquired by truth could be retained even when truth was given up.

Seven major freedom movements started by Mahatma Gandhi.

4 SatyagrahaThe 4 Satyagrahas are very important in the overall freedom movement as they mark the coming of Gandhiji on the national stage.

Gandhi’s satyagraha was an act of moral creativity. For Gandhi, satyagraha was not only a political weapon but a weapon of creativity. Satyagraha is a means of establishing faith inhuman beings as also in God. The philosophy of satyagraha holds that every human being is capable of doing well and thinking good.