Different modes of Agitation : Growth of Satyagraha and Militant Movements
Racial discrimination led Gandhi from petitions to disciplined satyagraha, combining peaceful marches, voluntary arrest, non-retaliation and community training.
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Modes of Agitation: Origins of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1893-1914
Racial discrimination led Gandhi from petitions to disciplined satyagraha, combining peaceful marches, voluntary arrest, non-retaliation and community training.
Open article →Modes of Agitation: Swadeshi, Boycott and Militancy, 1905-1911
The anti-partition struggle combined economic boycott, constructive self-help, passive resistance, militant nationalism and a conditional turn to armed action.
Open article →Growth of Satyagraha: Champaran, Ahmedabad and Kheda, 1917-1918
Champaran turned principled refusal, mass support and investigation into agrarian relief; Ahmedabad and Kheda established satyagraha as an Indian mass method.
Open article →Growth of Satyagraha: Rowlatt and Non-Cooperation, 1919-1922
The Rowlatt Act produced nationwide fasting and prayer; Khilafat widened mobilisation, and Congress adopted an eight-part withdrawal programme before Chauri Chaura.
Open article →Militant Movements: Rampa Tribal Armed Resistance, 1922-1924
Alluri Sitarama Raju led Rampa Adivasis against forest restrictions and corrupt officials; special police suppression ended in his martyrdom.
Open article →Militant Movements: HRA, Kakori and HSRA, 1924-1929
After Non-Cooperation, revolutionaries formed the HRA, carried out the Kakori action and reorganised as the socialist HSRA before the Assembly protest.
Open article →Growth of Satyagraha: Civil Disobedience and Salt, 1929-1932
Poorna Swaraj led to deliberate non-violent law-breaking: Gandhi chose the salt tax, marched to Dandi, widened participation and negotiated a temporary suspension.
Open article →Militant Movements: Chittagong Raid and Revolutionary Rule, 1930-1934
Surya Sen's group seized armouries, proclaimed a provisional revolutionary government and sustained raids for three years before colonial capture and execution.
Open article →Growth of Satyagraha: Individual Protest and Quit India, 1940-1942
Individual Satyagraha tested limited wartime dissent; failed negotiation and shortages then produced Quit India's demand for immediate British withdrawal.
Open article →Militant Movements: Underground Resistance and INA, 1942-1945
With leaders jailed, socialists, women and clandestine radio sustained underground resistance while Subhas Bose reorganised the INA for armed advance.
Open article →Militant Movements: Royal Indian Navy Revolt, February 1946
Naval ratings revolted in Bombay, spread the action to other stations and inspired related air-force and signal-corps strikes involving over twenty thousand sailors.
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