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satyagraha::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, passive resistance |
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The flag satyagraha of Nagpur and Jabalpur occurred over several months in 1923.
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As it was incomplete I had coined the word satyagraha for the Gujarati readers.
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British documents show that the British government was shaken by satyagraha.
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Gandhi then launched a new satyagraha against the tax on salt in March 1930.
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Satyagraha theory also influenced many other movements of civil resistance.
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Gandhi's ideas took shape, and the concept of satyagraha matured during this struggle.
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Gandhi chose the 1882 British Salt Act as the first target of satyagraha.
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Congress leaders decided to end satyagraha as official policy in 1934.
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The ban upon the Congress was removed because of economic hardships caused by the satyagraha.
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- The form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms
- Satyagraha (/u02CCsu00E6tu026Au0259u02C8u0261ru0251u02D0hu0251u02D0/; Sanskrit: u0938u0924u094Du092Fu093Eu0917u094Du0930u0939 satyu0101graha) u2014 loosely translated as "insistence on truth" (satya "truth"; agraha "insistence" or "holding firmly to") or holding onto truth or truth force u2014 is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term satyagraha was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi...
- Satyagraha is an opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance de Jong. The opera is loosely based on the life of Mohandas K. ...
- Seizing by truth. The act of passive resistance espoused by Gandhi in dealing with the British colonial powers.
- Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence as a self-purification combining the search for truth and the refusal to cause harm. Civil disobedience and passive resistance may be considered forms of satyagraha.
- Method employed by Mahatma Gandhi and his followers to secure sociopolitical reform by nonviolent, passive resistance and noncooperation; the individual following the method is called a satyagrahi.
- M.K. Gandhi's version of nonviolent action, and also his fuller belief system enjoining nonviolent personal behavior and social responsibility. Pronounced sat-ya-graha.
- India The force of truth, meaning non-violent resistance.
- ["insistence on truth", in the Indian national movement the name given to the non-violent resistance advocated by Mahatma Gandhi and others].
