Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:‘It is said of “passive resistance” that it is the weapon of the weak, but the power which is the
subject of this article can be used only by the strong. This power is not passive resistance;
indeed it calls for intense activity. The movement in South Africa was not passive but active...
‘Satyagraha is not physical force. A satyagrahi does not infl ict pain on the adversary; he does
not seek his destruction... In the use of satyagraha, there is no ill-will whatever. Satyagraha is
pure soul-force. Truth is the very substance of the soul. That is why this force is called
satyagraha. The soul is informed with knowledge. In it burns the fl ame of love. ...Non-violence
is the supreme dharma... ‘It is certain that India cannot rival Britain or Europe in force of arms.
The British worship the war-god and they can all of them become, as they are becoming,
bearers of arms. The hundreds of millions in India can never carry arms. They have made the
religion of non-violence their own...’
(i) What do you mean by passive resistance?
(ii) To what extent do you feel that Truth should be called the force of Satyagraha?
(iii) What was the difference between the gandhian and British way of dealing the Satyagraha in
India?
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It is said of passive resistance that it is the weapon of the weak but the power which is the subject of this article can be used only by the strong this power is not passive resistance Indeed it calls for intense activity the movement in South Africa was not passive but active 1 1 1 i which movement
It is said of 'passive resistance' that it is the weapon of the weak, but the power which is the subject of this article can be used only by the strong. This power is not passive resistance; indeed it calls for intense activity. 'Satyagraha is pure soul force. ...
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