Question

role of gandhi in national movement in 200 words

Answer 1

The Swadeshi Movement declined by 1907. There was also a split in the Congress in 1907 and Tilak was imprisoned and deported in 1908. Aurobindo Ghosh and Bipin Chandra Pal retired from politics and Lala Lajpat Rai left India for some time.

All these developments led to a decline in the nationalist movement. It remained dormant for a few years but was revived during the First World War. Annie Besant and Tilak started the Home Rule Leagues and the two wings of the Congress united in 1916.

The War also witnessed the Ghadar Movement started in the United States by some Indian revolutionaries which sought to overthrow the British rule in India. However, the most important development was the arrival of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was later popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, from South Africa.

Answer 2

Mahatma Gandhi is the universally appreciated personality of the Indian Nationalist Movement for his role in commencing non-violent public revolutions. He first applied the non-violent strategy in South Africa where he was working as a refugee advocate.

In India, he determined to apply his newly acquired ways of civil demonstration that were reeling to achieve independence from the British control.

His first point of disagreement with the British colonialists was the excessive charges levied on Indian citizens. He coordinated the working class as well as those dwelling in hardship to complain about the raised taxes and cultural differentiation. In 1921, he became the member of the Indian National Congress, a nationalist federal party, which demanded nondiscriminatory regulations, equality of rights for people, nonviolent inter-religious relationships, the overthrow of the class system, and above all, Indian sovereignty.