why Mahatma Gandhi was called as torch bearer of freedom struggle towards Independence class 10th
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Even as the Second World War was going on, Indians were fighting a battle of their own, and political forces in India, like the Indian National Congress, along with Mahatma Gandhi, were severely pressurising the Britishers to leave the country.
In 1942, Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time, sent Sir Stafford Chips, a member of the War Cabinet, to India, to discuss changes in Indian politics.
However, when the Indian National Congress and the Muslim league discovered that the proposal had no provision for Indian politicians to make decisions in military strategy, the negotiations fell through.
This resulted in Gandhi igniting the fire of a mass protest against British rule in India, and it came to be known as the Quit India Movement.
On 8 August 1942, Gandhi addressed the masses from the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay (now Mumbai) and exhorted them to participate in the Quit India Movement.
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Here are some excerpts from his speech.
“Occasions like the present do not occur in everybody’s and but rarely in anybody’s life. I want you to know and feel that there is nothing but purest Ahimsa in all that I am saying and doing today. The draft resolution of the Working Committee is based on Ahimsa; the contemplated struggle similarly has its roots in Ahimsa. If, therefore, there is any among you who has lost faith in Ahimsa or is wearied of it, let him not vote for this resolution…”
Although Gandhi was the torchbearer of non-violence, and strongly believed that the principle would be a perfect weapon against the tyranny of the British government, he wasn’t blind to its imperfections.
“I know how imperfect our Ahimsa is and how far away we are still from the ideal, but in Ahimsa there is no final failure or defeat. I have faith, therefore, that if in spite of our shortcomings, the big thing does happen, it will be because God wanted to help us by crowning with success our silent, unremitting Sadhana1 for the last twenty-two years…” he said.
Gandhi wanted the masses to question their fight. The fight, according to him, was not against the current ruling power but rather against the concept of imperialism. Without the clarity as to what they were battling, the Indian population might have won a battle but lost the war.
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