Question

why was satyagrah also known as passive resistance?

Answer 1

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Satyagraha is a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi meaning “adherence to truth,” or perhaps more clearly, “truth-force.”

The concept is at the core of his philosophy, and speaks to not only a tactic, or action, but more significantly it represents a life-stance, or a way of interacting with reality itself.

Gandhi himself distinguished satyagraha from the more limited term of “passive resistance,” by zeroing in on what some might consider to be fine distinctions.

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