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What Role dose mahatma ganghi played in indian national movement for independence

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Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Gujarat.He was a political and religious leader of India and the Indian National Movement.He was the leading leader of protest against tyranny through satyagraha (comprehensive civil disobedience), the foundation of his concept was laid on the principle of complete non-violence, which led India to the Indian freedom struggle and movement for civil rights and freedom of the people all over the world. inspired for. First of all, Gandhiji started Satyagraha as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa for the struggle for the civil rights of the people of the Indian community. After his return to India in 1915, he united the farmers, laborers and urban workers here to raise their voice against excessive land tax and discrimination.Run many programs against untouchability for freedom from poverty, expansion of women's rights, building religious and caste unity and self-reliance.Gandhiji gained special fame from the Salt Satyagraha in 1930 and the Quit India Movement in 1942, in protest against the salt tax imposed by the British government on Indians. He was also imprisoned for many years on various occasions in South Africa and India. Gandhi's first major achievements came in the Champaran Satyagraha and Kheda Satyagraha in 1918, although the movement of indigo, cash-paying food crops rather than the food crops necessary for his sustenance, was also important.Gandhiji used non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful retaliation as weapons against the British.Gandhi realized that it was only because of the cooperation received from the Indians that the British could come to India. Keeping this in mind, he called for non-cooperation movement. ... The inauspicious day of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre gave impetus to the non-cooperation movement. Gandhi set the goal of Swaraj or self-government which has since become the ideal of the Indian independence movement.

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