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Critically examine how Mahatma Gandhi used the concept of non-violence as a practical tool of resistance to the colonial rule
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Critically examine how Mahatma Gandhi used the concept of non-violence as a practical tool of resistance to the colonial rule. Throughout the ages mankind often instinctively turns to the use of violence to defeat an enemy. Violence is part and parcel of the culture of human beings. And yet one of the greatest freedom struggles in modern history was apparently won through the specific rejection of violence, and the active use of a policy of non-violence. That struggle was between the Indian independence movement and the British colonial administration. At the head of that independence movement was Mahatma Gandhi, a simple Indian who held no office or great wealth, and yet was able to unite a whole subcontinent against the British Empire. Not only that, but he did it in such a peaceful, virtuous way that he made the British question their own moral's and eventually forced them out of...
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