A Research On Contemporary World History

M.K. Gandhi was an Indian who protested successfully against Britain and ultimately influenced future events around the world. Gandhi’s most successful tactic to gain Indian independence was “Satyagraha” or passive resistance because the majority of society would disagree with the opponent, they will continue to protest no matter what, and it was successfully used in the Salt March. Firstly, using this tactic, about 80 Indian citizens were publically brutalized by British authorities which greatly influenced the world against them because an eyewitness wrote and sent thousands of newspapers, talking about British police brutality, around the world. For example, in Source 3 the text says, “Webb Miller’s eyewitness account was published in over a thousand newspapers around the world.”

Indian was struggled not only from unfair laws, but also freedom from British rule. Until one day, when Great Britain imposed a tax on indian salt. Except for water and food, salt was important for Indians because salt make their food taste good and most importantly salt is essential for our health. Gandhi doesn’t like the idea that Great Britain imposed a tax on Indian Tax. He think that Indians should be allow to produced and sale their own salt.

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1. Consider how Baldric presents Pope Urban's reasons for calling for this holy war. If order of presentation and emphasis mean anything, what was, according to our chronicler, the pope's chief motive?

Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. He proposed a speech to all of his followers explaining what his resolution was to gain independence, without using violence. Mahatma Gandhi adopts a subtle and affirmative tone while revealing that non violence and the spreading of love is the way to approach this movement for independence. He also portrays his outline for the movement by appealing to the audience's emotions.

Gandhi was most opposed to the salt tax, so he started the Salt March. Before the march, Gandhi sent a letter to a British governor named Lord Irwin, informing him that he was about to break the law. However, he did not want to break the law, as he said in his letter. " Before embarking on Civil Disobedience and taking a risk I have dreaded to take all the years, I would approach you... and find a way out." He wanted to find some peace; his nonviolence acts spread across the world (Document A).

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1. What is made possible by the agglomeration of people, services, and goods in a city that is not possible, or far more difficult, in rural areas?

He outed the moral and political philosophy of satyagraha, or nonviolent resistance, which he had developed while in South Africa. His message to Indians was simple: develop your own resources and control the instincts and activities that encourage membership in colonial economy and government, and you shall achieve swaraj or self-rule. Faced with Indian self-reliance and self-control pursued nonviolently, Gandhi claimed, the British eventually would have to leave. When the Depression struck India in 1930, Gandhi asked for his people not to use salt showing his new way of civil disobedience. Salt symbolized tasked the Indians' defeat to an alien government. To break the colonial government's control, Gandhi began a 240-mile march from western India to the coast to gather sea salt for free. With him were seventy-one followers representing different regions of India. Thousands of people met around and encouraging them to hold independence from British rule. (Pollard, Rosenberg, Tignor 2015 Pages

Mohandas Gandhi used the strategy of Nonviolent Resistance to accomplish important political and cultural changes. Gandhi has changed several of India’s ways and has led India to independence. One major turning point Gandhi has accomplished is the taxation of salt. When India was under the British’s control, the British had taxed salt which was an essential need for India. The British was injustice because most people residing in India could not obtain the salt due to living in poverty. Gandhi has decided to march to the Gulf of Khambhat and make their own salt from seawater. The march is famously known as “The Salt March”.

In an effort to help free India from the British rule, Mahatma Gandhi once again contributed to a protest against salt taxes, known as the Salt March. This protest advocated Gandhi’s theory of satyagraha or nonviolent disobedience as the nation came together on March 12, 1930 to walk the 241 miles long journey to the shores of Dandi to attain salt. Although some Indians criticized Gandhi for not achieving direct independence from the Raj or British rule, Gandhi’s execution of the Salt March helped to create a stronger nation for the Indians to live in. Gandhi motivated the Indians to act robustly against the injustices of the salt taxes through nonviolent means. This caused Gandhi to create a temporary compromising pact between Gandhi and

Aroused by the massacre of Amritsar in 1919, Gandhi devoted his life to gaining India’s independence from Great Britain. As the dominant figure used his persuasive philosophy of non-violent confrontation, he inspired political activists with many persuasions throughout the world (Andrews 23). Not only was Mahatma Gandhi a great peacemaker, but also his work to achieve freedom and equality for all people was greatly acknowledged. Gandhi’s unconventional style of leadership gained him the love of a country and eventually enabled him to lead the independence movement in India.

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On June 26th, I started my first online college class. I thought World History would be a great place to start and relatively easy course to pass. I had no idea how the class would make significant changes in my life. This class was far from a few easy credits I thought I would acquire in the short 8 weeks. The few weeks with Professor Jared Harrington increased my literacy towards topics I would have given up in the past. This class affected my world view, improved me as a student, a learner, enlightened my view on world religions, forced me to analyze information from readings, and helped me formulate my own thoughts. The amount of material covered in this course was immense and I now believe I have a better view of religion, its role in history, and where the world is heading due to all the historical events of the past.

Although he planned to end British Imperialism and hoped that this salt satyagraha would be a pivotal event for Indian Independence, the outcome was not what he had expected. Without the use of violent force in return to the government's cruel attack, Gandhi and his followers received little to nothing at the end of the March, “And yet, judging by what Gandhi gained at the bargaining table at the conclusion of the campaign, one can form a very different view of the salt satyagraha” (Engler). The Salt March allowed Gandhi to attend the Round Table Conference, but little was accomplished here and the road to independence took several years ("Mohandas Gandhi Leads the Salt March: March 12–April 5, 1930”). As Gandhi and his followers continued to refuse taking up arms their chance of making a positive influence on the country weakened. Even though nonviolent methods did allow for more peace and less bloodshed, due to the outcome of this method, Gandhi’s use of nonviolence was evidently inefficient. He was unable to keep Hindus and Muslims together, and the path to independence took longer than it should have. Gandhi is not the only person to have failed using nonviolent resistance, and due to how many people in the past have not accomplished many of their ambitions through nonviolence proves violence is overall a more