Indian independence movement

that lead India to independence from England was World War II, protests, and changes in government including the Indian National Congress. During World War II, when the Indian natives fought alongside the colonists against the imperial forces of Hitler, they came to the realization that they wanted independence after they finished fighting in the war . In August 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and other Quit India activists protested for independence which was the first step to independence after World War II

Mahatma Gandhi was the primary leader of India’s independence movement and also the architect of a form of non-violent civil disobedience that would influence the world. He became an underdog shortly after he died. I’m here to tell you how and why he became an underdog. “Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India. Mahatma Gandhi studied law and advocated for the civil rights of Indians, both at home under British rule and in South

protest the unfair treatment of Indians by the British. Parks and Gandhi helped end discrimination through their participation in boycotts and marches. Both Rosa Parks and Mohandas Gandhi furthered the end of discrimination through their aid in boycotts.

kərəmʨən̪d̪ ɡaːn̪d̪ʱiː] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence, which helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma Gandhi ([məɦaːt̪maː]; Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā

come by. The Indian freedom movement and the African freedom movement both had their fair share of struggles before achieving their desired state of freedom. Some of these struggles were common to both countries but each also experienced difficulties unique to their own country as well. One common thing between both India and Africa’s freedom movements is their success in becoming free nations under the rule of their own government rather than by a foreign countries. In India, the movement began its

India’s independence was won without a revolutionary war, only because Gandhi's civil disobedience method was successful. The British were not used to such methods. Gandi understood disrupting the economy was crucial in his bid for independence. His non-violent methods gained a lot of support from the Indian people to rise up against the British. His revolutionary methods did n’t push the British into using force. This made the Indian public less fearful of supporting the movement as compared to

     Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a small coastal town in the western region of British ruled India on October 2, 1867. Gandhi’s father was a politician and served as Prime Minister to a number of local Indian Princes. His mother, Putilibai, was Gandhi’s father’s fourth wife. His parents were not well educated but his mother was literate. Despite their educational problems they were well off and owned several houses in Porbandar, and in nearby villages. Because

the Swadeshi triumvirate who advocated the Swadeshi movement involving the boycott of all imported items and the use of Indian-made goods in 1907. The last years of the nineteenth century, saw a radical sensibility emerge among some Indian Intellectuals. This position burst onto the national all-India scene in 1905 with the Swadeshi movement - the term is usually rendered as "self reliance" or "self sufficiency".[1] Lal-Bal-Pal, mobilized Indians across the country against the Bengal partition, and

times to win India’s independence from the British. The British wanted all Indians to imitate their customs and cultures. To get India’s independence Gandhi had to get people to live free of all ranks, even the old Indian caste system, He needed this to happen so that India will unite as one to use civil disobedience against the British to win freedom from British rule. As a part of Gandhi’s movement towards independence, he shed his clothing to look more like a deprived Indian than a British attorney

worldwide attention, [but it] gave impetus to the Indian independence movement and the start of a nationwide non-cooperation movement.” Moreover, Gandhi decided to set up a Satyagraha Campaign in opposition of the ‘Black Act’ which is also known as the Asiatic Law Amendment and the South African Indian Movement. The Black Act started “throughout 1904-1906, [where] the Transvaal Government’s Asiatic Department diligently carried out all anti-Indian regulations and showed special aptitude in inventing