Latchanna organised and led the tappers Satyagraha to secure rehabilitation for the unemployed tappers.
After that Gandhiji started the Salt Satyagraha which was successful.
Satyagraha is your first film after your marriage.
Yashodadevi, wife of Latchanna did Satyagraha in Guntur with 25,000 tappers.
He had taken part in Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha movement in 1940
and was active in the Sarvodaya movement after freedom.
For the first time, Gandhi started Satyagraha in South Africa(non-violent protest)
and promoted harmony between different religious communities.
When Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned, he was Patel,
who led the Satyagraha movement in 1923 against British law in Nagpur.
Satyagraha in its essence is nothing
but the introduction o truth and gentleness in the political, i.e., the national life.
During this struggle, Mahatma Gandhi had developed the novel technique of non-violent agitation,
which he called'Satyagraha', loosely translated as'moral domination'.
When Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned,
it was Patel who led the Satyagraha movement in Nagpur in 1923 against the British law.
The Mahatma's philosophy of Satyagraha, with its related techniques of non-violent resistance,
civil disobedience, and economic boycott, caught the world's imagination.
He categorically denied that Congress' s
method was one of passive resistance. Satyagraha, to him, was not merely passive resistance but active resistance as well.
Amidst the backdrop of a bloody world war, when violence was the order of the time,
India achieved independence through non-violent civil disobedience, through Satyagraha.
Amidst the backdrop of a bloody world war, when violence was the order
of the time, India achieved independence through non-violent civil disobedience, through Satyagraha.
Petit participated in the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 which was a no-tax campaign against the British
Raj where she worked under the guidance of Sardar Patel.
The‘Rowlatt Satyagraha', as the movement came to be known,
however, left the British completely unmoved, as they did not perceive the peaceful‘hartal' to be a threat.
However, it did not make any impressive impact on the people and
the district offered only 171 arrests during the wake of individual Satyagraha Movement in 1941.
This journey of Salt Satyagraha lasted for 26 days,
which started on March 12, 1930 and ended on April 6, 1930 in a coastal village of Dandi.
And yet, after the salt Satyagraha,‘it was inevitable that Britain should
some day refuse to rule India and that India should some day refuse to be ruled.'.
Back in the year 1949, before the constitution was adopted, B R Ambedkar said in his speech,“One must abandon
the methods of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and Satyagraha.”.
Oppression led to discontent and disturbances which continued, particularly in Bihar,
till the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917, when the indigo agitation assumed
the complexion of a mass political struggle.
He participated in swaraj movement right from age of 21 with Salt Satyagraha at Palasa,
and subsequently was arrested in connection with salt-cotaurs raid at Naupada in April 1930.
It inspired authors and political leaders to agitate against the, exploitation of the peasants by the European planters;
it culminated in the epic Champaran Satyagraha launched by Mahatma Gandhi.
He was jailed multiple times by the British-
once in 1931 for participating in the Salt Satyagraha Movement, and
once in 1942 for being an active member of the Quit India Movement.
The Finance Minister further wrote that most people know that Sardar Patel was a farmer leader and
he had participated in the Bardoli Satyagraha but he was also a successful lawyer.
In 1906 when his political members conducting a peaceful protest were subjected to harsh and violent treatment by the local government,
he formed the idea of"Satyagraha", meaning the force of truth.
He added that if no satisfactory reply was received within a certain
time limit, the partymen should resort to such sanctions as Satyagraha or mass civil disobedience to enforce the national demand.
The Flag Satyagraha was a term coined to describe the hoisting
of the flag as a defiance against British-imposed restrictions on civil freedom and also the legitimacy of British rule in India altogether.
He assured his countrymen and the party that
the British government were at that time not in a position to face a major conflict like an all- India Satyagraha for a long period.
Gandhi returned to India on 19 December, 1914 and after an interrupted stay in Santiniketan in February- March, 1915,
collected his companions of Phoenix' and established the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad city on 25 May, 1915.