In this lesson:
- Learn about Mahatma Gandhi's role in India's independence struggle.
- Explore aspects of non-violent resistance as a central value of Mahatma Gandhi's beliefs and leadership.
- Find out about the role of non-violent resistance in promoting justice in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Learn about Mahatma Gandhi's role in India's independence struggle.
- Explore aspects of non-violent resistance as a central value of Mahatma Gandhi's beliefs and leadership.
- Find out about the role of non-violent resistance in promoting justice in the 20th and 21st centuries.
More Extension Activities:
Watch-Ask-Think What is non-violent resistance?
Read-Ask-Think Can India progress while keeping to the caste system?
Watch-Ask-Think What is non-violent resistance?
Read-Ask-Think Can India progress while keeping to the caste system?
Further reading:
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change
Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change
Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Mahatma Gandhi: Biography and Satyagraha
Keywords: Mahatma Gandhi, Bapuji, Independence, National Symbol, non-violence, ahimsa, satyagraha, Quit India Movement, Salt March, Swarajya, ashram, caste, untouchables, Harijan, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela
Background Reading: Biography
and Satyagraha
"Gandhi - A Pictorial Biography": A short biography is at
this link from
the website of the Bombay Sarvodaya
Mandal/Gandhi Book Centre
"Satyagraha - Gandhi's Concept of Non-Violence" by Savita
Singh from 'India Perspectives', January-March 2008 is at
this
link
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Updated October 2012