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Hardly was the mill workers' strike over, when Gandhi had to plunge into the Kheda Satyagraha struggle. The Kheda district of Gujarat was on the verge of famine owing to failure of the crops. The yield had been so low that the cultivators, especially the poorer section, were unable to pay the revenue.
Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat : Kheda District, 1917-1934 by David Hardiman; Patel: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi; My Autobiography, Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth (1929) by M.K. Gandhi; Indian Independence Movement, Indian Nationalism; Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhism, Satyagraha, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Kheda Satyagraha marks the beginning of an awakening among the peasants of Gujarat, the beginning of their true political education. Dr. Besant's brilliant Home Rule agitation had certainly touched the peasants, but it was the Kheda campaign that compelled the educated public workers to establish contact with the actual life of the peasants.
The Kheda Satyagraha marks the beginning of an awakening among the peasants of Gujarat, the beginning of their true political education. Dr. Besant's brilliant Home Rule agitation had certainly touched the peasants, but it was the Kheda campaign that compelled the educated public workers to establish contact with the actual life of the peasants.
Salt March. Gandhi leading his followers on the famous Salt March to abolish the British salt laws. The Salt march, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India, led by Mahatma Gandhi. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct ...
Kheda Satyagraha: First Non-Cooperation, 1918. In 1918, due to drought conditions, crops in Kheda district of Gujarat failed, creating severe stress for the peasants. Authorities refused to follow Revenue Code, which stated: ‘ Remission to be granted to farmers if the yield was less than 1/4th of the normal period’.
During the Kheda Satyagraha of 1918, held in the Kheda district of Gujarat, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who led the movement from the forefront, wrote a series of writings that exhorted the peasants in Kheda to join the movement. Distributed as pamphlets and published in newspapers Navjivan and Prajabandhu, these writings encouraged the people of ...
