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      • On March 30, 1919, Gandhi launched a nationwide protest against the Rowlatt Act. He saw the Rowlatt Act as a direct attack on the civil liberties and democratic rights of the Indian people. He believed that the act would lead to widespread arrests, torture, and oppression of Indian nationalists and freedom fighters.
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  1. 2 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Resistance, India: Gandhi was not the man to nurse a grudge. On the outbreak of the South African (Boer) War in 1899, he argued that the Indians, who claimed the full rights of citizenship in the British crown colony of Natal, were in duty bound to defend it.

  2. Jun 10, 2010 · The Salt March of 1930 was a bold act of nonviolent civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest and put an end to British rule and taxation in India.

  3. 2 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Indian Independence, Satyagraha: For the next three years, Gandhi seemed to hover uncertainly on the periphery of Indian politics, declining to join any political agitation, supporting the British war effort, and even recruiting soldiers for the British Indian Army.

  4. Nov 2, 1999 · As he sought to free India from British colonialism, his methods--civil disobedience, passive resistance and nonviolence--proved so powerful that they were later adopted by such...

  5. Mar 3, 2011 · The 'Great Rebellion' helped create a racial chasm between ordinary Indians and Britons. Indeed the conservative elites of princely India and big landholders were to prove increasingly...

  6. Aug 8, 2017 · The movement, Gandhi decided, would be called “Quit India” to reflect his main demand: that the United Kingdom leave India voluntarily. In a speech at a meeting of the Congress in Bombay at the...

  7. Mar 12, 2015 · In March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and his followers set off on a brisk 241-mile march to the Arabian Sea town of Dandi to lay Indian claim to the nation's own salt.