Mahatma Ghandi: Non Violent Civil Disobedience

Mahatma Ghandi’s technique in his battle for rights and freedoms, nonviolent civil disobedience, was overly successful in its achievement of what Ghandi was aspiring to change. Mahatma Ghandi was a leader in the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India, and his main technique for this was nonviolent civil disobedience. Meaning that Ghandi and his followers would not listen and comply with everyday laws, rules and normal social conduct and would try to provoke movement for civil rights and freedom for everyone across the world through doing whatever they could without being violent towards those against it.

Nonviolent civil disobedience is the most effective technique for protest that history has seen. It employs the notion that a human will instinctively react to violence with more violence, but when someone is non violent, they are dealt with non violently. Nonviolent civil disobedience was Ghandi’s pivotal concept in his attempt to bring freedom to British-ruled India. Through the concept of active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or occupying power, and doing so with no violence whatsoever, Ghandi employed this method extremely effectively, and in doing so limited casualties for both sides. This technique was not invented by Ghandi, however, he was the first to take it to …show more content…
This was through the notion that non violence is much more effective then any other kind of protest, and the logic and evidence that is available to back this statement up is abundant. Mahatma Ghandi was one of the greatest leaders in human history and his principles are being kept alive to the present, because they are both morally correct and extremely effective ways of achieving a social or political goal in a circumstance which involves the need of justice and integrity of