• ISBN13: 9788171560004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
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• Publication Date: October 15, 1988
• Pages: 328
• Original Price: 275.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
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The emergence of Mahatma Gandhi on the political scene of our country generated a new spirit and awakening among the masses of India. For about three years after coming back from South Africa, he found no activity except meeting people and thus assessing their political, economic and social problems. His initial success in the Champaran Satyagraha afforded Gandhi more confidence to launch the first mass movement in 1920 after the ghastly tragedy at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. The response to his movement was spontaneous from men, women, students, peasants and labourers. The spirit of boycott and swadeshi travelled like lightening in lakhs of villages.
Swaraj was not to be attained in a short period as the Raj was well-entrenched on the soil of our sub-continent. The subsequent two movements launched in 1930-34 and 1942 were supported by several satyagrahis from the four regions of India. They were convicted, their property including land and valuables were confiscated, and the treatment meted out to them surpassed all norms of decency. The non-violent satyagrahis were severely lathi-charged at numerous places and they became physical wreck as a result of it. They bore all with smile on their faces.
The result of these movements was the attainment of independence from the Raj in 1947. Though it took a long period of six decades to achieve the goal, yet the triumph of non-violent ideology of Gandhi was a romantic political saga in the annals of our history.

Dr. S.R. Bakshi is an eminent historian who is the author of several works on Indian nationalism and the freedom movement