Gandhi, independence?

Question:What obstacles did Ghandi face for independence???? Best answer gets 10 points!

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You got me all excited here, asking a question about my personal hero Gandhi, and then you spoil it by waving that stupid 10 point incentive at me. Oh well, I'll tell you anyway. He faced:

1. Resistance from British Imperial forces, who attacked peaceful demonstrations
2. The inter-India warfare between Hindus and Muslims. That made it so much harder to bring all of India into the effort for a non-violent revolution.
3. Resistance from other Indians who didn't want to wait for independence and were strongly in favor of violent means of winning independence.
4. His own weakening condition due to hunger strikes he employed to shame his people into behaving in a civilized way.

In 1915, Gandhi returned from South Africa to live in India.

He spoke at the conventions of the Indian National Congress, but was primarily introduced to Indian issues, politics and the Indian people by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a respected leader of the Congress Party at the time.

Gandhi in 1918, at the time of the Kheda and Champaran satyagrahas.Gandhi's first major achievements came in 1918 with the Champaran agitation and Kheda Satyagraha, although in the latter it was indigo and other cash crops instead of the food crops necessary for their survival. Suppressed by the militias of the landlords (mostly British), they were given measly compensation, leaving them mired in extreme poverty. The villages were kept extremely dirty and unhygienic; and alcoholism, untouchability and purdah were rampant. Now in the throes of a devastating famine, the British levied an oppressive tax which they insisted on increasing. The situation was desperate. In Kheda in Gujarat, the problem was the same. Gandhi established an ashram there, organizing scores of his veteran supporters and fresh volunteers from the region. He organized a detailed study and survey of the villages, accounting for the atrocities and terrible episodes of suffering, including the general state of degenerate living. Building on the confidence of villagers, he began leading the clean-up of villages, building of schools and hospitals and encouraging the village leadership to undo and condemn many social evils, as accounted above.

But his main impact came when he was arrested by police on the charge of creating unrest and was ordered to leave the province. Hundreds of thousands of people protested and rallied outside the jail, police stations and courts demanding his release, which the court reluctantly granted. Gandhi led organized protests and strikes against the landlords, who with the guidance of the British government, signed an agreement granting the poor farmers of the region more compensation and control over farming, and cancellation of revenue hikes and its collection until the famine ended. It was during this agitation, that Gandhi was addressed by the people as Bapu (Father) and Mahatma (Great Soul). In Kheda, Sardar Patel represented the farmers in negotiations with the British, who suspended revenue collection and released all the prisoners. As a result, Gandhi's fame spread all over the nation.

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The British empire threatened him through violent actions, he also had to deal with civil strife between Hindus and Muslims that caused alot of violence. He fasted for weeks once until the fighting between the Muslims and Hindus stopped. The western world and Britan still believed in colinazation and were not willing to let go of India for fear that it would cause a chain reaction in their colonies throughout the world. Throughout all this Gandhi used peaceful protest that all the people of India united through and followed to free themselves of British tereny. Eventually the tentions between Muslims and Hindus led to Gandhi's assasination.

The fact is, regardless of his beliefs, Gandhi began a legacy of peaceful protest and equity. It doesn't really matter what he believed, because he taught equity. He may or may not have been racist, but the work he did was not racist. The work he did promoted equity, and that is why people like Gandhi so much.

He was independently so shrewd that he got the British to leave his country by the use of peaceful means and blackmail.
I think he was freer than anyone who claims to stand for something, but will not do anything.
Doodad

The same that all oppressed people have, in their quest for rights, recognition of the full personhood of each of the citizens of his country.

He had to overcome the racial and religious bigotry of the British Empire.
India posed such a threat as an independent economy, were they to get it going, that some factions thought it best to fan the flames of religious tensions in the country and spark a civil war (eventually resulting in Pakista's formation) that would delay and diminish what they brought to the world stage.

The irony is how evolved and specialized each has become in what they have to offer the world marketplace.
It's no secret that some of the wealthiest Europeans and Americans go to India for the world-class medical care. And, And now, I believe the WORLD is about to get SPANKED by them, in technology, across the board (computers, transportation, ...).

The might of the British Empire.

Who on earth gave thumbs down to the first answerer, Himal P? He knows what he is talking about.