Gandhi's Horrific Amritsar Massacre

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Q3. Mohandas K. Gandhi became a leader in India after the horrific Amritsar Massacre. Mohandas K. Gandhi had a unique way for battling religious injustice. Instead of having violent protests, he believed in peaceful protesting. Many believe that this idea of peaceful protesting came form his religious background. He became the voice for many world religions; for example, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. Gandhi's tactics of civil disobedience would affect the British in many ways. Ultimately it would severely weaken the British government and control over India. All of his peaceful protesting and boycotting would lead to social, economic, and political problems in Great Britain. After the fact that the British had failed …show more content…

Gandhi asked the India people to refuse to buy British made goods. This would severely wreaking their economy considering the fact that most of their products were sold in smaller nations that were under their control. If the Indians refused to buy the British made goods, then surely enough England's economics would begin to fall. Gandhi had also asked the Indian people to refuse to attend government schools, refuse to pay British taxes, and refuse to vote in elections. With all of this boycotting, the British government would grow very angry. Gandhi was successful in his boycott over British cloth, cloth was of importance in Britain. Gandhi had asked all Indians to weave their own cloth instead of buying it from England. Gandhi used himself as an example as he devoted two hours of his life daily to weaving his own cloth and even wearing it. As you can imagine, due to this boycott, British cloth sales had dropped …show more content…

According to the British laws, Indians were only allowed to buy salt from the British government. Obviously, the Indians did not agree with this crazy law. Not only were Indians supposed to buy salt from the government's, but it was taxed too. Gandhi and a group of his followers had marched over 240 miles to the seacoast. Once there, the began making their own salt. This protest would become known as the Salt March. Some demonstrators intended to march to the British government where they processed salt. Unfortunately, many of the demonstrators had been violently attack by British police officers with clubs. Indians had been beaten and they had nothing to defend themselves with. This didn't stop Gandhi and the Indians, they continued to peacefully protest. Eventually, Gandhi and about 60,000 of his supporters were arrested and thrown in

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