Gandhi's Horrific Amritsar Massacre

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

to hold the soldiers responsible for the Amritsar Massacre, Indians became furious. Gandhi had come up with a solution, he went to the Indian National Congress with his plan. Once there, he asked the congress to follow a policy of noncooperation against the British government. In 1920, the congress did support the civil disobedience. The Indian public would now publicly refuse to obey unjust laws on purpose. They would use nonviolence in order to achieve their independence. In other words, if the British soldiers used violent forces on them, the Indians would not fight back. They were peacefully and nonviolently protesting. With Gandhi's idea of civil disobedience working, the British government began to weaken severely. With civil disobedience, the British authority and economic powers over India began to crumble.
With Gandhi's idea of civil disobedience working, Gandhi called for boycotts.

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

tremendously.
Gandhi continued with strikes and demonstrations. Overall, everything was beginning to take its toll over in England. Gandhi's civil disobedience continued to harmfully effect the British economics. England actually struggled to keep trains and factories running. They even faced the problem of keeping the overcrowded jails form bursting. Due to the strikes and demonstrations, thousands of Indians had been arrested by the British government. Unfortunately, some of the protests had sometimes led to riots, Gandhi did not support these violent outbreaks.
Gandhi continued his fight for freedom, he did so is his next protest against Britain.

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

jail.
In conclusion, Gandhi's tactics of civil disobedience had in fact harmfully affected the British government. Gandhi and his followers protested peacefully, yet they still brought England down. Gandhi had weakened the British government and economic system by boycotting, protesting, etc. The British were severely weakened due to all of Gandhi's civil disobedience acts.