Indian Freedom Struggle (Post-Gandhi)

The third and final phase of the Nationalist Movement [1917-1947] is known as the Gandhian era. During this period Mahatma Gandhi became the undisputed leader of the National Movement. His principles of nonviolence and Satyagraha were employed against the British Government. Gandhi made the nationalist movement a mass movement.

Gandhi’s Early Years

• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at Porbandar in Gujarat on 2 October 1869, studied law in England, practiced and developed his principles in South Africa (in his fight against Apartheid).

Gandhi’s early experiments/movements

• Mahatma Gandhi began his experiments with Satyagraha against the oppressive European indigo planters at Champaran ....