question_answer 6)

The events in this part of the text illustrate Gandhi’s method of working. Can you identify some instances of this method and link them to his ideas of satyagraha and non-violence?    

Answer:

Gandhi visited the secretary of the British landlords' association who refused to give information to an outsider but Gandhi stated emphatically that he was no outsider.   When the British official commissioner of the Tirhut division asked him to leave Tirhut, he refused Even when the messenger served him with an official notice to quit Champaran, Gandhi signed a receipt for the notice and wrote on it that he would disobey the order, f-le disregarded the order to leave, 'not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience'.   He organized a gathering of peasants at Motihari, around the courthouse, which was the beginning of their liberation from fear of the British. Nevertheless, Gandhi cooperated with the officials to regulate the crowd. He was polite and friendly. He gave them concrete proof that their might could be challenged by Indians.   He inspired the lawyers to fight the injustice meted out to the sharecroppers. He organized them in pairs and put down the order in which each pair was to court arrest.