Examines how David Henry Thoreau’s essay, `Civil Disobedience` was applied by Mahatmas Gandhi.
This paper examines how Indian leader Mahatmas Gandhi applied David Henry Thoreau’s essay, Civil Disobedience to his own philosophies and modes of resistance. The paper discusses how as the result of Gandhi’s imprisonment, he had unjust laws repealed in South Africa and he took the crusade to free India from British rule. The paper notes that although Gandhi added many other writings and philosophies to his own in this struggle, Thoreau’s essay laid the groundwork for the great movement in the freedom of India.
For thousands of years people have taken control of other people by sheer act of force. They have done this by guns, battle and war. But what if there were a war and nobody came? An economic war waged was being successfully by the British Empire for at least three centuries using India, as it’s major arsenal. The Indian people had been in the hands and at the mercy of the British Empire who used them to become the greatest economic and military giant of the Industrial Revolution.
In the beginning of the twentieth century a seed of revolt against British Tyranny was planted in the mind of a young lawyer named Mohatmas Gandhi. It would not be a normal revolt with guns and bullets but with peaceful civil disobedience.”
In the beginning of the twentieth century a seed of revolt against British Tyranny was planted in the mind of a young lawyer named Mohatmas Gandhi. It would not be a normal revolt with guns and bullets but with peaceful civil disobedience.”