Gandhi

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an extremely major role in India’s fight for Independence. He taught the people his non-violent techniques through his many newspapers. He also taught the people to be able to support themselves without the help of the British. He organized boycotts on British goods and helped the Indian people show the British that they were unwanted and unneeded in India, but he never once allowed violence. If the people ever broke out in violence he would stop eating for numerous days at a time until the violence stopped. He was extremely loved by the Indian people and when they realized he was starving himself it took effective measures and the fighting always stopped because revolution might well, have broken out in India if he had died. Gandhi and his many followers were now living in the poorest villages all over India. He had taught them to fight for India’s freedom. Violence only means more violence. The Indians listened and prisons began to fill with men and women who refused ...

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