How To Use Satyagraha In A Sentence
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THANJAVUR: Vedaranyam Salt Satyagraha Padayatra, re-enacted by the Tamil Nadu Congress, to commemorate the 80th year completion of the historic event and 125th year of Indian National Congress, arrived at Thiruvaiyaru near Thanjavur on Friday.
The Hindu - Front Page
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In both examples, if the confrontation is based on adherence to truth (what Gandhi followers know as "satyagraha") and nonviolence ( "ahimsa"), a transformation is possible.
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From the fields I went off to the Bargarh satyagraha.
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Blogging a satyagraha - hunger strike - to save homeland in Sikkim
Boing Boing
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The main forms of mass struggle in the Valley have been non-violent direct actions - marches, satyagraha and civil disobedience.
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Above all, I wish to say that it is up to the community to win its freedom and that its ultimate weapon, an irresistible one, is satyagraha … I am, of course, a satyagrahi and I hope always to remain one, but in December last I fell more under the spell of indenture.
ANC Today
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Shanti owned a press, aptly called Motherland Press and, after a while, he began printing Quit India, a clandestine newspaper inciting people to carry out satyagraha against the British.
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The satyagraha was a part of the struggle of India for its dignity, and a moral crusade, though waged on the South African soil.
GANDHI AND SOUTH AFRICA
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For three weeks before the march, Rajaji undertook a quick tour of Tamil districts, apprising the people on the implication of the forthcoming salt satyagraha.
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The result was a methodology for organizing and life that he termed "Satyagraha" -- a Sanskrit word usually translated as "truth force" or "soul force.
Ben Brandzel: Rally to Restore Satyagraha?
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Now it becomes more difficult for those who kept wanting to give this Feisal Abdul Rauf the benefit of the doubt to keep calling him a "moderate" without any supporting evidence, or to fall back on his self-description as a "Sufi" as if that implied some kind of Gandhian satyagraha, when Sufis can be just as determinedly bent on Jihad, that is, the "struggle" to remove all obstacles to the spread and then the dominance of Islam as any other Muslim group.
FrontPage Magazine
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A counter petition was filed against the court case that followed stating that the satyagraha had been peaceful and that the inhabitants of the area were calling for just demands.
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Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: Why did you choose "satyagraha" for the title?
Gandhi’s Wonder Years
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He became a populist leader and satyagraha spread throughout India.
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These included the centenaries of the Bambata Rebellion and the launch of Satyagraha, the 60th anniversary of the Mineworkers 'Strike, the 50th anniversary of the Women's
ANC Today
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His letter calling people to satyagraha electrified us.
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In Satyagraha in South Africa, he speaks of the surpassing beauty of Cape Town situated at the foot of the Table Mountain.
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These included the centenaries of the Bambata Rebellion and the launch of Satyagraha, the 60th anniversary of the Mineworkers 'Strike, the 50th anniversary of the Women's March and the 30th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising.
ANC Today
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Bush's visit to the memorial is sure to generate enormous protest, as well it should, but I think it also presents a rare opportunity to bring Gandhi's philosophy of "satyagraha" - truth-seeking, self-sacrifice and nonviolent resistance - to bear on the world Bush has wrought.
Bush and Gandhi
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Then in 1919, British plans to intern people suspected of sedition prompted him to announce a new satyagraha.
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Dr. Krishnabai Nimbkar from Pune had wanted to go on a satyagraha in protest against the kind of politics which played one community against the other.
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But it ultimately spawned a lifelong fight against injustice and oppression through "satyagraha," variously translated as "truth force" or "passive resistance," which culminated in India's 1947 freedom from British rule.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The other great advantage that the Egyptian people had over the regime is their spiritual resilence, or what Gandhi called "satyagraha" holding to truth.
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Gandhi's satyagraha in India, where tens of thousands of villagers defied the British Raj's tax on sail by drying seawater in the 1940s, is another well-known example.
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This is where Gandhi developed his concept of satyagraha, translated in the west as passive resistance that, in the end, influenced the whole of the colonial world.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi's movement of satyagraha, or non-violent passive resistance in the face of British oppression, formed the key to India's response to British colonization and gave shape to the drive for independence.
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By relating what Gandhi said to what he did and by examining instances of satyagraha led by others, this book abstracts from the Indian experiments those essential elements that constitute the Gandhian technique.
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One of the most dramatic events of the satyagraha was the burning of the passes, similar to the burning of British cloth in the swadeshi movement.
MAHATMA GANDHI - SOUTH AFRICA'S GIFT TO INDIA?(1)
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If we do not get a satisfactory response from you by 15th September 2002, we shall be constrained to launch a nation-wide satyagraha.
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Ramachandra (Victory to Ramachandra) roza ryot - peasant, farmer sadhu sanatanji (Hindu) sannyasi satyagraha satyagrahi seth, sheth
APPENDIX I
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Those who support Herta are participating in satyagraha, too.
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Hardiman points out other limitations, such as Gandhi's patriarchal outlook that survived his daring call to women to join satyagraha.
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Many felt that the serene Sannidhanam should not have been made the venue for its satyagraha.
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A year previously, Gandhi had launched the Salt Satyagraha, which mobilised hundreds of thousands of Indians to defy colonial laws and ask for an end to colonial rule.
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He was the pioneer of Satyagraha , mass resistance to government oppression through peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience and non-cooperation.
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Then, when Gandhi announced a fresh round of satyagraha in 1930, he chose Rajaji to be the first to break the salt laws in South India.
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He unified opposition among the disparate Indian community to the passing of racially discriminatory laws and pioneered the techniques of satyagraha (non-violent resistance), which later were to make him famous.
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The year 1919 saw Mani Bhawan emerge as a centre of satyagraha.
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Gandhiji and Sree Narayana Guru held talks at Sivagiri and the Mahatma himself offered satyagraha for several days.
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Thus was born satyagraha, or non-violent resistance.
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Thus was born satyagraha, or non-violent resistance.
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A few weeks earlier another minister staged a 'satyagraha', a hunger-strike-unto-death, in an effort to force the Secretary General of the United Nations to withdraw the panel that he had appointed to advise him on the course of action he should take relating to the alleged acts of violence by the military that took place in Sri Lanka in the latter part of the conflict with the LTTE that ended in May 2009.
NZ On Screen
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India's movement for independence was marked by nonviolence as hundreds of thousands of Indians responded to Mahatma Gandhi's call for satyagraha, which means to be steadfast in truth.
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Satyagraha might awaken in them an awareness of the profound evil of industrial civilization.
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Krishna Pillai resigned the Rs.30-a-month job as a Hindi pracharak and enrolled himself as a volunteer in the `Salt Satyagraha March' taken out from Kozhikode to Payyannur in today's Kannur district as a part of the first Civil Disobedience Movement.
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