Idea of Satyagraha

✴Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in January, 1915. His heroic fight for the Indians in South Africa was well-known. His novel method of mass agitation known as Satyagraha had yielded good results. ✴The idea of Satyagraha emphasized the power of truth and the need to search for truth. In 1916, Gandhi travelled to Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the oppressive plantation system. ✴In 1917,crops field in Kheda district of Gujrat, but the government refused to remit land revenue and insisted on its full collection. ✴In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi intervened in a dispute between workers and mill owners of Ahmedabad. He advised to workers to go on strike and to demand a 35% increase in wages. ✴Satyagraha brought Gandhiji into close touch with the workers in the urban areas....

It states that the struggle of freedom could be led by non violence

Satyagrah emphaised the power of truth and non violence. It states if the cause was true and struggle was against injustice than physical force is not needed to fight with oppressor satyagrah stands for satya-true agrah - to hold with firm