The Improvement Era, Vol. 34: March, 1931 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Gandhi tried all legal means to redress the grievances of his coun trymen, \but the South _african government refused to take the discriminatory legislation (from the statute books. He therefore advised his clients to practice pas sive resistance and to disobey all laws which infringed on their rights and reduced them to the level of a community without caste. He welded them into one cohesive brotherhood and put him self at their head. For this he was arrested along with many of his followers and sent to jail. He was beaten and roughly handled but persisted in his vow of non resistance, strictly enjoining upon his followers not to resort to vio lence and reprisal. After a hard and strenuous agitation be com pelled the South African adminis tration to yield to his demands and to concede the rights of citizen ship to his fellow countrymen.

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