What Made Gandhi's Nonviolent Movement Work?

What made Gandhi’s nonviolent movement work?

By Maddie Spenner

Have you ever truly thought about why Gandhi’s movement actually worked? Well I hadn’t until recently when I discovered the real reason why Gandhi’s non-violent independence movement worked to get the subcontinent of India freedom from Great Britain. Gandhi’s nonviolent was successful because of his strategies to keep the nonviolence in his movement. Gandhi was also successful because of Gandhi’s drive, fearlessness, dauntlessness, and absolute bravery. Not only Gandhi but all his followers all worked so hard for their country and it definitely paid off later. Gandhi was a determined,young lawyer who realized at the age of 24 what he was going to devote his life to, and that was getting India its freedom from a country known as Great

This shows that these people realized that Gandhi could not be taken down by the enemy he embraced the British. One of Gandhi’s other strategies he used other than civil disobedience was to embrace the enemy which in his situation would be the british. From Gandhi’s speeches and actions Gandhi told the public that he really did not hate the british he hated the british empire and its influence of India. Gandhi even supported Britain during the First World War and, as late as 1918, joined a government campaign for Indians to volunteer for the British Army. Gandhi also tried not to break the law in his protest.He used civil disobedience,so he was not trying to get in trouble with the british or make them mad. A quote that Gandhi said to support the idea that Gandhi embraced the enemy is “The Indian struggle is not anti-british,it is anti-british empire,exploration,anti-foreign rule,not anti-foreigners.”Gandhi not only embraced the enemy to be successful but he also put in hard work and dedication into everything he did in his independence