Non-Violent Resistance

by Mahatma K Gandhi

  Harijan, 13-4-'40

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  {1} Gandhiji's wife.

  {2} Extract from a Statement by Gandhiji to the Hunter Committee.

  {3} For information about the Rowlatt Act see Editor's introductory notes to III Non-co-operation and Civil Disobedience, at the commencement of Chapter 43 below.

  {4} Finding the word misleading Gandhiji later called the same force Satyagraha or non-violent resistance.—Ed.

  {5} Throughout this chapter the words passive resistance are generally used for Satyagraha.

  {6} From Gandhiji's Presidential Speech at the 3rd Kathiawad Political Conference, Bhavnagar.

  {7} As the atom, so the universe.

  {8} Reference is to apprehensions expressed by a friend "in deep sympathy with the national movement".

  {9} The present article is the report of a talk the representative of The Madras Mail had with Gandhiji. It was reproduced in the Young India from that paper.

  {10} i.e. 4 annas in the rupee meaning 25 per cent of the normal crop.

  {11} Harijansevak and Harijanbandhu—Hindi and Gujarat! editions of the English Harijan.

  {12} The names were to be published later.

  {13} A kind of leaf chewed by people with slacked lime and betel nut.