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SatyagrahaIndia
History of India
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| | 1906 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Johannesburg While the government is successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the SouthAfrican government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced SouthAfrican General Jan Chr |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Calls on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Start of a seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed (including Gandhi), flogged, or even shot, for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration cards, or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg The Trans vaal government promulgates a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian population, at a mass protest meeting Gandhi adopts his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest |
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