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A 3 page essay that examines Louis Fischer's anthology of Gandhi's writings, The Essential Gandhi, in order to analyze Gandhi's conception of non-cooperation and civil disobedience as tools for obtaining Indian independence from Great Britain. No additional sources cited.
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three hundred and fifteen million Indians (Fischer 158). The question for Gandhi was how to approach the problem of obtaining independence from Great Britain and establishing self-government in India.
His solution was ingenious as it completely sidestepped the issue of British superior military strength. Gandhi proposed a non-violent campaign of non-cooperation. In other words, Gandhi realized that the imposition
of colonial rule, in order to be successful, required the cooperation of the governed. By denying the British that cooperation, Gandhi forced the issue of self-rule. In 1920, Gandhi
wrote in the newspaper Young India that "brute force is the only test the west has hitherto recognized" (Fischer 158). Therefore, Gandhi realized that India would "either learn the art
of war, which the British will not teach her," or pursue another path (Fischer 158). Gandhi felt that India should "follow her own way of discipline and self-sacrifice through Non-Cooperation"
(Fischer 158). By this, Gandhi meant that the British ruled not only by the force of brute military power, but also by enlisting the cooperation of native population, "in a
thousand ways," which served to continuously make the Indians "more and more helpless and dependent on them" (Fischer 158). Gandhi felt that British reforms, such as reform councils, additional law
courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158). He argued that the British wanted Indias wealth and its considerable
labor and if the country denied them these features than self-rule could be achieved. Non-cooperation took various forms. The world today thinks of Gandhi has a thin, balding man
with glasses wearing only a loincloth. This manner of dress, in itself, was a highly political statement and derived from Gandhis principles of non-violent protest. At a rally, Gandhi asked
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