Thursday, February 12, 2009

Film Lesson - "Gandhi"

Gandhi was faithful follower of his nonviolent "attack" on the British government. His method was known as Civil Disobedience; the act of disobeying a law or rule but in an orderly manner. This civil disobedience was used to make the British rule look unjust and cruel. In one instance of when Gandhi and his followers were marching toward the Salt works, a factory meant to break down the salt into a usable form, which was collecting indian salt and placing a british tax on them. The men who simply marched into the line of soldiers waiting to attack them with the butt of their rifles. The indians fell by the dozens without even raising a finger in resistance from the british attack.

Though Gandhi aided India in achieving it's independance, in time they would've won their independance through war. Right after the events of WWII the British wouldn't have been ready for another attack, especially one that of which couldn't recieve reinforcements. The British soldiers in India would have eventually lost, though it would've been a bloody revolution, like most, the indian people would still have won their freedom.

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