IAFS 1000 Gandhi and Nonviolent Resistance in South Asia.
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IAFS 1000
Gandhi andNonviolent Resistance
in South Asia
Announcement
• China Town Hall: location TBD
Brendon’sRome-Britain Analogy
• Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)
• Imperial decline
• Lessons for US?
Outline
• Early South Asian nationalism
• Gandhi as nationalist leader
• Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre
Early Indian Nationalism
• 1885: Indian National Congress (INC) established
• 1906: Formation of Muslim League
• post-WWI: Khilafat movement (protection of Ottoman sultan/caliph)
Emergence of Gandhi(1869-1948)
• London-trained lawyer
• 1893-1915: South Africa
• Satyagraha [soul-force or truth-force]: non-violent resistance
• 1915: return to India
http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/gphotgallery/1915-1932/images/a98.jpg
Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre (Amritsar, Punjab)
• April 13, 1919: killing of unarmed demonstrators
• Indian protests
• 1920: Gandhi leader of INC
• 1924: Khilafat collapse
• 1930s non-cooperation campaign
– Proved Gandhi’s leadership
– Alienated some Muslims
Gandhi’s Use of ClothingThe London dandy (1890);
in South Africa (1900, 1913);
in loincloth (1942)1
[1] www.progress.org/Gandhi; www.askasia.org/frclasrm/lessplan/l000079.htm