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unusual facts about satyagraha



Daniel Dantas

Dantas was arrested twice by Protógenes Queiroz, police officer who investigated Daniel Dantas on Operation Satyagraha, in early July 2008, but each time released almost immediately.

Daridra Narayana

He mainly preached about Satyagraha and Ahimsa but also pleaded for these poor people, the Daridra Naraynas.

Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale

He participated and led Ankalkhop, Audumber, and Bhilwadi in Tasgaon morcha (March on Tasgaon Tashil) on 3 September 1942 and Islampur morcha on 8 September 1942 in Satyagraha.

Gandhi Maidan

The pedestal includes inscriptions and images highlighting milestones in Gandhi's life including the Dandi March in 1930, Quit India Movement in 1942, Champaran Satyagraha in 1917, and an image of Charkha symbolizing the call for self-rule by the Father of the Nation.

Jagdish Chandra Jain

When Mahatma Gandhi launched the Satyagraha movement in 1930, Jagdish Chandra left his studies and joined the movement.

Leigh Warren

He choreographed and directed the Portrait Trilogy of operas by Philip Glass (Akhnaten (2002), Einstein on the Beach (2006) and Satyagraha (2007)) performed by LWD, the Adelaide Vocal Project and the State Opera of South Australia.

Leo Goeke

He was also lauded for his portrayal of Gandhi I in Philip GlassSatyagraha which he performed in a production staged by Achim Freyer at the Stuttgart Opera in 1983.

Nationalist Movements in India

The Salt Satyagraha was started by Mahatma Gandhi on 12 March 1930 from Sabarmati Ashram to 5 April until Dandi where he manufactured Salt, broke the Salt Law and started a nationwide Civil disobedience

S. B. Patel

He was born in the Kheda district of Gujarat in India and had worked with Gandhi when he initiated satyagraha in Kaira District, in 1918, to secure suspension of revenue assessment on failure of crops, then went to Rangoon and London.

Saharsa

The district of Saharsa played an important part in the Annie Besant in 1917 and Satyagraha Movement of Mahatma Gandhi in 1921 received widespread support in the district.

Salt March

In Peshawar, satyagraha was led by a Muslim Pashto disciple of Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan, who had trained 50,000 nonviolent activists called Khudai Khidmatgar.

Tanguturi Prakasam

He visited Punjab during Akali Satyagraha and the Hindu-Muslim riots in Multan.

Urmila Pawar

She mentions in her autobiography Aaidan that her father neither participated in the Mahad satyagraha organised by Ambedkar nor inter-dining arranged by Savarkar, though her elder sister Shantiakka she recalls often missed school to attend the inter-dining lured by sweet delicacies served there.

Willemina Ogterop

She donated three works of art to India, two of which can be found on public display: the woodcarving "Satyagraha" in the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi and a stained glass plaque depicting a poem in Sanskrit by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, which is in the Tagore Museum at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, Bolpur, West Bengal, India.


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