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Describe the role of Gandhiji as a social reformer and as a Political leader.
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Solution
Gandhiji was both a social reformer as well as a political leader. We can understand this by the following points :
Gandhiji as social reformer: Mahatma Gandhi was a Charkha worker who promoted the use of Khadi cloth. The common people of India saw Gandhiji as a miraculous and spiritual figure endowed with divine powers. He used to have a soft spot in his heart for untouchables, whom he referred to as harijans. He fought for their rights and raised concerns about their exploitation in society.
Gandhiji as political reformers: Gandhiji stated in his famous speech at BHU that the Indian independence movement should be made into a mass movement in which all sections of society participate actively. He advocated for peasants in several places.
- Mahatma Gandhi was to spend much of 1917 in Champaran, seeking to obtain for the peasants security of tenure as well as the freedom to cultivate the crops of their choice.
- In 1918, Gandhiji addressed the concerns of cotton mill workers in Ahmedabad.
- Then he joined peasants in Kheda in asking the state for the remission of taxes following the failure of their harvest.
- Gandhiji also launched a number of mass movements, such as the Non-Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement, and Quit India Movement, which helped to popularise the freedom struggle.
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On 5 April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi spoke at Dandi: When I left Sabarmati with my companions for this seaside hamlet of Dandi, I was not certain in my mind that we would be allowed to reach this place. Even while I was at Sabarmati there was a rumour that I might be arrested. I had thought that the Government might perhaps let my party come as far as Dandi, but not me certainly. If someone says that this betrays imperfect faith on my part, I shall not deny the charge. That I have reached here is in no small measure due to the power of peace and non-violence: that power is universally felt. The Government may, if it wishes, congratulate itself on acting as it has done, for it could have arrested every one of us. In saying that it did not have the courage to arrest this army of peace, we praise it. It felt ashamed to arrest such an army. He is a civilized man who feels ashamed to do anything which his neighbours would disapprove of. The Government deserves to be congratulated on not arresting us, even if it desisted only from fear of world opinion. Tomorrow we shall break the salt tax law. Whether the Government will tolerate that is a different question. It may not tolerate it, but it deserves congratulation for the patience and forbearance it has displayed in regard to this party. What if I and all the eminent leaders in Gujarat and in the rest of the country are arrested? This movement is based on the faith that when a whole nation is roused and on the march no leader is necessary.
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