the policy of nonviolent resistance adopted by Mahatma Gandhi from about 1919 to oppose British rule in India
any movement of nonviolent resistance
1915–20; < Hindi, equivalent to Sanskrit satya truth + āgraha strong attachment, persistence
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It was on a ministry mission to India in the ’50s that Lawson learned about Satyagraha, the method of resistance through nonviolence, developed by Mahatma Gandhi.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2020
Satyagraha LA Opera stages the Philip Glass opera about Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi as a young attorney in turn-of-the-last-century South Africa; Grant Gershon conducts.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2018
Satyagraha, which presumed a basic commitment to dialogue on all sides, was likely to be impotent against Nazism or any other genocidal ideology.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
When all the elements and the singers are balanced, like in the superb Carsen Onegin, or the recent Satyagraha, we are in for true magic.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017
While the goal of violence is to defeat and vanquish the enemy, the goal of Satyagraha is to convince or convert the opponent.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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