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
Satyagraha is the opposite of the idea that a human being can be made into property by someone else’s laws, or guns, or prejudice.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Sakshi Malik has not hesitated to compare their marches with those of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent anti-colonialism, labeling their struggle as a form of satyagraha.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2023
The march ignited a major campaign of civil disobedience, and focused international attention on Gandhi and his advocacy of satyagraha, or nonviolent resistance.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
For Indians resisting the British, satyagraha took the form of passive, nonviolent resistance to the injustice perpetrated by India’s colonial invaders.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The aim of satyagraha was to arouse the conscience of oppressors and invigorate their victims with a sense of moral agency.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
When the party voted to approve the "Quit India" resolution, demanding immediate independence and launching a satyagraha civil-disobedience campaign in support of that goal, the British responded by going after Gandhi.
From Time ● Aug. 9, 2017
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