Hunger strike

A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change.

Mahatma Gandhi

In 1922, 1930, 1933 and 1942 Mahatma Gandhi was sent to prison. The British authorities could not let him die as Gandhi was very well known and Britain’s reputation would have suffered. Gandhi would not martyr himself without reason. He knew how to sacrifice in ways which had political value.

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Mahatma Gandhi - British

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Mohandas Gandhi engaged in two famous hunger strikes. The first protested British rule of India; the second, autocratic rule in the newly independent India.

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British - India - Autocratic

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