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First penitential fast [3] 2 1914 (February) 1 day [4] Phoenix, South Africa A Phoenix teacher had violated Ashram rules by eating pakodas with some students but denied it. Gandhi began an indefinite fast of atonement. [5] She confessed a day later. Gandhi ended the fast. 3 1914 (2 May – 16 May) [6] 14 days Phoenix, South Africa Second ...
After the Second Round Table Conference, British government agreed to give Communal Award to the depressed classes on the request of B. R. Ambedkar.Gandhi opposed the government's decision which he considered it would divide the Hindu society and subsequently went on to the indefinite fast in Yerwada Jail.
During his 1932 imprisonment, which started after his arrest in January 1932, Gandhi went on an indefinite fast to protest against the Communal Award for depressed classes on 20 September 1932,. [9] He discontinued his fast after signing an agreement called the Poona Pact , with the leader of depressed classes, Dr. Ambedkar in the jail on 24 ...
Gandhi demanded that the Indian people stop all violence, stop all property destruction, and went on fast-to-death to pressure Indians to stop their rioting. [118] The massacre and Gandhi's non-violent response to it moved many, but also made some Sikhs and Hindus upset that Dyer was getting away with murder.
In a book written by then Secretary of External Affairs, T.N. Kaul and published in 1982, he mentioned that in 1969 Prime minister Indira Gandhi wanted to commence the process of formation of a separate state for Telangana by instructing Sri P.N. Haksur, her senior secretary in the PMO, but she had to withdraw at the last minute due to ...
The NFL world's obsession with the player movement market doesn't stay on the sidelines for long, even around the league's marquee event. Days before the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl 59 win ...
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Residents of DobrzeĊ Wielki, Poland, in 2017, protesting the planned incorporation of their community to the city of Opole. A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change.