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The same Gandhiji who withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement on the issue of violence at Chauri-Chaura, refused to condemn people’s violence during the Quit India Movement. Do you think that he was losing faith in the efficacy of non-violence and was willing to deviate from this path? Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

Gandhiji's apparently contradictory responses to popular violence — instant withdrawal in 1922 versus conspicuous silence in 1942 — invite the question of whether his commitment to non-violence itself weakened over two decades of struggle.

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  • Chauri Chaura and the Logic of Withdrawal (1922)
  • Quit India and the Refusal to Condemn (1942)
  • Was This a Loss of Faith in Non-Violence?

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