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The 76 pages that link to Mahatma Gandhi, each with the reason it gives.

• Civil disobedienceRelated: His satyagraha campaigns made disciplined, public lawbreaking a method of collective struggle.

• British EmpireRelated: His campaigns helped make Indian independence a mass political movement.

• Nonviolent resistanceRelated: His campaigns helped establish mass noncooperation as a prominent strategy against colonial authority.

• British RajRelated: His campaigns made opposition to the Raj a broad popular movement.

• Indian independence movementRelated: His organizing and satyagraha shaped the movement's largest campaigns.

• Indian National CongressRelated: His campaigns reshaped Congress strategy and brought millions into anti-colonial politics.

• Jawaharlal NehruRelated: Gandhi became Nehru’s mentor and a powerful influence on his political development.

• Leo TolstoyRelated: Gandhi credited Tolstoy’s writings with shaping his understanding of nonviolent resistance.

• Rabindranath TagoreRelated: Tagore and Gandhi exchanged ideas while disagreeing over nationalism and political methods.

• Nobel Prize controversiesRelated: His repeated nominations and lack of an award drew criticism of the Peace Prize’s choices.

• Bhagavad GitaRelated: His interpretation treated the battlefield as a metaphor for moral struggle.

• Direct actionRelated: His campaigns developed organized noncooperation into a strategy for confronting imperial authority.

• Anti-imperialismBroader topic: His campaigns made nonviolent noncooperation a prominent anti-colonial strategy.

• South AsiaRelated: His campaigns shaped independence politics and inspired movements well beyond South Asia.

• B. R. AmbedkarCompared with: Their conflict over separate electorates for the Depressed Classes shaped negotiations at the 1932 Poona Pact.

• Frantz FanonCompared with: Gandhi’s strategy offers a prominent alternative to Fanon’s analysis of revolutionary violence.

• Muhammad Ali JinnahCompared with: Jinnah’s constitutional politics and insistence on Muslim political representation differed from Gandhi’s approach to national unity.

• AhimsaRelated: He drew on ahimsa while adapting it into a public method of struggle.

• A ConfessionRelated: Gandhi drew on Tolstoy’s later writings, which grew from the spiritual search described here.

• Henry David ThoreauRelated: Gandhi cited Thoreau’s essay as an influence on his thinking about civil resistance.

• Charismatic authorityBroader topic: His moral authority and personal example attracted devotion beyond formal political office.

• Indian independenceRelated: His campaigns made nonviolent civil disobedience a defining movement tactic.

• Quit India MovementRelated: He proposed the Quit India campaign and gave it the “Do or Die” exhortation.

• Subhas Chandra BoseCompared with: Bose broke with Gandhi over strategy, especially the role of nonviolence and armed resistance.

• Swami VivekanandaRelated: Gandhi later credited Vivekananda with deepening his understanding of Hinduism and national identity.

• Non-cooperation movementRelated: Gandhi designed the campaign’s strategy and called for its suspension after Chauri Chaura.

• Anti-colonialismRelated: His strategy showed how disciplined mass action could challenge an empire.

• Salt MarchRelated: He planned the march, led its journey, and made salt at Dandi.

• NonviolenceRelated: He developed satyagraha and demonstrated its use against British rule.

• Peace movementRelated: His campaigns became a major model for peace activists seeking political change without armed struggle.

• GujaratRelated: He was born in Porbandar and led major campaigns from Gujarat, including the Salt March.

• Colony of NatalRelated: His early political activism developed amid discrimination against Indians in Natal.

• Rashtriya Swayamsevak SanghCompared with: Gandhi’s political vision contrasts with the RSS’s Hindu-centered account of Indian nationhood.

• SatyagrahaRelated: Gandhi named, developed, and led the best-known satyagraha campaigns.

• Appropriate technologyRelated: Gandhi’s emphasis on village production and local autonomy influenced later technology debates.

• Vallabhbhai PatelRelated: Gandhi drew Patel into national politics and remained his central political influence.

• Annie BesantCompared with: Gandhi’s mass civil disobedience later displaced the constitutional Home Rule strategy Besant had promoted.

• ColonizationRelated: His organizing helped turn opposition to colonial rule into a mass independence movement.

• National heroBroader topic: India's national memory associates him with independence and nonviolent resistance.

• ProtestRelated: His methods linked mass protest with disciplined nonviolence and anticolonial politics.

• Bal Gangadhar TilakRelated: Gandhi inherited a mass-politics landscape that Tilak helped create, though their methods differed.

• Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanRelated: Radhakrishnan interpreted Gandhi's religious and ethical ideas in his writings.

• UntouchabilityRelated: Gandhi’s campaigns opposed untouchability, while his disagreements with Ambedkar exposed competing strategies.

• C. RajagopalachariRelated: Rajaji became a close associate of Gandhi and helped carry his campaigns into South India.

• DurbanRelated: Gandhi lived and worked in Natal, where his political activism began among Indian residents.

• Legal reformRelated: His campaigns challenged colonial laws and helped build pressure for political and legal change.

• Margaret Bourke-WhiteRelated: Her 1946 portrait showed Gandhi beside his spinning wheel, linking her work to India’s independence struggle.

• Rajendra PrasadRelated: Gandhi’s Champaran campaign drew Prasad into organized satyagraha and shaped his political work.

• Richard AttenboroughBroader topic: The directing achievement that brought Attenborough the Academy Award for Best Director.

• South Asian diasporaRelated: His South African experience connected migration, racial hierarchy, and anticolonial politics.