In a gentle way, you can shake the world- Mahatma Gandhi. Social movements usually are one of the basic social forms where a variety of organized and coordinated people work together to support a goal, typically a modification within the societys values or structure, or to induce social modification. Social movements come in different sizes, however, they’re essentially collective and have a group of different people who fight for their rights. In India, there were lots of social movements that happened when England ruled over India. Most of the social movements were conducted by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. People usually called him Mahatma Gandhi. He was born in Porbandar, India on October 2nd, 1869. He was married in his early age when he was just 13 years old, He did his higher studies in London (law) became a lawyer, and moved his law practice from London to South Africa. He was not an activist or a reformer, he believed in nonviolence and peace but when he heard about his own country he started a nonviolence moment from South Africa and people joined hands and lat
er on, this movement became a great social movement that was given a name satyagraha. The word satyagraha means truth and nonviolence. It was a great social moment in which lots of people joined to free the country from the whites and to remove the racism among caste, color, and sex. Indians are scolded based on their color by the white people, they are treated unfairly and treated as a slave in their own country. They were treated very unfairly, racism became the biggest problem at that time. This essay will describe how Mahatma Gandhi achieved success with the help of the general public and got their rights by using nonviolence and peace got the proper education to the children and equal voting rights to everyone and no more racism based on color and sex. The movement was started in 1896 in South Africa by Mahatma Gandhi, it spread very fast and soon it became a huge movement among the people. Everyone joined and united to fight for their rights because no one wanted to live a life like a slave under the whites, everyone wanted their right back and freedom from slavery.