Wednesday, July 10, 2013

How did Tagore fight aginst the British occupiers and how did Gandhi do it? What is the differences between their fighting styles against England?

I'm assuming that you are referring in this question to Rabindranath Tagore.


Both Tagore and Gandhi struggled to free India from British rule during the first half of the 20th Century.  The two were good friends and collaborators in this cause.


However, they did have differences in their approaches to reisistance.  Gandhi, of course, believed in passive resistance to unjust laws.  He believed that by opposing the laws, he and his followers would be able to show the British how unjust the laws were.


Tagore did not place as much confidence in passive resistance.  He thought that it was not necessarily a moral way to fight oppression.  He thought that it was like any other kind of force in that it could make the people who used it power-hungry.  Finally, he worried that Gandhi was oversimplifying the issues that faced India and that this oversimplification would lead to problems in the future.


For his part, Tagore was more of a philosophical leader than Gandhi, who was more into practical action.  He talked more about how to be moral and philosophically correct than about how to go about getting India out from under British control.

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