Ghandi was raised in a very conservative family. I believe the reason for why he was non-violent was because of his conservative beliefs. He encouraged Indians to boycott British goods and buy Indian goods instead. This helped by weakening British economy in the country. Ghandi believed that acts of violence would cause more negative conflicts. An example from the movie is when ghandi was thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg, after refusing to move from the first class to a third class coach while holding a valid first class ticket. He did not verbally or physically fight back with the officers who escort him off the train.
He first used non-violent civil disobedience as an withdrawing lawyer in South Africa, in the resident of Indian's community's struggle for civil rights. Ghandi led nationwide campaigns for expanding women's rights, for easing poverty, for building religious and ethnic friendship, for increasing economic self-reliance, but most important, for achieving the independence of India from foreign domination. He was imprisoned for numerous of times, in both South Africa and India, but he never gave up. After studying law in London, he returned to South Africa in 1907. He took part in many passive protests against the Tramsval government's treatment of Indian settlers. In 1915, Ghandi returned to India and became known as one of the party's leaders in Congress movement.
I think that India's independence was all about Ghandi because he inspired a lot of people. To achieve anything, you must take action. India gained its independence because of Ghandi actions. If he hadn't done the things he did, maybe no one would have been able to lead India to freedom and Britain might have still dominate India today. India became independent in early August of 1947.
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