LOS ANGELES, CA.- A February 1920 Gandhi letter emphasizing
peaceful tactics against the British will be auctioned at Nate
D. Sanders Tuesday October 11, 2011 auction. Gandhi's Satyagraha
movement encouraged indigenous Indians to resist the British
occupation by using peaceful non-violent means and complimented
the emerging nationalist Swaraj movement for Indian self-rule.
Just months after Gandhis letter, the Indian National Congress
voted to accept Swaraj in September 1920. The letter signed by
Mahatma Gandhi dated 24 February 1920 from the Sabarmati Ashram
deals directly with satyagraha, Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolence
methods of resistance, and the relationship between the British
and India. The satyagraha non-cooperation movement led by Gandhi
encouraged Indians to resist British occupation using nonviolent
means, such as refusing to buy British goods. It went hand in
hand with swaraj, the growing movement for Indian self rule.
This letter, to Edmund Candler, the Director of Publicity for
the Punjab, fo