We have included Gandhiji’s book entitled Satyagraha in South Africa in the
Selected Works because of the great significance that ‘passive resistance’ or
Satyagraha has assumed in recent years in different parts of the world. Dr.
Martin Luther King, the great American Negro leader, was an ardent follower of
Mahatma Gandhi, and his movement for civil liberties in the United States was
largely modeled on the Satyagraha pattern. Recent events in Czechoslovakia
also indicate that non-violent non-co-operation and ‘passive resistance’ could
be a potent instrument in facing even external aggression. Satyagraha is now
being regarded by several thinkers in Western countries as ‘a moral equivalent
of war’.
Gandhiji originally wrote his experiences of Satyagraha in South Africa in great
detail in Gujarati, and the first English edition of the book was published in
1928. It has gone into several editions since then. It is hoped that the book will
prove to be of absorbing interest to all those who are deeply interested in the
Gandhian technique of Satyagraha as a powerful ‘weapon’ for counteracting
social, economic and political injustice and violent suppression of individual
and national freedom. As Gandhiji himself observed in the concluding chapter
of this publication, “Satyagraha is a priceless and matchless weapon, and that
those who wield it are strangers to disappointment or defeat.”
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