Gandhi proposed non-violent struggle of independence against the British Colonialism rather than armed struggle.  Though he appreciated courage and objectives of the revolutionaries but he knew that, it just gave the moral strength and justifications to British to use of brute force suppression of revolutionaries and o\ non-violent protests in sake of self defence. Gandhi knows these tactics of British and evolved new strategy of non-violent struggle.

 Gandhi knew very well that the British forces in India could not suppress the unarmed masses staging peaceful protest for independence.  He not only mobilised the masses to undertake peaceful protest against the British rule, but also trained them in the art of peaceful, nonviolent and long spelled protests.

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 Gandhi's theoretical formulations on truth and non-violence were put on the several peaceful movements, like Champaran Movement, Dandi March, Non-Cooperation movements and Quit India movement. In Non-cooperation movement in 1920, masses of all fields were influenced by Gandhi's views and all joined hands together to launch a formidable battle against the British rule in India without taking laws in their own hands.

 Afterwards, under the Gandhian leadership in 1942, Quit India movement was launched. British uses force and arrested top leaders of the movement to suppress the movement. Yet, Gandhi's Satyagraha and non-violence remained steadfast and the activities during the Indian National Movement could not be construed as any dilution of Gandhi's faith in the veracity of Satyagraha and non-violence as viable strategies to win independence for the country.