Louis Fischer
Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 3 "Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement"
Meaning
Louis Fischer was an American journalist who wrote a well-known life of Gandhi, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. NCERT quotes him to explain why the Non-Cooperation Movement mattered. In his view, non-cooperation was more than a protest. It also trained Indians to rule themselves.
Example
Fischer wrote that "non-cooperation became the name of an epoch" in the life of India and of Gandhi. He said it was "negative enough to be peaceful but positive enough to be effective". It meant self-denial and self-discipline, and it was "training for self-rule". He was speaking of the movement of 1920–22, when students, lawyers and others left British institutions.
Don't confuse with
- Shahid Amin: a historian who studied the popular rumours and beliefs about "Gandhi as Mahatma" in eastern UP in 1921. Fischer was a journalist who wrote a biography of Gandhi.
Related concepts
- Hind Swaraj
- Swaraj
- Khilafat movement
- Ali brothers
- Caliphate
- Jazirat-ul-Arab
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- Calcutta special session 1920
- Nagpur session 1920
- Non-cooperation movement