Non-violence Resistance Non-violent resistance played a major role in India's struggle for independence. There were other people that used this but one person that sticks out in most people's minds is Gandhi. If Gandhi had used another form of fighting back, He probably would have been killed and wouldn't have been able to help lead India to independence. Non-violence resistance is when people do not use violence to resist something such as the government. Instead …showed first 75 words of 839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 839 total…by non-violence resistance, he was shot and killed by a Hindu man named Nathuram Godse while he was holding a prayer. Gandhi was a very powerful man in the fight for Indian independence and without him; India wouldn't have been able to gain independence without a lot of violence. <Tab/> I got a 50/50 on this essay and my teacher is also going to use it as an example for next year.