Who wrote the following statement: "Non-cooperation became the name of an epoch in the life of India and of Gandhiji. Non-cooperation was negative enough to be peaceful and positive enough to be effective. It entailed denial, renunciation, and self-discipline. It was training for self-rule."?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Louis Fischer
These lines on Non-cooperation were written by Louis Fischer, Mahatma Gandhi’s American biographer.
NCERT (2025-26): “2.1 Knitting a popular movement … Peasants, workers, and others interpreted and acted upon the call to ‘non-cooperate’ with colonial rule in ways that best suited their interests, rather than conform to the dictates laid down from above. ‘Non-cooperation,’ wrote Mahatma Gandhi’s American biographer Louis Fischer, ‘became the name of an epoch in the life of India and of Gandhiji. Non-cooperation was negative enough to be peaceful but positive enough to be effective. It entailed denial, renunciation, and self-discipline. It was training for self-rule.’ As a consequence of the Non-Cooperation Movement the British Raj was shaken to its foundations for the first time since the Revolt of 1857.…” |