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The Story of My Experiments with Truth Part 4, Chapter 26 Summary

The Birth of Satyagraha

  • Gandhi reveals the origin of the term "Satyagraha." The phrase "passive resistance" wasn't doing the job—seems to us like it sounded too much like "passive-aggressive"—so he organized a contest for a new word.
  • Maganlal Gandhi comes up with "Sadagraha," meaning truth and firmness, and Gandhi tinkers with it a little until it is "Satyagraha."
  • He points readers to his book on the Satyagraha struggle in South Africa for more info on the term and its history.