noun (sometimes lowercase)
- (in India) the policy of passive resistance inaugurated by Mohandas Gandhi in 1919 as a method of gaining political and social reforms.
noun
- the policy of nonviolent resistance adopted by Mahatma Gandhi from about 1919 to oppose British rule in India
- any movement of nonviolent resistance
n.Indian form of passive resistance, 1920, in writings of M.K. Gandhi, from Sanskrit satyagraha “insistence on truth,” from satya “truth, truthfulness” (from sat- “existing, true, virtuous,” from PIE *es- “to be;” see essence) + agraha “pertinacity,” from PIE *ghrebh- “to seize, reach” (see grab (v.)).