Gandhi's main strategy to win independence from Britain was peaceful, passive resistance. At the start of Gandhi's career, his campaigns were described as a non-violent mass action or "passive resistance" He proposed the main ways in which nonviolent mass action forces political and social change(1) changes hearts and minds; (2) hurts the pocketbook of those whose behavior it seeks to change; and (3) prevents those whose behavior it seeks to change from going about business as usual.
