Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.9

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Other writers, like Kaka Kalelkar⁸ and R. Payne⁹ though visualising some link which Gandhiji’s non-cooperation and civil disobedience had with India’s antiquity, nevertheless feel, as Kalelkar does, that it was ‘a unique contribution of Mahatma Gandhi to the world community.’ Kalelkar, however, does visualise the possibility that the practices of *traga* (Kaka Kalelkar incidentally appears to be the only modern writer aware of the practice of *traga*.), *dharna*, and *baharvatiya*, prevailing in Gandhiji’s home area, Saurashtra, may have ‘influenced the Mahatma’s mind.’¹⁰