Process Of Non-violent Protests ​
After attending law school in England and living in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India in 1915. From then until a Hindu extremist assassinated him in 1948, Gandhi unrelentingly pursued his passion for a non-violent Indian independence, gained from the emotional and mental strength of the Indian people, not just their brute force. Gandhi focused on Satyagraha, the force contained in love and truth, in his protest movement.
Salt Mining
Since the British prohibited Indians from harvesting salt, Gandhi and his followers harvested salt in protestation during the year 1930. After marching 24o miles from Sabarmati to Dandi, a 23 day long journey, Gandhi and his followers reached the coast on April 5th. There, Gandhi offered a speech and lead prayers, breaking the law as he picked up salt and rubbed it between his fingers. Fellow protesters walked along the coast rubbing salt between their fingers for the rest of the day. In May, Gandhi was arrested for his crimes and joined other protesters in prison.
Fasting
The Untouchables of the Hindu Caste System wanted to start their own, separate electorate in 1932. Gandhi was vehemently opposed. He felt that having separate electorates for separate social classes or religious faiths would allow the British to perpetuate strife along the divides in India so that they could more easily maintain colonial rule. To protest, Gandhi decided to fast until the leader of the Untouchables' rights movement, Ambedkar, got the number of seats he wanted in the newly forming Indian parliment. At 11:30 on September 2nd, 1932, Gandhi took his last meal. After three days, his blood pressure rose to dangerously high levels, and the Indians hurriedly started negotiations on the number of parliment seats. It took two days more for negotiations to succeed, but Gandhi and Ambedkar finally got parliment to agree to give at least 147 seats to Untouchables on September 25th, 1932. The next day Gandhi broke his fast by drinking a glass of juice, having given much more extensive rights to an under-represented portion of Indian society through non-violent means.
Media
Though Gandhi didn't control the reaction of the media or the international community, both helped to put pressure on the British to stop opressing the Indians. Certainly, media forms such as the telegraph helped to show how the British were brutally oppressing the peaceful Indian protestors.
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This clip comes from the movie Gandhi, which is fictional but is historically based in reality. It shows what the non-violent protests that Gandhi inspired would have looked like when they met the force of the British. ​
3.) Source of information about salt mining-- http//thenagain.info/webchron/India/SaltMarch.html​
4.) Source of information about fasting-- http//www.mkgandhi.org/articles/epic_fast.htm​