[suht-yuh-gruh-huh, suh
t-yah-gruh-] 
) | (in India) the policy of passive resistance inaugurated by Mohandas Gandhi in 1919 as a method of gaining political and social reforms. |
| Sa·tya·gra·ha (sə-tyä'grə-hə, sŭt'yə-grŭ'hə) n. The policy of nonviolent resistance developed by Mahatma Gandhi as a means of pressing for political reform in South Africa and India. [Sanskrit satyāgrahaḥ : satyam, truth (from sat-, sant-, existing, true; see es- in Indo-European roots) + āgrahaḥ, determination, insistence (ā-, to + grahaḥ, act of seizing from gṛhṇāti, he seizes; see ghrebh-1 in Indo-European roots).] |