Gandhi's movement of nonviolent resistance was a form of civil disobedience.​

Nonviolent Resistance

A method of protest or activism that rejects the use of physical force, relying instead on various forms of peaceful demonstration to achieve goals.

Civil Disobedience

is the act of refusing to comply with certain laws, demands, or commands of a government or occupying power, typically in a nonviolent form, as a form of political protest.

Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who led the campaign for India's independence from British rule through nonviolent resistance.