The individual Satyagraha of Gandhiji was the direct result of which event?

The correct answer is 2 i.e. August Offer.

Individual Satyagraha:

• Individual Satyagraha was a direct result of August Offer.
• August's offer was brought during a significant period of war by the British in 1940. Both Congress and the Muslim League rejected August Offer.
• Congress wished to launch the Civil disobedience Movement, but Gandhi saw the environment against such a movement, he didn’t want to thwart the war efforts.
• However, Congress Socialist leaders and All India Kisan Sabha were in favour of direct struggle.
• Gandhi was assured that the British would not modify their policy towards India. He decided to launch an Individual Satyagraha.
• Vinobha Bhave was first and Nehru was second to offer Satyagraha, by May 1941, 25000, people had been condemned for Satyagraha.
• Though the aim of Satyagraha was limited, it was successful in displaying unity and patience in the masses of India.
• This Satyagraha forced to usher in the Cripps Proposal which was very different from August's offer as it provided a way for Constituent Assembly and an option to any Province to withdraw – “a blueprint for India’s partition”.

Aim of the movement:

• To show that nationalist patience was not due to weakness.
• To express people’s feelings that they are not interested in the war and that they are not interested in the battle for supremacy between Nazism and double autocracy that ruled in India.
• To give another chance to the Government to accept Congress' demands peacefully.
• The demand of the Satyagrahi was using freedom of speech against the war through an anti-war declaration.
• If the government did not seize the Satyagrahi, he or she would keep repeating it in the villages and start a march towards Delhi (“Delhi Chalo Movement”).