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Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian general and revolutionary who led a successful military campaign to reunify Italy in the mid-1800s. The editor sees Garibaldi’s military tactics as a version of the reader’s extremist idea that Indians should achieve home rule by taking up arms and forcing the English out of India. The editor argues that Garibaldi’s revolution merely gave power to an Italian elite, without truly freeing the population from tyranny. From the editor’s perspective, this shows that Giuseppe Mazzini’s view of independence as moral autonomy or self-rule is a better goal for India.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi Character Timeline in Hind Swaraj
The timeline below shows where the character Giuseppe Garibaldi appears in Hind Swaraj. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 14: How can India become free?
...impossible and wants to remove the English with force. He suggests imitating the Italian revolutionaries Garibaldi and Mazzini.
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Chapter 15: Italy and India
The editor looks at the reader’s example of Garibaldi and Mazzini from Italy. The editor praises Mazzini for calling on individuals to morally improve...
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