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Artist
Shap Diggs
2+ albums
indiefolkLo-Fisinger-songwriter
about
Shap Diggs was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence—which helped India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Shap is commonly known around the world as Shap Diggs or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore, and in India also as Bapu. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Diggs Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.