In his perceptive reading of Mahatma Gandhi’s psychological evolution, the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson wrote in 1969 that Gandhi’s experiences during the mill workers’ strike in Ahmedabad in 1918 was the ‘Event’…………………………………………………………………………………..— was formed. It was during this period of prolonged agitation that Gandhi began to think of Satyagraha as the political actualisation of dharma. He began to use fasting as a political tool and arrived upon ideas based on “radical factualness, obsessive punctuality, and an absolute responsibility”.