LOS ANGELES, CA.- A February 1920 Gandhi letter emphasizing peaceful tactics against the British will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday October 11, 2011 auction. Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement encouraged indigenous Indians to resist the British occupation by using peaceful non-violent means and complimented the emerging nationalist Swaraj movement for Indian self-rule. Just months after Gandhi’s letter, the Indian National Congress voted to accept Swaraj in September 1920. The letter signed by Mahatma Gandhi dated 24 February 1920 from the Sabarmati Ashram deals directly with satyagraha, Gandhi’s doctrine of nonviolence methods of resistance, and the relationship between the British and India. The satyagraha non-cooperation movement led by Gandhi encouraged Indians to resist British occupation using nonviolent means, such as refusing to buy British goods. It went hand in hand