No, he had an army of Indian peasants, who took up spinning their own cotton instead of purchasing it from British weavers. Mass action at its finest. (Now, I will admit that Gandhi has been glorified, but not because he sought to kill anyone.)

Keyboard soldiering is nice. It's all I can afford to do. But it is still a bit like putting on a uniform and striking a pose for the mirror. At some point, it has to get real, with real speaking, real venues, and real people...and getting real attention from the Powers that Be.