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The early 20th century witnessed the effort of the intellectuals across the globe having paid the brunt of a world war that took the lives of millions. The carnage of the First World War made President Woodrow Wilson to propose that power politics be replaced by policies based on justice and democracy. However, the concern was more specifically on how to use military means to defend a social order, guard against potential dangers, or gain advantages over actual or potential adversaries. The coercive means ,yet a matter of consideration despite the huge score of human loss. In this way , power is more than just a symbol but is the real source of mutual relations . Civil resistance which has occurred in various forms throughout history, has become particularly prominent being a viable means to check the arbitrary use of coercion by the authority or political administration .An important figure who withstood the aggressive policies of the dominant fascist regime in Italy, is Antonio Gramsci. He is a Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer and politician. He was a leading and a founding member andleader of the Communist Party of Italy . He was imprisoned by the Fascist regime. The central issues raised in his Prison Notebooks and in other writings such as his Prison Letters include hegemony, common sense, civil society, subaltern studies, cultural analysis, media and film studies, postcolonial studies, international relations, linguistics, cultural anthropology, and historiography. Gramsci was sympathetic towards theoppressed groups within the society who had to succumb to the miseries owing to the unilateral policies of the dominant administration . Sardinian peasants and minerswho were always illtreated by the mainlanders grasped the attention of Gramsci and he took up their cause as an activist.He was an original thinker within the Marxist framework, was known for his ideas concerning the role of civil society between the economic base and the ideological superstructure of societies. He is also renowned for his theorization of the importance of cultural hegemony as a non-coercive means of maintaining dominance in societies. The chapter highlights on the contemporary relevance of non-violent ,civil resistance movements of the civil society for transformation, as Gramsci is known for today.Antonio Gramsci is widely known even in the 21st century for hisimpact on social and political thought, critical theory and literary methodology also as a theoretician and an educationist of the middle and working class . Although he wrote in the 20thcentury , the interpretations of Gramsci's work do provide a link to socio political issues of our contemporary time ,for though the context differ, the content of the issue continue to remain the same. Thus co-walking with Gramsci in our times is of much importance for suggesting vital measures for settling legal and socio-political, historical controversies and for answering normative questions on civil society and political administration .