It was one surprising Indian what defeated the British Empire, and released 350,000,000 Indian people.
He is Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who opposed his program of tolerance for all creeds and religion. The Indian people called Mahatma, meaning Great Soul.
He went to London in 1888 to train as a lawyer, leaving behind his young and illiterate wife, whom he had married when she was barely in her teens. Gandhi qualified as a barrister three years later and returned to India.When he goes back to his own country from South Africa, organize an Indian nation meeting with a nail, Chandra Bose in protest against a British law to discriminate against an Indian. The political activity is up to professional standard, too; was done, and was often arrested, and became the imprisonment of seven years. In 1930 the Mahatma proclaimed a new campaign of civil disobedience, and it called "The Salt Satyagraha",calling upon the Indian population to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. The campaign involved a march to the sea, in which thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea, where they made salt by evaporating sea water. This highly symbolic and defiant gesture proved very effective. Once more the Indian leader was arrested, but he was released in 1931,halting the campaign after the British made concessions to his demands.With Satyagraha called the grasp of the truth meant it, and, as for the real intention, was nonviolent resistance, and a fast, the strike of the worker, noncooperativity, disobedience, etc.. resistance movement were performed in demilitarization, nonviolence. In addition, his encouraged that he turned a spinning-wheel by oneself and wove rough cotton cloth to you and walked Indian each place with the public and performed a social activity. Thought and the action of Gandhi were accepted before long and led to independence movement.
Gandhi went to London to attend the Round Table Conference. On being invited by King, he went to Buckingham Palace in his usual dress. 1931, Gandhi represented the Indian National Congress at a conference in London. In 1932, Gandhi began new civil disobedience campaigns against the British. Two years later he formally resigned from politics, being replaced as leader of the Congress party by Jawaharlal Nehru, and travelled through India, teaching and promoting social reform.
He believed passionately in the unity of all the peoples of India, yet his failure to keep the Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah within the Indian National Congress's fold led to the partition of the country. For all his vaunted selflessness and modesty, he made no move to object when Jinnah was attacked during a Congress session for calling him "Mr. Gandhi" instead of "Mahatma," and booed off the stage by Gandhi's supporters. Later, his withdrawal, under pressure from Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, of a last-ditch offer to Jinnah of the prime ministership itself, ended the last faint chance of avoiding partition.
He was determined to live his life as an ascetic, but, as the poet Sarojini Naidu joked, it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhi living in poverty. His entire philosophy privileged the village way over that of the city, yet he was always financially dependent on the support of industrial billionaires like Birla. His hunger strikes could stop riots and massacres, but he also once went on a hunger strike to force one of his capitalist patrons' employees to break their strike against the harsh conditions of employment. As Ambedkar's star has risen among the Dalits, so Gandhi's stature has been reduced. Gandhi set out on his pilgrimage of peace in riot-wrecked Bengal to establish unity between the two sister-communities. His message was, "The cry of blood is barbarous."On January 30 at sunset hour, the perverse assassin of the ages lodged hot lead in the soft flesh of Mohandes K. Gandhi. His mind was concentrated on God and he merged in him. He had said, "if I am to die by the bullet of man I must do so smiling" He was the Victorious On in death as in life.
I think that "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps. Gandhi, who gave up cosmopolitanism to gain a country, has become, in his strange afterlife, a citizen of the world: his spirit may yet prove resilient, smart, tough, sneaky and, yes, ethical enough to avoid assimilation by global McCulture (and Mac culture too). Against this new empire, Gandhian intelligence is a better weapon than Gandhian piety. And passive resistance? We'll see.
He is Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who opposed his program of tolerance for all creeds and religion. The Indian people called Mahatma, meaning Great Soul.
He went to London in 1888 to train as a lawyer, leaving behind his young and illiterate wife, whom he had married when she was barely in her teens. Gandhi qualified as a barrister three years later and returned to India.When he goes back to his own country from South Africa, organize an Indian nation meeting with a nail, Chandra Bose in protest against a British law to discriminate against an Indian. The political activity is up to professional standard, too; was done, and was often arrested, and became the imprisonment of seven years. In 1930 the Mahatma proclaimed a new campaign of civil disobedience, and it called "The Salt Satyagraha",calling upon the Indian population to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. The campaign involved a march to the sea, in which thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea, where they made salt by evaporating sea water. This highly symbolic and defiant gesture proved very effective. Once more the Indian leader was arrested, but he was released in 1931,halting the campaign after the British made concessions to his demands.With Satyagraha called the grasp of the truth meant it, and, as for the real intention, was nonviolent resistance, and a fast, the strike of the worker, noncooperativity, disobedience, etc.. resistance movement were performed in demilitarization, nonviolence. In addition, his encouraged that he turned a spinning-wheel by oneself and wove rough cotton cloth to you and walked Indian each place with the public and performed a social activity. Thought and the action of Gandhi were accepted before long and led to independence movement.
Gandhi went to London to attend the Round Table Conference. On being invited by King, he went to Buckingham Palace in his usual dress. 1931, Gandhi represented the Indian National Congress at a conference in London. In 1932, Gandhi began new civil disobedience campaigns against the British. Two years later he formally resigned from politics, being replaced as leader of the Congress party by Jawaharlal Nehru, and travelled through India, teaching and promoting social reform.
He believed passionately in the unity of all the peoples of India, yet his failure to keep the Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah within the Indian National Congress's fold led to the partition of the country. For all his vaunted selflessness and modesty, he made no move to object when Jinnah was attacked during a Congress session for calling him "Mr. Gandhi" instead of "Mahatma," and booed off the stage by Gandhi's supporters. Later, his withdrawal, under pressure from Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, of a last-ditch offer to Jinnah of the prime ministership itself, ended the last faint chance of avoiding partition.
He was determined to live his life as an ascetic, but, as the poet Sarojini Naidu joked, it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhi living in poverty. His entire philosophy privileged the village way over that of the city, yet he was always financially dependent on the support of industrial billionaires like Birla. His hunger strikes could stop riots and massacres, but he also once went on a hunger strike to force one of his capitalist patrons' employees to break their strike against the harsh conditions of employment. As Ambedkar's star has risen among the Dalits, so Gandhi's stature has been reduced. Gandhi set out on his pilgrimage of peace in riot-wrecked Bengal to establish unity between the two sister-communities. His message was, "The cry of blood is barbarous."On January 30 at sunset hour, the perverse assassin of the ages lodged hot lead in the soft flesh of Mohandes K. Gandhi. His mind was concentrated on God and he merged in him. He had said, "if I am to die by the bullet of man I must do so smiling" He was the Victorious On in death as in life.
I think that "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps. Gandhi, who gave up cosmopolitanism to gain a country, has become, in his strange afterlife, a citizen of the world: his spirit may yet prove resilient, smart, tough, sneaky and, yes, ethical enough to avoid assimilation by global McCulture (and Mac culture too). Against this new empire, Gandhian intelligence is a better weapon than Gandhian piety. And passive resistance? We'll see.
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