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Gan dhi’s Life

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Gan dhi’s Life

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  1. Gandhi’s Life Born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was raised in a religious home. He was influenced by the two Indian religions-Hinduism and Jainism. The religion of Jainism stresses two important principles and ideas: being nonviolent and the belief that everything thing in the universe is eternal. Mohandas was considered to be an average student in school. At the University of Bombay in 1887 he finished his studies. By September 1888 he moved to England to study law and spent time reading philosophy. One essay about the political theory of nonviolence by U.S. writer Henry David Thoreau greatly influenced Gandhi. The ideas in the essay combined with the religious teachings of his childhood shaped his social and political thought towards a nonviolent way. Returning to India he became a lawyer, however was not very successful. Gandhi is known as Mahatma, meaning “great soul” for his notable efforts in leading the people of India to freedom. He is also considered to be a noble leader and father of modern India for his nonviolent independence movements against the British. Mohandas Gandhi was a very influential person with many accomplishments that changed the course of history.

  2. Life in Africa 1893 Gandhi went to Africa, where he actively got involved in the affairs of the Indian community. He first turned to the problems of the Indian laborers living in South Africa. He wanted equal rights for everyone and resisted segregation, refusing even in one instant to give up his seat on a stagecoach to a European. One day on a train, the European ordered Gandhi to ride in the baggage car. Gandhi said that he had a first-class ticket, but that did not matter. No person of color could sit in the whites-only and Gandhi refused to move. He was thrown off the train at the next station. He told a friend, who was also Indian, about the incident. The friend explained that such an experience was not unusual. This event and the truth told by his friend about the acceptance of injustice infuriated Gandhi even more. That event was the first spark that turned Gandhi, practically overnight, into a brilliant social injustice fighting leader.

  3. Fight for Rights in Africa In 1984, while witnessing the inferiority of Indians in India, England, and Africa, Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress to fight for Indian rights. Yet he remained loyal to the British Empire and in 1899, during the Boer War, he raised an ambulance corps and served the South African government. His frequent petitions drew world attention to the discrimination in South Africa. In 1906, the South African government decreed a law requiring that Indians register and be fingerprinted with the officials so that they could be controlled. Insulted, Gandhi and most Indians organized a rebellion that focused on Satyagraha, meaning Soul Force. Gandhi believed, “Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.” This practice focused on nonviolent protests that would make the oppressors see their faults. In continued protests, Gandhi was arrested.

  4. Life in India . Returning to India in 1914 he was struck by the wide spread poverty there and adopted a simple life style. However he did not change his rebellious ways and continued to fight for freedom. In fact, he used his non-violent principles to fight for independence and become the leader, in 1919, of the newly formed Indian National Congress political party. Then in 1920 he began a noncooperation campaign called the Homespun Campaign against Britain, urging Indians to make their own materials like cotton and to boycott British materials. He urged them to make their own clothing and to refuse to by anything made by the British. This led to his imprisonment from 1922 to 1924.

  5. Fight for Rights in India Later in 1930, he protested more British laws and taxes. While protesting a salt tax, Gandhi led thousands of Indians on a 200-mile march to the sea to make their own salt. He led a 24-day march from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea, where they made salt by evaporating sea water. Once more he was arrested, but was released in 1931 and in the same year he represented the Indian National Congress at a conference in London. He called his movement Satyagraha and insisted that protestors should never act violently, not even in self-defense. "One cannot hate. Hate is against nonviolence," Gandhi told his followers. "Therefore one respects enemies, one teaches them. And nothing is as strong as a nonviolent movement. It can conquer anything, if it is used properly."The British responded in the exact opposite of Gandhi. If he fasted as a personal means of persuading people to act rightly, then the British reacted by beating, torturing, imprisoning, and killing hundreds of unarmed men, women, and children. Still, Gandhi and his followers refused to return violence with violence. However, in 1934 he retired as head of the Indian National Congress political party but was still considered by many to be its actual leader. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/elib/do/document?urn=urn:bigchalk:US;BCLib;document;141087431

  6. Indian Independence He realized that India would never actually be free if it remained under British rule and wanted to do something that would break Britain rule. When World War II started he demanded immediate independence from Britain or else India would not support them in the war. He was imprisoned for the third time, from 1942 to 1944 for his treasonous act against parliament and the country. However, Britain now faced a difficult decision: deny India independence and lose a trading partner, or let India become free and hope to continue trading with the independent country. Finally Gandhi's hard work paid off and victory came in 1947 when India won independence. Gandhi got India its freedom and was considered to be one of the greatest activists of the time.

  7. Civil War in India Becoming an independent nation did not bring peace to India. After being granted independence the two major religions of India broke into civil war. Gandhi didn’t like the fact that Indians were fighting with each other. He said that Muslims and Indians should live peacefully together. He stated that Hindus and Muslims "must be brave enough to love one another, tolerate one another's religion ... and trust one another."Britain divided the subcontinent into two countries after the independence and fighting: the Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan. This division brought lots of calamities and many Indians fought violently. More than 500,000 people were killed, and 12 million lost their homes To stop the violence Gandhi again turned to nonviolence. Until Delhi rioters stopped fighting and promised peace to him he fasted.

  8. Gandhi’s Death Gandhi was killed by a Hindu extremist, who was angry at Gandhi’s tolerance for Muslims, on January 30, 1948. He was shot and with his final breath Gandhi was said to utter "He Ram," the Hindu word for God. Gandhi’s message of peace lived on after his death. Many civil rights activists including Martin Luther King Jr. applied Gandhi’s methods of nonviolence during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/elib/do/document?urn=urn:bigchalk:US;BCLib;document;144355875

  9. Nonviolence Gandhi believed in nonviolence more than anything. He even states that, “when the time for the drawing of the sword comes, if it ever comes, you will find him drawing that sword and you will find me retiring to the jungles of Hindustan. As soon as India accepts the doctrine of the sword, my life as an Indian is finished.” Also he said, “I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed with his breast bare before the enemy.”

  10. Conclusion Gandhi was a great political leader and fighter. He led the Hindu people of Africa to rebel against the British and have equal rights. He used peace and non-violence to do all of this as well. In addition he also gained the independence of India and is thus know as the father of India. Going to jail many times for fighting a cause he believed in, Gandhi finally got India’s independence in 1947. However, after the independence, India broke in to civil war and was separated in to two countries. During this fighting Gandhi helped calm both sides down, but was killed by a Hindu frantic. I believe Gandhi was a great person who fought for a cause he believed in. He never stopped trying and I believe that is an excellent quality. In fact I look up to him as a role model just as Dr. King did. Revenge is a something that always ends in a bad way. In fact Gandhi is known for saying, “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”

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