The Man Who Changed Life as We Know It Can you stop a country without going to war with them? Gandhi did just that with the British Empire pushing India around. India did not gain their independence like normal countries with force they did it with peaceful protest and Gandhi was a big reason how they did it. Mohandas K. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar on the Kathiawar peninsula of India. Gandhi got married at the age of 13 by a set up wedding by both their parents and they had 4 kids. He left India to go to London to study law at the age of 19. He came back later did some great things then was assassinated by Hindu extremist in 1948. Gandhi beliefs, leadership, courage, and the way he inspired others were the reasons why he …show more content…
Without his leadership India may have never been freed from British rule. He also helped Africa and their situation with discrimination by standing up for what he believed in. After 20 years of staying in Africa Gandhi decided to move back home and when he gets there he noticed how controlling the British are, so he does something about it. Once people started to recognize he wasnt giving up on this stand of his they started to follow him like he was a president or someone like Martin Luther King Jr. In the book Concise History of the world: An Illustrated Timeline by Jerry Bentley he says, “In 1930 Gandhi led a 200 mile march to the sea to protest the British salt tax. He and other Indian National Congress leaders were jailed, but upon his release less than a year later Gandhi continued his fasts and nonviolent protests”(Kagan 296-343). He is showing trait in leadership by never giving up and keep fighting because Gandhi didn't get it on the first try he had to keep fighting and fighting until they got it like all great leaders like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, and many more. Gandhi may not had the military background or some kind of leadership background but that didn't stop him from being the leader he was born to be. He was a simple man that believe in what he thought was
...ndence. He demonstrated the value of love and humanity. He never hated anyone and never wanted to harm his enemy. Gandhi sacrificed his family life and personal possessions for what he thought was right. His mission started when he was insulted and decided to take a stand against it. He didn’t start out as a leader but developed into one throughout his years in South Africa. His goal in India was to gain independence for India. Even after the independence of India he sought to resolve the religious conflicts that existed between the Muslims and the Hindus. He was dedicated to serving people. Gandhi succeeded as an independence leader with the use of nonviolent methods. Satyagraha proved to be a technique that required courage, patience and life. When done properly the results were positive. This figure in world history will never be forgotten, but admired for years to come.
In the case of Mohandus Gandhi, his personal character allowed him to be a great leader. People wanted to be lead by him even though Gandhi held no real political office. At the beginning of his crusade to free India, he made his intentions completely known to the public. Not all people believed in the non-violence that he preached. To change that, Gandhi risked his own life fasting for long periods of time until all fighting and bloodshed stopped. It is selfless acts such as these that rang out to the population. Soon his ideas changed the characters of people around the world. This all could not have been accomplish...
“ First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” (Mahatma Gandhi). Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbandar. Throughout his life Gandhi helped those in need. He was taught that everyone and everything is holy. He married at the custom age of 19 and went to London to study law. The thing that helped Gandhi promote nonviolence is that he worked his entire life saying that violence didn’t change the way people acted. He lived his life saying that an eye for an eye only made the whole world blind. Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because he had something to prove and everyone else in the world agreed with him.
Gandhi was a well knowledgeable and unique person who found hope in struggles that he never thought would shape who he was. Gandhi was born in a Hindu family, and even though he was the youngest he made a huge impact on others (“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi” pg 3). He had his older brother who helped him with his education when his father passed away (“Mohandas Gandhi”). Gandhi was very religious even when he was little his brothers tried to make him eat meat (it wasn’t bad to eat meat in Hinduism when you are little), but he refused (“Mohandas Gandhi”). Gandhi respected his religion and was a respectful towards others.
One day Gandhi got pushed out of the train when he refused to leave his seat for a white person, it was then that he decided never to be pushed down again and to fight for the rights of minorities. He started to lead the Indian workers in South Africa and fought for their rights. At this moment he made a rule to himself which made him popular: never to use violence in his fights, even if others would use violence against him .
He believed in the peaceful method which he used to bring freedom to India and its people. His belief was that he could achieve independence for India through nonviolent means and so he did, but only by staying true to his cause and belief of peaceful disobedience. His genius comes from the fact that he achieved his goal without raising arms against the oppressors, where as many others would’ve seen war as the only solution, and that’s where Gandhi’s genius reveals itself. Only a fool would think that there is only one way to go about everything to be sure, but surely you would agree that it is foolish to believe so, but would attaining to those thoughts and beliefs make you a genius? Well, in the right light, butter is unmistakably gold and carrot cubes are unmistakably topaz crystals.
Mohandas Gandhi was one of Indias most popular leaders. A Lawyer by trade, he left the law to fight personally for his peoples' rites against their British rulers. Deep comitted to nonviolence Gandhi was determined to win India's freedom by avoiding confrontation.
It wasn’t easy for him to fight for these rights, or even get them. So he encouraged people to work together which is stated in Satyagraha: Gandhi’s Legacy “He encouraged others to defend their rights in this manner, and to work together to end racial injustice in South Africa”. If Gandhi didn’t encourage people to work together to end racial injustice, then they never would have ended racial injustice. South Africa wasn’t friendly to non-whites which lead to everyone fighting to end racial injustice. “. . . South Africa was not a friendly place for non-whites” (Satyagraha: Gandhi’s Legacy). Gandhi found out that when he was in South Africa, that it was only friendly to whites and not non-whites. Part of the reason that South Africa was like that was because it was part of the British colony. “Part of the problem in South Africa was that it was part of the British colony. . . . It was this situation that led to much of the racial tension in the country. . . ” (Satyagraha: Gandhi’s Legacy). If South Africa were to get independence from Britain, which they later did, then the racial tension would go down. Overall, Gandhi fought hard to gain independence from Britain and to end racial
Gandhi’s leadership was unique, strong, and modern, yet he faced many critics who loathed what they viewed as Gandhi’s forced universalism of his ideals. The three main areas of contention with regard to Gandhi’s leadership were: communalism, untouchability and gender issues. These issues were part of a deeper debate on Indian identity and social reform as part of its move towards independence. Most - if not all - leaders of the time were concerned with defining the culture of the (potentially divided) Indian state in a manner that would ensure the continuity of such a state and therefore was as much a part of pre-independence politics as the struggle for independence itself. These issues were not and arguably could not have been resolved entirely, but highlighted incidents and views that fell in the realm of Gandhi’s ‘blind spot’.
Mahatma Gandhi was a multi-faceted man, one whose writings spanned every subject under the sun, including: agriculture, education, science, sanitation, economics, literature, industry, women, children, health, family planning, religion, and, of course, politics. Many were surprised to learn of his prolific writing, and were astounded to hear that he had probably written more than anyone else in history (his collected works run to over 100 volumes, several hundred pages each).
The essence of the above quoted is very much the central idea of Vizai’s play The Return of Gandhi. The play aptly attacks the rot in present day political system. The play has won Nandi Award in 2002 given by the Government of Andhra Pradesh in the Best Drama category. This Play has been written well before the most popular hit movies in Hindi as Lage raho Munnabhai and in Telugu Sankardada MBBS were made on the re-arrival of Gandhi to Earth. Yama Dharma Raju….. Hell…… Gandhiji’s arrival to Hell on an invitation….. Happy mood in Hell because of Gandhiji’s entry… Chitragupta’s allegation (with a fear) on Gandhi as a sinner…. Yama Dharma Raju’s unwillingness to convict Gandhiji….. Chitra Gupta’s reiteration of promoting Gandhi as a sinner because he who is held responsible in bringing freedom to an immature nation…. as
India has not been a free independent country for a long time. It had been under British rule from 1858-1947. India finally became independent on August 15, 1947 (Trueman). Many people credit India’s independence to Mahatma Gandhi because of the great role he played in helping India in its freedom struggle. Along with Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammed Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru assisted in making India an independent country. Gandhi’s main principle in India’s freedom struggle was based on non violence, which he called satyagraha, which means holding onto the truth, truth force, or soul force (Bondurant). Along with nonviolence Gandhi believe in passive resistance and swaraj or self rule. Gandhi thought that being violent would only get a bad response from the British, however passive resistance pushed the British to do something which would make them look bad To accomplish swaraj or self rule (Bondurant), Gandhi believed India needed 3 vital ingredients. The first thing India needed was to unify Indians with different religions, especially Hindus and Muslims. Second, India needed to remove its...
and he went right on to right a letter to Bhai Ambalalji who was a mill-owner.
could neither read nor write, but was very religious and was known to go on extended
The Quit India Movement was an important movement for independence although it did not gain Indian independence at that exact moment. It was a Segway into to the movement that changed Indian lives. Gandhi launched his “Quit India movement in August 1942 in Bombay. This speech was to (encourage) Indians to wage one last struggle for independence or die trying. he repudiates. Many claim that the Quit India speech by Gandhi was a Civil Disobedience Movement that was a huge launch for independence. Throughout Gandhi’s speech he requested the withdrawal of British rule from India through mass nonviolent protest asking desperately for the freedom for (of) the Indian People. Throughout Gandhi’s Passionate speech for freedom he proclaimed that “every Indian who desires there freedom and strives must be his own guide. And that “every Indian should consider there selves a free man. This speech was mostly described as an Inspirational and motivating speech that is to persuade Indians to seek their freedom. In Gandhi’s speech he had told Indians to follow non-violent civil disobedience. He told the multitudes and masses to act as an independent nation that would soon follow freedom for their people. This movement that Gandhi had given the call “Quit India” to the British and pressed Indians with his emotive slogan ‘Do or Die’. It was during this time that Gandhi made a statement: "We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery". His goal and aims throughout his speech was to encourage the British government to negotiate through determined, but passive resistance.