Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in Western India into a Hindu “bania” family. His family originated from the village of Kutiana, successive generations of the family had served as civil servants of the state administration until his grandfather was appointed as a Diwan in the early 19th century. His father was married 3 times before his mother. Karamchand and Putlibai had 4 children, they had a son, Laxmidas, a daughter, Raliatbehn, another son, Karsandas, and then their last child Mohandas. Their family religion was eclectic, his father was Hindu and his mother was a highly pious women. He entered a local school in 1879 studying basics of arithmetic, geography, history, and the Gujarati language. The performance he gave in school …show more content…
His goal was to represent how non-violent demonstrations was a more effective way of resistance against repression. Gandhi launched his “Quit India” movement on August 8, 1942 at the All-India Congress Committee at Bombay (1942). The next day the British government arrested several of the Indian Congress leaders, this also began a string of non-violent demonstrations to take place throughout India.Quit India was a forceful movement that caused attacks and violent uprisings. Even though his speech was to emit that Ahimsa, nonviolence, was the best way to protest change in India. He called his countrymen toward nonviolent protest against British imperialism, proposing that india could not feel national pride without independence (Speech). With this, he urged his followers and supporters to not blame the British, but instead hate imperialism. The “Quit India” movement achieved immediate goals, but was ultimately failure due to British suppression, lack of planning, and lack of nonviolence management. The British did however realize that India would be ungovernable as Britain was entangled in World War II and Indian political parties were not supportive of the war. The Congress Working Committee met in Wharda and proposed a resolution in July of 1942. It asked for complete independence from the British government and threatened mass disobedience if the terms were not agreed to.With more nonviolent protest came more arrests and failure
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Western Coast of India. Gandhi’s father was the chief minister of Porbandar and his mother was a religiously devoted practitioner in worshiping the Hindu God Vishnu. Since Gandhi was more privileged, he was able to attend a college overseas to further his knowledge. The
Gandhi was not born poor or untouchable but to a respectful merchant class family (Bush 23). He did a lot of self-searching as a young man before becoming the “Mahatma” Indians respected and followed. Prior to achieving his status as an honored
Grabber: Today, close to a billion people live freely in India because of the courageous actions one man chose to take against the British Rule.
Gandhi, famous for his peaceful ways of protesting, led India to independence by defying the British legislation. Despite being arrested and beaten, Gandhi never gave up and used the setbacks to fuel his determination to fight for independence. The three major events in the fight against the British rule included the massacre at the Golden Temple, the homespun movement, and the salt march. Each event brought India closer to being a free country. Led by Gandhi, India struggled to gain independence from Britain in a nonviolent approach, but remained peaceful in their protests even with the British mercilessly obstructing their fight for freedom.
Mohandas Gandhi was a religious man, however, his religious beliefs did not come from his childhood but from his studies that he began as a political activist in South Africa. Upon his return to India from England, he had had a rough start as a lawyer and accepted an offer to work on a case in South Africa. He ended up staying in South Africa for more than twenty years. In South Africa Gandhi became a leader of the Indian immigration population. Gandhi had to learn skills to overcome caste, class, and religious divisions to build a base for dramatic mass actions. In the process, Gandhi’s religious development influenced his politics. He believed that the search for truth was the goal of human life, and since “no one could ever be sure of having attained the ultimate truth, use of violence to enforce one’s own necessarily partial understanding of it was sinful.”
Gandhi's early life had a huge influence on the man he became. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar or the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father, Karamchand Gandhi, served as the dewan (chief minister) of Porbander state and his deeply religious mother, Putlibai, who was from a Pranami Vaishnava family, was Karamchand's fourth wife. His mother was a practitioner of the worship of the Hindu god Vishnu, otherwise known as Vaishnavism. His life at home taught him the tenets of self-discipline and nonvionlence.
Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because he didn’t believe in segregation and didn’t follow the British’s rules for Indians. When coming back from prison in 1859, things changed in India. The people if India were forced to mimic the English on how they dressed, copy their manner and accept their standards of beauty. When hearing this, Gandhi didn’t accept it and started his movement. According to the background document,” he shed the cloths that made him look like a British lawyer and dressed in a poor man’s traditional loincloth.”(Background document) By do...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2,1869. He was born in Porbandar, Kathiawar India. Gandhi died on January 30,1948. Gandhi was important because he was one of the first people to use the principle of non-violence. Gandhi's teachings influenced many famous people around the world. Some examples are: Martin Luther King,Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein, and John Lennon.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Indian. When he turned 18, he went to England to study law. Years later he returned to India, but finding work as a lawyer was hard there. He went to South Africa to work but had many experiences of discrimination by white British authorities. These events were what prompted Gandhi to commit to fighting injustice towards Indian immigrants. Gandhi was determined to fight prejudice, no matter the difficulty. Gandhi
In an effort to help free India from the British rule, Mahatma Gandhi once again contributed to a protest against salt taxes, known as the Salt March. This protest advocated Gandhi’s theory of satyagraha or nonviolent disobedience as the nation came together on March 12, 1930 to walk the 241 miles long journey to the shores of Dandi to attain salt. Although some Indians criticized Gandhi for not achieving direct independence from the Raj or British rule, Gandhi’s execution of the Salt March helped to create a stronger nation for the Indians to live in. Gandhi motivated the Indians to act robustly against the injustices of the salt taxes through nonviolent means. This caused Gandhi to create a temporary compromising pact between Gandhi and the British viceroy over the turmoil created by the salt taxes. In addition, Gandhi drew a plan known as the “Quit India” resolution, whose immediate effect brought India closer to obtaining independence than before.
Gandhi was a great man in a lot of ways he was born on October 2, 1869 in Western India. At the age of thirteen he married Kasturbi who was also thirteen before his father died. When he did his mother sent him to law school in England this was in 1888. While he was there he fell in love so to speak with the nonviolent ways of the Hindu scriptures of the Bhagavad-Gita, and in the bible tellings of Jesus.
The next major and final step in the Indian Independence Movement was the Quit India civil disobedience organized by Gandhi.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who is also known as Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most important Politian and spiritual leader of India. Mahatma Gandhi is known as the Father of the Nation due to his contributions towards the Indian independence and freedom. He used non-violence and unity of the people as a tool to fight against the British. He was also known for the removal of the untouchability in the society of India, uplifting the low classes and raised voice in order to develop villages for the Indian society. During the movement 1922 and 1930, he led the country in a non-operation movement and struggled to gain the Indian Independence.
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of faith and great conviction. He was born into an average Hindu family in India. Like most teenagers he had a rebellious stage when he smoked, spent time with girls and ate meat (forbidden to strict Hindus). The young Gandhi changed as a person while earning a living as a lawyer in South Africa. He came in contact with the apartheid and the future Mahatma began to emerge, one who championed the truth through non-violent resistance. It was between 1915 and his assassination in 1945 that he struggled for India's freedom.
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...