walk along and pick up salt straight from the ground. However‚ the British banned this because it was one of Britain’s main sources of income from India. This protest was directly challenging the British rule‚ the British arrested 80‚000 people and Indian jails were bursting from the sheer amount of people‚ it made people in India realize that the British could not arrest
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of violence and forced migration in 1947. 2. Here‚ you can see the map of Indian sub-continent before its partition into Pakistan and India in August 1947. From early 16th century to 1857‚ the Indian sub-continent was predominately ruled by Mughals. Gradually‚ Mughals lost their empire in the hands of British and by 1857‚ the British have established themselves as the rulers of Indian sub-continent. The Indian sub-continent was divided into two separate nation-states‚ India and Pakistan‚ in
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Gandhi lead one of the greatest mass movements in the World’s history. As a leader‚ Gandhi utilised religious principles in order to inspire people to fight colonial oppression in India. Mohandas demanded to study law in Great Britain; however‚ his caste (social rank) did not allow him to travel abroad‚ so when he refused to comply he was expelled from the caste of merchants. Despite the fact that Gandhi was expelled from the caste‚ he still kept continuing with his first step to becoming a lawyer
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Nehru (on Indian Independence Day‚ 1947) “Every year‚ we celebrate our Independence Day with great fervour as well as joy and justifiably so‚ as it commemorates that day‚ when after many years of subjugation‚ our country gained its freedom. Indeed‚ in the annals of history‚ 15th of August 1947 will always be remembered as a day of an extraordinary accomplishment‚ of when India won its freedom with unparalleled fortitude and unique means. Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi‚ our movement for attaining
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and inspired movements for non-violence and civil rights and freedom across the world is definitely a person I want to meet. Mahatma Gandhi was a leader with great aplomb and had great leadership skills. Gandhi was the preeminent leader during the British rule over India. Gandhi is remembered today for his virtues he believed and tried to preach. They were non-violence‚ truth‚ love‚ and fraternity. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslims and Hindu Indians in South Africa
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work in Kasturba training camp of Bengal. I worked in a village. The villagers around me and the girl trainees‚ I noticed‚ knew very little about Gandhiji. They observed Gandhi Jayanti‚ daily spun and prayed. Some had taken part in national movements and courted jail‚ but they did not know what Gandhiji’s real contribution was. May be I was wrong‚ but that is what I felt. I still feel the same about many persons I come in contact with every day‚ some of whom are educated‚ all of whom abhor
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our minds. At times so great is the influence that it changes the source of our lives. Thus for example the impact of mahatma gandhi on the young jawaharlal nehru was so great that it changed the course of his life by making him join the freedom movement. I have also been profoundly influenced by the life of pandit jawaharlal nehru from what i have read about him through his autobiographies and books. The more i dwell on his life the greater becomes my curiosity to know him better. He was
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as a lawyer. He supported the poor and truthful clients. He went to South Africa to deal with the cases of a famous merchant named Abdula Seth. In South Africa he faced many hurdles. He discovered that the white men were ill treating the dark Indians there. He himself was tortured and insulted by the white often. One day‚ he was travelling in a first class compartment a train. He had booked a ticket for him. Still he was evented and punished out of the compartment by the white men. On another
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SPOKEN ENGLISH AND BROKEN ENGLISH George Bernard Shaw is perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the modern era. Though he is best known as a playwright‚ Shaw was also a respected critic‚ journalist‚ novelist‚ and essayist. A noted social reformer‚ Shaw wrote plays which dramatized social commentaries‚ and in 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. “The gramophone will one day be used for language teaching”‚ prophesied H.G.Wells. Shaw made a special recording on ‘Spoken English
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“The Civil Rights Movement‚ it wasn’t just a couple of‚ you know‚ superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions‚ I should say - of people taking risks‚ becoming leaders in their community.” ~Barbara Ehrenreich The civil rights movement was a movement that affected everyone from all backgrounds of life. The movement began in the early to mid-1950s and ended around the late 1960s.The civil rights movement was widely recognized by some of the greatest pioneers of all
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