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    Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi was a believer of sorting out conflicts through peaceful means. Ahimsa wishes no harm to any living being‚ whether human or not. It included not only a lack of physical harm to one’s opponents‚ but also a lack of hatred or towards them. Ahimsa originated from ancient India‚ evidenced by scriptures‚ and is practiced in the religions Hinduism‚ Buddhism and Jainism. Living in the period of time when India was being colonized and unjustly treated by the British‚

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    1. Gandhi used to sleep with girls of aged between 18 to 25. Very few people know about this but its true (for detail you can read books by Dr L .R. BALI named“RANGEELA GANDHI” & “KYA GANDHI MAHATMA THE”) the girls who slept with Gandhi accepted this. Gandhi used to say that he is doing all this for his BRAHMCHARI Experiments. What from his experiments he was wanted to prove nobody knows? Gandhi himself accepted this that at the time of going to London for higher studies he decided to keep himself

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    1800s people of Indian nationality confronted discrimination in all parts of South Africa‚ and someone affected by this was Mahatma Gandhi‚ known as the “great soul”. Gandhi was an activist and philosopher who used nonviolent resistance‚ he was the controlling figure who struggled along with all the Indian population to gain independence from Great Britain. Gandhi introduced passive resistance‚ a concept also known as “satyagraha‚” which was a method to abstain from cooperating with authorities

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    Gandhi Essay India faced many difficult challenges and still faces many challenges after independence and even still today. India had a man named Gandhi to help them towards independence. Gandhi was nicknamed "Mahatma" in India because he was a great soul in independence movement. He had many goals and messages that he passed on to the people of India. The way he fought was with nonviolent disobedience. Gandhi celebrated the Indian culture with nonviolence as well. He didn’t take sides of religions

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    Discussion Guide for Gandhi Video: (Complete all 17 of these questions to answer prior to class‚ please.) 1. What was the principle or personal lesson that Gandhi taught his Christian clergyman friend‚ from the clergyman’s own law? Gandhi taught many lessons to his Christian clergyman friend‚ but the principal was probably that the lesson taught in the bible need it to be implemented in real life‚ on each act of our life and not only be preach. 2. What was the irony of Gandhi fighting for Indian

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    figures in the history of India‚ Mohandas K. Gandhi‚ also known as the Mahatma‚ or "The Great Soul"‚ was the spiritual and practical founder of active non-violent resistance‚ a concept called Satyagraha. Also known as ¡°soul-force¡± or ¡°truth-force¡±‚ Gandhi developed this revolutionary technique as a method of gaining political and social reforms against the injustices experienced by Indians under British Colonial rule. For most of his life‚ Gandhi devoted himself to perfecting the Satyagraha

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    Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and blood". -Albert Einstein Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors‚ but Gandhi was a passive and peaceful preacher of morals‚ ethics‚ and beliefs. He was an outsider who ended British rule over India without striking a blow. Moreover‚ Gandhi was

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    In December 22‚ 1916 Mohandas Gandhi had a speech to well educated elites in a Muir Central College Economic Society‚ where located in Allahabad‚ Indina. From this speech he demonstrates about the relationship of economic progresses and moral progresses. From reading it‚ I were first interested because of him saying about economics because he had never learned specifically about it and a hindu asserting about the New Testament which not for the Hindus but for the Christians. I then recognized that

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    Mahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી‚ pronounced [moːɦən̪d̪aːs kərəmʨən̪d̪ ɡaːn̪d̪ʱiː] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience‚ a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa‚ or total nonviolence‚ which helped India to gain independence‚ and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom

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    Mahatma Gandhi-a martyr Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 at the place Porbander in Gujarat. He was first interested in legal administration. He completed his studies in South Africa. He participated in Boer war‚ Zulu rebellion and championed the Indian cause. He was one of the greatest and famous freedom fighters. His two assets were simplicity and humility. He is said to be the father of our country. He said some slogans they were: “do or die” “simple living and high thinking”

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