(13986) Lit 1-120 1 June 2012 Gandhi’s Philosophy of Non-Violence First there was hostility‚ blood‚ vandalism‚ looting‚ pillaging‚ and then there was Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most influential people in history and fittingly has a place in the pantheon of the visionaries who changed the world. His philosophies of ahimsa and satyagraha‚ meaning non violence and non violent resistance respectively as a form of civil resistance and disobedience is one of the most prominent and most renowned
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authority of the state. For example‚ in Indian Non Cooperation Movement led by Gandhi in 1920’s‚ it included surrender of titles‚ resignation from nominated seats in local government bodies‚ boycott of government educational institutions‚ law courts and foreign goods. In addition‚ from March 1930 to April 1934‚ Gandhi also called the Indian people to process the Civil Disobedience Movement‚ which was known as Salt Satyagraha. Through these decades-long nonviolent struggles‚ India won its independence
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separate electorates for Muslims. In the year 1916‚ the Muslim League united with Congress and signed a pact known as the Lucknow Pact and decided to work together for representative government in the government. ADVENT OF MAHATMA GANDHI: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at Porbandar‚ Gujarat in the year 1869. He was an advocate by profession and practiced law at South Africa. He returned to India in 1915 and emerged as a mass leader. He was a respectable leader as he led Indians in South
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Gandhi was an activist who had a different approach to civil disobedience and the search for change. He practiced and taught the theory of nonviolence in his era. The fundamental idea behind his teachings was a concept known as Satyagraha‚ which means to hold on to the truth. Satyagraha to Gandhi was a powerful force that was above anything. Furthermore‚ he argues that because humans do not fully posses the truth‚ they are not in a position to practice violence acts against one another. However‚
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fighters with their true spirit and undaunted courage had faced various tortures‚ exploitations and hardships to earn us freedom. The pioneers of the freedom movement were Mangal Pandey‚Tantia Tope‚ Rani of Jhansi and the great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi who introduced non-violent ways of fighting the enemy. Other notable freedom fighters of India are Annie Besant‚ Lala Lajpat Rai‚ Bal Gangadhar Tilak‚ Bhagat Singh‚ Bipin Chandra Pal‚ Sukhdev‚ Gopal Krishna Gokhale‚Chandrashekhar Azad‚ Sarojini Naidu>
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associate the name Gandhi with the principles of peaceful protest that fought for the independence of India From Britain and promoted religious freedom. Although this is true‚ Gandhi was more than a protestor and achieved change through a deep understanding of justice and religion; he used this knowledge to great effect and achieved change in a unique way. Born in 1869 in India where he was raised‚ he found his way to England to study law. After briefly returning to India‚ Gandhi traveled to South
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"All the leadership had spent their early years in England. They were influenced by British thought‚ British ideas‚ that is why our leaders were always telling the British "How can you do these things? They’re against your own basic values.". We had no hatred‚ in fact it was the other way round - it was their values that made us revolt." <br>-Aruna Asaf Ali‚ a leader of the Indian National Congress. <br>(Masani‚ quoted in Wood‚ 32‚ 1989) <br> <br>There is no doubt that British imperialism had a large
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fact. Indian women actively participated in the revolutionary movements for social changes during the national struggle for Independence. Thus‚ the participation of women was not restricted to one type of activity such as the non-violent Satyagraha Movement. Women`s early contribution to the Indian national movement started in the late 19th Century with their involvement in the Indian National Congress. In 1890‚ Swarana Kumari Ghoshal‚ a women novelist and Kadambari Ganguly‚ the first woman
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Year 12 UNIT 2 (British History) Topic D2: Britain and the Nationalist Challenge in India 1900-47 MOCK REVISION LIST 2012 The main focus of this option is on the changing relationship between Britain and India in this period and on the reasons for this‚ with particular reference to Indian nationalism. Students will be expected to understand the importance of the growth and impact of Congress and the Muslim League as they challenged Britain’s traditional role in India‚ and they should understand
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naam‚ Sab ko Sanmti de Bhagawan.......... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi‚ Mahatma Gandhi‚ the apostle of peace and the Father of the Nation was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. In his autobiography "My experiments with Truth" Gandhi recalls that his childhood and teen age years were characterized by education in a local school‚ marriage to Kasturba at the age of 13 and an intrinsic love for ‘truth’ and ‘duty’. Gandhi‚ as he was popularly called‚ proved that non-violence is the most
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