Nation)‚ was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience‚ Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence‚ civil rights‚ and freedom across the world.[2][3] The son of a senior government official‚ Gandhi was born and raised in a Bania[4] community in coastal Gujarat‚ and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa‚ using new techniques
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Mohandas Gandhi was a nationalist Indian leader that waged a campaign of nonviolence against the colonial British government that took over India in order to help achieve its’ independence. Mohandas Gandhi was among the greatest political and social reformers of recent times‚ he is best remembered for his later campaigns to overthrow British rule in India‚ which led to India’s independence in 1947. He was born in the second day of October in 1869 Gandhi placed himself at the heart of the world-encircling
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Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law ‚ Punjab HISTORY PROJECT : MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION – A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 10/31/2013 Submitted to Ms. Rachna Sharma Submitted by: 1203- Dhruv Sumboli 1204-Ashwin Upreti 1205- Naveed Mahmuh 1206- Nishant SIngh TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION- PART I……………………………………………………………………. MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION- PART II……………………………………………………………………. CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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(9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was one of the founding social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society. Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in‚ Gokhale promoted not only primarily independence from the British Empire but also social reform. To achieve his goals‚ Gokhale followed two overarching
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congress. Gandhi had whole heartedly supported the British during the 1st World War (1914-1919). The end of war‚ however‚ did not bring the promised freedom for India. So Gandhiji launched many movements to force the British to concede India its Independence. The well known being: Non Co-operation Movement (1920)‚ Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) and Quit India Movement (1942). Gandhi defeated the mighty British empire not with swords or guns ‚ but by means of strange and utterly new weapons of
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On the 18‚ July 1947 India declared it’s independence from the British Empire after almost 200 years of being rule over the country. But independence was short lived after a day; the country was split up into 2 different countries which became Pakistan. Later the Pakistani province of East Pakistan will declare it’s independence from Pakistan which became the country Bangladesh. India was split up on the bases of religion which has created bitter relations between the populations of these three countries
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Gandhi. Many agree with Gandhi because of the many things Gandhi accomplished through peaceful means such as‚ changing the way many South Africans saw Indians. This was a huge achievement because at the time racism was open and very commonly used. Gandhi never rioted‚ he only campaigned. In 1919 Gandhi became the “leader in the newly- formed Indian National Congress party”. Gandhi advocated passive resistance to British rules and submission to their aggression. He did not fight with the South Africans
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August 15 of 1947‚ India declared its independence from the British rule; the man behind this victory was Mahatma Gandhi a lawyer who experienced discrimination at a barbershop and a train due to his skin color‚ a man’s philosophy that inspired great leaders like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. His activism of nonviolence impacted India encouraging important movements in other parts of the world. Mahatma Gandhi was able to accomplish India´s independence but it was not easy‚ he struggled and
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India in 1891. In April 1893 he went to South Africa and involved himself in the struggle against apartheid (Racial discrimination against the Blacks) for twenty years. Finally‚ he came to India in 1915. Thereafter‚ he fully involved himself in the Indian National Movement. Mahatma Gandhi began his experiments with Satyagraha against the oppressive European indigo planters at Champaran in Bihar in 1917. In the next year he launched another Satyagraha at Kheda in Gujarat in support of the peasants
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commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi‚ was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence‚ civil rights and freedom across the world.The son of a senior government official‚ Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania[4] community in coastal Gujarat‚ and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa‚ using new techniques of non-violent civil
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