Annamarie McAllister Communicating Leadership February 27‚ 2014 Gandhi: Leading for a Change Mahatma Gandhi is internationally considered to be one of the most influential leaders the world has ever experienced. During India’s independence movement‚ Gandhi used non-violent‚ civil disobedience tactics in order to gain equality for Indian’s in South Africa and used these same methods to promote religious tolerance between Muslims and Hindus. By executing strong leadership styles‚ Gandhi was able
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1. 1829 – Abolition of Sati System ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- This event is the most important in Indian History. India in ancient time was the place of high superstitions and much disbelief. Wives were to self-immolate themselves after the death of their husbands. The practice of this widow self-immolation was abolished by the great reformer of Bengal‚ Raja Ram Mohan Roy. With the help of Lord William Bentick‚ the then Governor-General
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developments as well as discoveries that are accrued to Indian important men. It is thought that these among other great men are entirely involved in making India one among the supreme nations in the world1. There are very many diverse sectors that India has registered a diverse and encouraging discoveries as well developments. Among them is Medicine‚ entertainment‚ industrialization at large among other social- economic activities. As a result‚ the Indian region has been registered among the hopeful developing
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had made important changes to their government that he commanded‚ including recognizing Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax for them. After travelling all over India to get to know himself with the country of which he knew nothing about‚ he dived into politics‚ and soon became the respected leader of the Indian nationalist movement. He single-handedly transformed the middle- and upper-class Indian National Congress into a national organization‚ bringing in large sections of disrespected
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here that his political career began. On behalf of the society he went to England to propagate Indian views and appeared before the Welby commission. On his return to India‚ he set up the Servants of India society in 1905‚ which involved people dedicated to working for the upliftment of the Indian people. He also edited a quarterly journal called the Sudharak . Gopal Krishna Gokhale entered the Indian National Congress at the Allahabad session. He became the general secretary of the party in the
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Patel ((Hindi: सरदार वल्लभ भाई पटेल (Hindi pronunciation: [ʋəlləbˈbʱaːi pəˈʈeːl] ( listen)) (31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950) was an Indian barrister and statesman‚ one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India. He is known to be a social leader of India who played an unparalleled role in the country’s struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united‚ independent nation. In India and elsewhere‚ he was often addressed as Sardar‚ which
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War begins. 1790 The Marathas under Holkar and General de Boigne defeat the Rajputs of Jaipur and Mughals at the Battle of Patan‚ where 3000+ Rajput cavalry is killed and the entire Mughal unit vanquished. The defeat crushes Rajput hope of independence from external influence 1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War ends. 1795 August 13 Death of Ahilyabai Holkar 1796
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suggestions given by the Indian Leaders. In Indian Act 1919‚ it was said that new reforms are introduced in Indian Act 1929. So they started coming up with for 1929 Act. In 1927 British Government appointed a commission to draft coming constitution that is referred to as Simon Commission. There was no representative of Indians in this Commission that’s why all the parties decided to boycott of this commission except Shafi League. There was great bitterness among Indians as a result of they were waiting
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Gandhi. The desire for a change in government could potentially have negative and positive impacts. Mohandas Gandhi was the leader of civil disobedience in India. Before the independence movement in India began‚ India was a British Colony since the 1760s. Prior to British imperialism and colonialism in India‚ many Indians hand craft their tools and clothes for survival. Since the British took over most of India due to the British’s commercial interests in the region of India. The British East India
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examination of Fanon’s perspective before analysing Gandhi’s with Fanon as a case for comparison. As a psychiatrist by profession‚ Fanon was working in French Algeria when the Algerian War of Independence took place‚ and he observed the violence from the conflict that led to Algeria’s eventual independence(UNCFSU‚
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