Great Britain leading to the Salt March and eventual Indian independence in 1947. In 1930 Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi‚ an Indian lawyer often regarded as the father of his country‚ sent a handwritten letter to the representative of the British crown in India‚ Viceroy Lord Irwin‚ which aimed to end Indian oppression through nonviolent means. Through his use of charged language and repetition‚ Gandhi conveys his desire for peace and justice along with the Indian people’s resentment of British colonial rule
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India has changed a great amount since the days of Gandhi. If he were to see where it is today‚ he probably would not recognize the country. There have been many changes in how people live their lives because of the change in government. Many of these political changes were sparked by Gandhi’s commitment to free India from British rule. His peaceful approach to protest continues to inspire many. He chose to make his own traditional loincloth-style clothing as a rejection of western culture‚ participated
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this novel to read‚ remarked that “we don’t learn anything about Mahatma Gandhi from it‚” a view many Indian readers would perhaps readily endorse. For us Indians the mere mention of Gandhi’s name conjures up the vision of a “man of God” who “trod on earth”‚ as Nehru described him in one of his speeches after Gandhi’s death. He was acclaimed a Mahatma and worshipped as an Avatar. Exasperated by Narayan’s handling of Gandhi in WFM my teacher Prof. C. D. Narasimhaiah had even suggested that Narayan would
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Gandhi addresses that the intent of speech is to declaring that he is going to be fighting for independance in a non-violent manner as violent efforts often end up in a dictatorship through a military coup. But‚ if his nonviolent efforts are attained there will be no room for a dictatorship and the newfound power will go to the people of India. At the time in India there a great dislike for the British and the British Imperial rule‚ Gandhi was trying to create an ideal
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Source 1 On-This-Day – Obituary. Assassination in India: A Leader of Will and Force; Indira Gandhi‚ Born to Politics‚ Left Her Own Imprint on India. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1119.html. Accessed 21/1/15. Origin: The article appeared in the New York Times‚ after Mrs Gandhi’s death. The article is an obituary written by the freelance journalist; Linda Charlton (deceased). Charlton was a former journalist with the New York Times for 10 years before going freelance.
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of courageous and strong leaders are Mahatma Gandhi and Maximilien Robespierre. While Gandhi and Robespierre have their differences‚ they both risked their lives while battling against the inequality among their people. Gandhi fought for the equality in India and Robespierre fought for the equality in France. Both of these brave men strived towards a country that did not treat people differently based on their race‚ social class or wealth. While Gandhi had a more peaceful and nonviolent way of defying
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our laws. From Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr.‚ we have seen the practice of nonviolent symbolic protests have a better outcome than wars. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2‚ 1869 in Porbandar‚ India. He is well known as the prominent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Gandhi got his start working in politics as a lawyer in South Africa. There‚ he supported the local Indian community’s struggle for civil rights. Gandhi carried his knowledge
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negative Indira Gandhi was the most corrupt politicians of all time . Her politics was so ugly that to remain in power and stay as uncrowned queen of India she imposed emergency in 1977 . She made extreme laws such as forcible vasectomy of men ( unmarried young men included ) to control population of India . She was an awful leader and one of the biggest criminal of all times . She ate away India financially and also caused a lot of mayhem . When Sikhs opposed her regime ( in worlds largest democracy
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My name is Indira Nehru Gandi and I was born on November 19‚ 1917 in Allahabad‚India. I studied in Visva-Bharati University‚ Somerville College‚and in the University of Oxford. I had a great passion for education because Education is a liberating force‚ and in our age it is also a democratizing force‚ cutting across the barriers of caste and class‚ smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. My father‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ led India’s political struggle for independence from
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achieving a goal. Mahatma Gandhi was the man who founded this form of protest. People‚ especially westerners‚ are astonished that this method of protest would work. They do not understand allowing people to harm you without retaliating would gain independence for India. To answer the question: How did Gandhi methods work? I would say that Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because of his clear communication‚ nonviolent tactics‚ and his commitment to India gaining independence. Gandhi wrote a letter to
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