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    Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869 in India and went on to become a prominent leader in India's independence movement. He advocated for non-violent civil disobedience and helped organize mass protests against British rule. Some of his notable campaigns included satyagraha in South Africa to fight discrimination faced by Indian immigrants and the Salt March to protest the British salt tax. His leadership and strategy of non-violent resistance were influential in India gaining independence from British rule in 1947. However, he was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist.

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    Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869 in India and went on to become a prominent leader in India's independence movement. He advocated for non-violent civil disobedience and helped organize mass protests against British rule. Some of his notable campaigns included satyagraha in South Africa to fight discrimination faced by Indian immigrants and the Salt March to protest the British salt tax. His leadership and strategy of non-violent resistance were influential in India gaining independence from British rule in 1947. However, he was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist.

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    Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869 in India and went on to become a prominent leader in India's independence movement. He advocated for non-violent civil disobedience and helped organize mass protests against British rule. Some of his notable campaigns included satyagraha in South Africa to fight discrimination faced by Indian immigrants and the Salt March to protest the British salt tax. His leadership and strategy of non-violent resistance were influential in India gaining independence from British rule in 1947. However, he was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist.

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    Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869 in India and went on to become a prominent leader in India's independence movement. He advocated for non-violent civil disobedience and helped organize mass protests against British rule. Some of his notable campaigns included satyagraha in South Africa to fight discrimination faced by Indian immigrants and the Salt March to protest the British salt tax. His leadership and strategy of non-violent resistance were influential in India gaining independence from British rule in 1947. However, he was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist.

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    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more

    commonly
    known
    as
    Mahatma
    (meaning Great Soul) was born in
    Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West
    India, on 2nd October 1869, into a
    Hindu Modh family. His father was the
    Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his
    mothers religious devotion meant that
    his upbringing was infused with the
    Jain pacifist teachings of mutual
    tolerance, non-injury to living beings
    and vegetarianism.

    Known for : Prominent figure of


    Indian Independence Movement,
    propounding the SATYAGRAHA and
    AHIMSA, advocating non-violence,
    pacifism
    Cause of Death: Assasination (January
    30, 1948- 78 years)

    Religion: Hinduism

    A mediocre student
    Married at the age of 13- Kasturba
    Makhanji
    Interested in becoming a doctor
    His father want him to be a
    government minister- legal profession
    He went to London, England to study
    law

    Embracing Westernian Culture

    Meatless diet, joined Executive


    Committee of the London
    Vegetarian Society, started to read
    a variety of sacred texts to learn
    more about the world religions

    Gandhi in South Africa- Spiritual


    and Political Leader
    discrimation and racial segregation faced by Indian immigrants
    deprive the Indians the right to vote
    1. Natal Indian Congress
    If Indians expected to have full rigths o citizenship in the British Empire, they
    also need to shoulder their responsibilities

    2. continued

    to study world religions


    The religious spirit within me became a living
    force he adopted a life of simplicity, austerity
    and celibacy that was a free of material goods

    3. organized his 1st mass civildisobedience campaign


    (SATYAGRAHA- truth and firmness)
    Refusal to recognize Hindu
    marriage
    Abolition of a Poll tax for Indians

    Fight for Indian Liberation


    Mahatma- Great Soul
    devoted himself to a prayer, fasting and meditation
    *imprisonment to those suspected of sedition
    he called for peaceful protests and strikes but violence
    broke out
    AMRITSAR MASSACRE

    mass boycotts
    urged the government officials to
    stop working for the crown
    students to stop attending
    government schools
    Soldiers to live their posts
    Citizen to stop paying taxes and
    purchasing British goods

    Portable
    spinning wheela symbol of
    Indian
    Independence
    and self- reliance

    The Salt March


    British Salt Act
    My ambition is no less than to convert the British
    people through non-violence and thus make them
    see the wrong they have done to India, he wrote
    days before the march to the British viceroy, Lord
    Irwin. Wearing a homespun white shawl and
    sandals and carrying a walking stick,

    1930- Time Magazine Man of


    the Year

    The Road to Independence

    August 15, 1947


    Indian National Congress
    Government of Indian Act (1935)
    Separation of Indian government for Indian provinces
    Participation in the law making body
    Right to vote

    Assasinated by Nathuram Godsewas executed in Nov. 1949

    When it (violence) appears to do good, the good is only

    temporary; the evil it does is permanent.


    "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and
    what you do are in harmony."
    "Hate the sin, love the sinner."
    "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and
    photographers."
    "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an
    ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean
    does not become dirty."
    "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat,
    for it is momentary."
    "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

    Be the change you


    want to see in the
    world

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