It has been not quite a century since Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948 at the age of 78 in New Delhi, India. The bevy of hagiographies written about him is now being replaced with truth-telling biographies about the Gandhi nobody knew.
The most recent one is titled Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld.
And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover.
While one would think, at first glance, reading Lelyveld's shocking revelations about Gandhi, it's all tabloid fodder for a rapacious audience that diets on sordid tales, Lelyveld, former editor of the New York Times, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, pays meticulous attention to details.
Between 1908 and 1910, Gandhi left his wife to be with wealthy German-Jewish bodybuilder and architect Hermann Kallenbach. But the only evidence Lelyveld gives the reader, suggesting the bonding of the two men was at least homoerotic if not homosexual, is a salacious one-liner where Gandhi allegedly told Kallenback, "How completely you have taken possession of my body. This is slavery with a vengeance." According to Gandhi's own wife, Gandhi engaged in heterosexual intercourse, but it repulsed him so much it actually made him physically ill, and he vowed never to attempt it again.
He suggested an agreement that required the Congress and the Muslim League to cooperate and attain the independence under a provisional government.
he achived some of his goals like getting the britsish to leave India but did not sucsed in keeping huindu and muslum together
August 14, 1947
Gandhi and his non violence movement played a big part in India s independence struggle. Gandhi was the main inspiration for movement for indian independence. He led the campaign to defeat colonialism in this country, and for that reason he is honoured as the father of the nation. It was during world war two he led to quit india campaign to get britain to leave india immediately.
After his efforts and experiments in South Africa, when Gandhi entered the Indian politics, he realised that Indians are basically peace loving believing in non-violence. He adopted these methods and involved the poorest of the poor into his movements. The call for Swarajya and Swadeshi that he inherited from his predecessors and political gurus like Bal Ganga Dhar Tilak, Dadabhoy Naroaji, Swami Dayanand helped him to fight for the end of the British rule in India.
It was to get the British out of India by not doing their jobs and going on strike. this devastating final bow made the British leave India, and let it be it's own free country.
It was getting the British to leave India without having to fight them, militarily.
August 1947
Gandhi was a peaceful leader opposed to British occupation of India. Rather than advocate bloody conflicts, he chose to use peaceful strikes among his fellow countrymen to place pressure on the British to leave India.
after many protests
It was a day decided by the Indian politicians to protest and to force the British to leave India for good . This movement was called the quit India movement.
yes
he achived some of his goals like getting the britsish to leave India but did not sucsed in keeping huindu and muslum together
Gandhi went to jail many times because he wanted india to be independent and the britishers won't going to leave very easily, so he went against the british law and performed many crimes.(which is what the britishers would say.)His "crimes" inspired the people of india to make revolutions and the britishers left india
in 1947
August 14, 1947
India left the British Empire in 1947 because became independent.
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