Mohandas Gandhi

Gandhi used the method of non-violence. He embarrassed them by alerting the media about the way they were being treated, he boycotted British goods, especially salt. Finally he broke unjust laws and went on hunger strikes when in jail to keep their attention

Early Life

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.

Did you know? In the famous Salt March of April-May 1930, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea. The march resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself.

Gandhi was appalled by the discrimination he experienced as an Indian immigrant in South Africa. When a European magistrate in Durban asked him to take off his turban, he refused and left the courtroom. On a train voyage to Pretoria, he was thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and beaten up by a white stagecoach driver after refusing to give up his seat for a European passenger. That train journey served as a turning point for Gandhi, and he soon began developing and teaching the concept of satyagraha (“truth and firmness”), or passive resistance, as a way of non-cooperation with authorities.

The Birth of Passive Resistance

In 1906, after the Transvaal government passed an ordinance regarding the registration of its Indian population, Gandhi led a campaign of civil disobedience that would last for the next eight years. During its final phase in 1913, hundreds of Indians living in South Africa, including women, went to jail, and thousands of striking Indian miners were imprisoned, flogged and even shot. Finally, under pressure from the British and Indian governments, the government of South Africa accepted a compromise negotiated by Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts, which included important concessions such as the recognition of Indian marriages and the abolition of the existing poll tax for Indians.

In July 1914, Gandhi left South Africa to return to India. He supported the British war effort in World War I but remained critical of colonial authorities for measures he felt were unjust. In 1919, Gandhi launched an organized campaign of passive resistance in response to Parliament’s passage of the Rowlatt Acts, which gave colonial authorities emergency powers to suppress subversive activities. He backed off after violence broke out–including the massacre by British-led soldiers of some 400 Indians attending a meeting at Amritsar–but only temporarily, and by 1920 he was the most visible figure in the movement for Indian independence.

Leader of a Movement

As part of his nonviolent non-cooperation campaign for home rule, Gandhi stressed the importance of economic independence for India. He particularly advocated the manufacture of khaddar, or homespun cloth, in order to replace imported textiles from Britain. Gandhi’s eloquence and embrace of an ascetic lifestyle based on prayer, fasting and meditation earned him the reverence of his followers, who called him Mahatma (Sanskrit for “the great-souled one”). Invested with all the authority of the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress Party), Gandhi turned the independence movement into a massive organization, leading boycotts of British manufacturers and institutions representing British influence in India, including legislatures and schools.

In 1934, Gandhi announced his retirement from politics in, as well as his resignation from the Congress Party, in order to concentrate his efforts on working within rural communities. Drawn back into the political fray by the outbreak of World War II, Gandhi again took control of the INC, demanding a British withdrawal from India in return for Indian cooperation with the war effort. Instead, British forces imprisoned the entire Congress leadership, bringing Anglo-Indian relations to a new low point.

Partition and Death of Gandhi

After the Labor Party took power in Britain in 1947, negotiations over Indian home rule began between the British, the Congress Party and the Muslim League (now led by Jinnah). Later that year, Britain granted India its independence but split the country into two dominions: India and Pakistan. Gandhi strongly opposed Partition, but he agreed to it in hopes that after independence Hindus and Muslims could achieve peace internally. Amid the massive riots that followed Partition, Gandhi urged Hindus and Muslims to live peacefully together, and undertook a hunger strike until riots in Calcutta ceased.

main reason are..

1- its aimed to resist british occupation in india through non violent means

2- indian protestor would refuse to buy british good

3- it aims to adopt the indian handicraft and picketed liquor shops

4- it aim,s to uphold the indian values of honour and intergrity

Gandhi protested in a non- violent way against british colonization by using salt marches, hunger strikes, and boycotts.

You do it with him when he asks You would show respect by taking what he says when he is being serious to heart, and really thinking about the best thing for the both of you, and letting him take charge like that. This rule goes into the bedroom, sure, but it is not limited to that. Make sure that your opinion is known to him, but that he takes the authority for the most part, though not without letting you know what is up whenever something is going down. Social situations are a biggie. You should try to never appear domineering over him, as that chafes his ego, and that ego is part of what protects you from the freaks, pervs, and ex-cons. Moderation is always a good choice, as you should make your prescence known at meals and such with other people, but not so much so that he feels snubbed or so that he feels antagonized by being talked over. Respect does go hand in hand with discipline, as going too far is showing a lack of self-discpline as well as a lack of respect for yourself and him too. And no, I am not married, or even engaged, nor do I have this down either, but I know that it willl work, as it is logical and Biblical.

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Mohandas Gandhi took a number of actions toward achieving peace for him and his people. The most notable thing that he did was going on a hunger strike.

That India opted for an entirely original path to solving this crisis and obtaining swaraj (independence) was due largely to Gandhi, commonly known as "Mahatma" (or Great Soul) or, as he himself preferred, "Gandhiji" (an honorific term for Gandhi). A native of Gujarat who had been educated in Britain, he was an obscure and unsuccessful provincial lawyer. Gandhi had accepted an invitation in 1893 to represent indentured Indian laborers in South Africa, where he stayed on for more than twenty years, emerging ultimately as the voice and conscience of thousands who had been subjected to blatant racial discrimination. He returned to India in 1915, virtually a stranger to public life but "fired with a religious vision of a new India, whose swaraj . . . would [be] a moral reformation of a whole people which would either convert the British also or render their Raj impossible by Indian withdrawal of support for it and its modern values," according to historian Judith M. Brown.

In an arranged marriage, which was custom in his region, Mahatma Gandhi got married at the age of 13. He married a 14 year old named Kasturbai Makhanji.

Harilal Gandhi

Harilal Mohandas Gandhi (Devanagari: हरीलाल गांधी), (1888 - 18 June 1948) was the eldest son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.Harilal wanted to go to England for higher studies and hoped to become a barrister as his father had once been. His father firmly opposed this, believing that a Western-style education would not be helpful in the struggle against British rule over India.Eventually rebelling against his father's decision, in 1911 Harilal renounced all family ties.

He converted to Islam for a brief time which did not bother his father who believed that all religions were to be respected. His mother felt he should not be publicly displaying this back-and-forth type of behavior.

Harilal was married to Gulab Gandhi. They had five children, two of whom died at an early age. Nilam Parikh, the daughter of Ramibehn, who was the eldest of Harilal's children has written a biography on him, titled Gandhiji's Lost Jewel: Harilal Gandhi.

He appeared at his father's funeral in such derelict condition that few recognized him. He died from liver disease on 18 June 1948 in a municipal hospital in Bombay, Union of India.

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It showed that the British did not have control over the Indians and it was a way to gain independence and to be freed of British Raj. It showed that even the power of the British military could not stop them and arrest them all.

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Yes.

The British had imposed salt tax.

Mahatma Gandhi wanted to highlight the injustice of British Rule. Salt was a item of common use, a very basic item. The Mahatma realized that by highlighting the fact the something as basic as salt was taxed by a foreign power, he would be able to stir the common masses.

Taxing salt is something like imposing tax on air. A just power, a just ruler would never do it. Mahatma wanted to highlight the fact that the British rule was inherently unjust. It not only looted the country but also taxed even the very basic requirement of an individual.

Such was his understanding and his connect with the common masses, that Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha mobilized the entire country.

In 1919 a massacre took place at Jalianwala Bagh in which nearly about 2thousand Indians were killed by General Dyer and his men without any official warning. These thousands of people were gathered at Jalianwala bagh for a meeting of Congress. General Dyer fired so rudely that can't be expressed in words. The holes made by his men gun are there in walls. Many of them died by jumping into the well. They thought that by doing so they would be saved from dieing by the fire of a britisher. This well is also there nowadays.