Mohandas Gandhi

He did not change his name. He was called that by the people because Mahatma is sanskrit for Great Soul and Gandhi helped India struggle for independence from Britain which meant he had great soul.

Gandhi is one of the historic figures in the Indian history. He is the one who led India to its independence and also started so many movements to fight for civil rights.

beause he wanted freedom between Indian and Britain.

He led South African asians in opposition to Apartheid. Returning to India he led the Indian national congress. His policy was one of non-violent non-cooperation. He organised hunger strikes and civil disobedience, and campaigned for social reform, including religious tolerance and an end to discrimination against the so-called untouchable caste. The movement that Gandhiji started was first called "passive resistance", but he did not like that name because he thought that it did not suggest the meaning of their movement .He advertised a prize for another suitable name. Then one day a letter came to him from his nephew Maganlal that it should be named "sadagraha" , he (gandhiji) modified it, and it becme"satyagraha".

he had used the principle of non violence that is protesting and demanding the rights without violating the peace and harmony..he spread the teachings of ahimsa ie, without killing or destoying anyone....

Because he spoke the voice of a common man

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an advocate and pioneer of nonviolent social protest. He led the struggle for India's independence from British colonial rule and in 1939 he went on a hunger strike for peace.

Gandhi had four children, all with his wife, Kasturbai Makanji. They got married when they were both 13 years old and are both Hindu.

Gandhi was imprisioned 4 times in 1922,1930,1933 and 1942.

Although Gandhi was from a relativily wealthy family he decided he must help the poor. Gandhi also wanted India to be free from british rule. He and his followers held marches and processions, demanding fairness for all people, but, as in South Africa, at no time did gandhi allow the use of violence. Gandhi believed in ahimsa, non-violence

Gandhi also believed that as a Hindu he should try to detach himself from the material things of the world. He gave up his wealth and often choose to live among the poor instead. He dreamt of an India in which Hindus and other religious communities lived side by side without prejudice or discrimination. People would live a simple, spiritual life in villages rather than large towns or cities

"Hē Ram" ("Oh God")

Some say he said "Ram Ram"

he made his own clothes to sjow the British gov. you cant control me or my fellow nativies

Gandhi insisted on spinning his own cloth for multiple reasons. The first reason is to defy the British rules, what said that Indians must buy British products, so Gandhi defied this rule, as part of his acts of Civil Disobedience. I also believe that he wanted to show the British that he wasn't afraid to defy them in every aspect of life, including clothing. The second reason is that the burning of the clothes symbolized a conscious decision to throw off the most visible sign of that slavery and to re-embrace their true selves as Indians, rather than British pawns.

Gandhi tried to stop the war by not eating until the war ended.

On January 30th, 1948, he was walking slowly from his home to attend a prayer meeting when a thirty-nine years old Hindu called Nathuram Godse who mistakably thought Gandhi was harming the Hindus by being friendly to Muslims shot the Great Soul after respectfully bowing to him. (Click on picture for video) A few minutes later a man came out to the waiting crowd and announced that the little old man who sacrificed with all he had for his country, who reshaped the lives of many, who changed the path of the world, who inspired -and still will inspire- mankind till the end of the world was dead.

Faith gains in strength only when people are willing to lay down their lives for it. Faith is not like a delicate flower which would wither away. Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so-called or real, is the best safeguard. A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of [the] majority.

All I know that Gandhi and Mandela have in common is that they both had sort of the same goals in life! They both wanted for their own kind to have peace with others and to be more free than they were before!

One of his famous speeches is about equality and he said "it doesn't matter what we look like, black or white, we are all the same, and should therefore all be treated the same."

Mohandas Gandhi traveled to South Africa for work and later returned to India to free India from the British.

Sorry im not quite shure myself why Gandhi started a protest :(
Ghandi's people in India were treated as second class citizens by their ruler; Great Britain. Ghandi protested that.

I think that it was his trip to South Africa that changed him. That may have been his influence as he saw how there taxes and laws had made them poor and he didn't want the same for the rest of the world. the first protest he did was I think against "the salt Tax" hope I answered your question :)

Gandhi's salt march was successful- Britain made reforms that, while they did not give total freedom, gave limited rights to Indians. Two of them were local self governments, and local elections.

Kasturba Gandhi died of pneumonia. She had chronic bronchitis the last few years before her death and it went worse and she contracted pneumonia. Now she could have been saved but her husband, Mohandas Gandhi refused to give her Penicillin injections which were the only treatment then because they were 'British' and not Indian.

It's interesting to note that some months after this Gandhi himself contracted malaria and this time had no moral issues about taking Quinine (the first treatment for Malaria in those days) even though it wasn't Indian. In fact he even had appendectomy on his appendix even though it was British again. Though, it is important to note that Quinine is a natural cure.

One more thing... Gandhi's son Devdas had an argument at the time of his mother's illness because he wanted to give her the life saving Penicillin. But Gandhi still refused to give it to his wife.

A king sized bed!