Tuvshinbayar nainan biography of mahatma gandhi
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Destiny gave another cruel blow to Gandhiji, when Kasturbai, his wife and companion for 62 years, died on 22 February 1944.
Gandhiji was released from prison as his health was on decline. (5) A willingness to suffer and die for his principles. Gandhi served as a medical attendant in this war.). He asked the Indians to boycott foreign cloth and promote hand spun khadi thus creating work for the villagers.
He was married, at the age of thirteen, when still in high school, to Kasturbai who was of the same age, and had four sons named Harilal, Ramdas, Manilal and Devdas. He believed that the way people behave is more important than what they achieve. Gandhiji fasted in support of workers. The magistrate postponed the trial and released him without bail and the case against him was withdrawn.
Satyagraha promoted nonviolence and civil disobedience as the most appropriate methods for obtaining political and social goals. The Indian people called Gandhi 'Mahatma', meaning Great Soul. Gandhi grew up in a Vaishnava household with a strong Jain influence that emphasised non-violence, fasting, tolerance, and self-restraint.
Religion and Core Values
Gandhi’s beliefs were shaped by Vaishnavism and Jain traditions.
They did not quite know why; they did not quite know what he stood for. These were important issues in his agenda of constructive work – essential programmes to go with Satyagraha.
On March 12 1930, Gandhiji set out with 78 volunteers on historic Salt March from Sabarmati Ashram; Ahmedabad to Dandi, a village on the sea coast .This was an important non violent movement of Indian freedom struggle.
Gandhiji’s message of ‘Do or Die’ engulfed millions of Indians. He was highly influenced by Thoreau, Tolstoy, Ruskin, and above all the life of Jesus Christ. He established in May 1910 Tolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg on the similar ideals of Phoenix Ashram.
In 1913, to protest against the imposition of 3 Pound tax and passing immigration Bill adversely affecting the status of married women, he inspired Kasturbai and Indian women to join the struggle.
Influenced by John Ruskin’s Unto This Last, he set up Phoenix Ashram near Durban, where inmates did manual labour and lived a community living.
Gandhiji organized a protest in 1906 against unfair Asiatic Regulation Bill of 1906. This period in prison was of bereavement for Gandhiji. In September 1932, Gandhiji faced the complex issue of the British rulers agreeing for the separate electorates for untouchables.
Gandhiji and other Congress leaders were imprisoned in Aga Khan Palace near Pune.