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It was a new world for young Mohan and offered immense opportunities to explore new ideas and to reflect on the philosophy and religion of his own country. Within weeks thousands of men and women were imprisoned, challenging the authority of the colonial rulers.
In March 1931, Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed to solve some constitutional issues, and this ended the Civil Disobedience.
In 1915 when Gandhiji returned from South Africa he had established his ashram at Kochrab near Ahmedabad. While Gandhiji was in jail his wife Kasturbai passed away. Gandhiji was a mediocre student and was excessively shy and timid. In the general elections held in Britain in 1945, Labour Party came to power, and Mr.Atlee became the Prime Minister. 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.
Initially he had difficulty in adjusting to English customs and weather but soon he overcame it. Gandhi had sailed to South Africa as a young inexperienced barrister in search of fortune. He had his schooling in nearby Rajkot, where his father served as the adviser or prime minister to the local ruler. He went on fast to death in protest and concluded only after the British accepted Poona Pact.
In 1933, he started weekly publication of Harijan replacing Young India.
On March 2, Gandhi addressed a letter to the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, informing him that unless Indian demands were met, he would be compelled to break the "salt laws". Though he called himself a ‘mediocre student’, he gave evidence of his reasoning, intelligence, deep faith in the principles of truth and discipline at very young age.
Unfortunately, political developments had moved favouring the partition of the country resulting in communal riots on a frightful scale. When he refused to do so, a constable pushed him out and his luggage was taken away by the railway authorities. 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”).
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