Cielito del mundo biography of mahatma gandhi
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No doubt, he also improved the lives of India's poor people. He accused Gandhi of favoring Pakistan and was opposed to the doctrine of non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi: Literary works
Gandhi was a prolific writer. At this time Gandhiji received an offer from Dada Abdulla & Co. to proceed to South Africa on their
behalf to instruct their counsel in a lawsuit.
Mahatma Gandhi popularly known as Father of Nation played a stellar role in India's freedom struggle. Same year in 1918, Gandhiji led a Satyagraha for the peasants of Kheda in Gujarat.
In 1919, he called for Civil Disobedience against Rowlatt Bill.
Unfortunately, political developments had moved favouring the partition of the country resulting in communal riots on a frightful scale. Gandhiji was not satisfied with his studies at Samaldas College and so he became excited by the London proposal and managed to convince his mother and wife that he will not touch non-veg, wine, or women.
Off to London
In the year 1888, Mahatma Gandhi left for London to study law.
Godse was a Hindu nationalist and a member of the Hindu Mahasabha. 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. Same year he started his weeklies Young India in English and Navajivan in Gujarati.
In 1921, Gandhiji took to wearing loin cloth to identify himself with poor masses and to propagate khadi, hand spun cloth.
He got deeply interested in vegetarianism and study of different religions. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
READ| Champaran Satyagraha of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi: Death
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse.
Soon the British Government arrested Gandhiji and other top leaders of Congress. Gandhiji was arrested on May 4. Paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his death, famous scientist Albert Einstein said, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a man as this walked the earth in flesh and blood". A Cabinet Mission arrived from England to discuss with Indian leaders
the future shape of a free and united India, but failed to bring the Congress and Muslims together.
In 1942 Gandhiji launched an individual Satyagraha. His father, Karamchand Gandhi, was a Dewan or Prime Minister of Porbandar. He joined Samaldas college in Bhavnagar in 1888 at Gujarat.
This incident changed Gandhiji's life forever. Now after year’s travel, Gandhiji moved his ashram on the banks of Sabarmati River near Ahmedabad and called it Satyagraha Ashram.
His first Satyagraha in India was at Champaran, Bihar in 1917 for the rights of peasants on indigo plantations.