Mariko oi biography of mahatma gandhi
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At the end of 3 days both the parties agreed on arbitration. India attained independence but Jinnah's intransigence resulted in the partition of the country. On 15 August 1947, when India became independent, free from the British rule, Gandhiji fasted and prayed in Calcutta.
On 30th January 1948, Gandhiji, on his way to the prayer meeting at Birla House, New Delhi, fell to the bullets fired by Nathuram Vinayak Godse.
As observed by Louis Fischer, “Millions in all countries mourned Gandhi’s death as a personal loss.
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. Gandhiji and other Congress leaders were imprisoned in Aga Khan Palace near Pune. Though his elders objected, Gandhi could not be prevented from leaving; and it is said that his mother, a devout woman, made him promise that he would keep away from wine, women, and meat during his stay abroad.
Subhash Chandra Bose had called him ‘Father of the Nation’ in his message on Hind Azad Radio.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, a small town in Gujarat, on the sea coast of Western India. Gandhiji’s message of ‘Do or Die’ engulfed millions of Indians. They arrived there on April 5th: Gandhi picked up a small lump of natural salt, and so gave the signal to hundreds of thousands of people to similarly defy the law, since the British exercised a monopoly on the production and sale of salt.
With this incident evolved the concept of Satyagraha. But he returned to India in 1915 as Mahatma.
As advised by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Gandhiji spent one year travelling in India and studying India and her people. He suggested the formation of an association to look after the Indian settlers and offered his free time and services.
In the course of his struggle in South Africa, Gandhiji, developed the concepts of Ahimsa (non-violence) and Satyagraha (holding fast to truth or firmness in a righteous cause).
British Government wanted India's help in the war and Congress in return wanted a clear-cut promise of independence from British government. Predictably, his letter was received with bewildered amusement, and accordingly Gandhi set off, on the early morning of March 12, with a small group of followers towards Dandi on the sea.
The new government that came to power in Britain under Clement Atlee was committed to the independence of India, and negotiations for India’s future began in earnest. Gandhiji's call roused the sleeping nation. Born in a family in Kathiawar, Gujarat, his real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (M.K. In view of his deteriorating health he was released from the jail in May 1944.
At the outset of World War II, Gandhi and the Congress leadership assumed a position of neutrality: while clearly critical of fascism, they could not find it in themselves to support British imperialism. Soon the British Government arrested Gandhiji and other top leaders of Congress.