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16 hours ago · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [c] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
1 day ago · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
3 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Indian Independence, Satyagraha: For the next three years, Gandhi seemed to hover uncertainly on the periphery of Indian politics, declining to join any political agitation, supporting the British war effort, and even recruiting soldiers for the British Indian Army.
Jun 9, 2024 · Gandhi’s satyagraha in turn influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement and Nelson Mandela in his struggle against apartheid.
5 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Resistance, India: Gandhi was not the man to nurse a grudge. On the outbreak of the South African (Boer) War in 1899, he argued that the Indians, who claimed the full rights of citizenship in the British crown colony of Natal, were in duty bound to defend it.
1 day ago · The mass movements sparked nationalist sentiment with the Indian populace and figures like Mahatma Gandhi united a nation behind his non-violence movement; philosophy and undoubtedly put crucial pressure on the British occupation.
2 days ago · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (en gujarati : મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, Mohandās Karamcaṃd Gāndhī, API : /ˈmoː.ɦən.d̪aːs ˈkə.rəm.t͡ʃənd̪ ˈɡaːn.d̪ʱi/ Écouter ), né à Porbandar ( Gujarat) le 2 octobre 1869 et mort assassiné à Delhi le 30 janvier 1948, est un dirigeant politique important, guide spirituel de l' Inde et du mouvement pour l'indépendance de c...
