Mahatma Gandhi As A Leader Olarogba Oluwasegun- 900179728 Business 204/001-Fall 2017 November 5, 2017 Professor Beatrice Galatan-Spitzer Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi) was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbander Gujarat. Ghandi was born into a middle-class family, he had his early education at Rajkot, he married to Kasturba. Then he went to England for higher studies. He was just an average student in his early childhood. Gandhi returned to India as barrister. He went to south Africa and did practice as a lawyer. He fought for the rights of Indians living there. He left his practice and came back to India. He worked for the freedom of India. He went to jail several times. He believed in truth and non-violence. He worked for religious unity and upliftment of untouchables. He started movements like “Satyagraha”, Non-cooperation and “Quit India movement” etc. he won freedom for India from British rule on 15 august 1947. He was a great humanitarian, he hated the evil but not the evil-doer. He did not nurse any ill-will even against his worst opponents. Gandhi was a pragmatist. Gandhi practiced whatever he preached. He respected all the religions of world. In his life and teachings, he assimilated the good points of all religions. He adopted non-violence from the Jain and Vaishnava saints, love and sacrifice from the life of Jesus Christ and Karmayoga from the Gita. (Hefner, P 2004). He treated truth at par with God.
Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India in 1869 and died in 1948. He was western educated, specifically trained in England. Although he was a nationalist, he was anti-modern because he was skeptical to industrialism. He believed in the ideal of satyagraha, the non-tolerance of evil, but also the understanding that violence is not the answer to that evil. He also believed in non-violence. He did not cooperate with anything British, specifically trading with the British, British schooling or products, and even paying taxes to the British. He served as a civil rights activist after being thrown off a train when refusing to move from his seat in first class. He became the leading member of Congress Party in the 1930’s and shortly after participated in the March to Sea for salt during the British imposed salt tax. Every single aspect of Gandhi’s life was peaceful, if the people around him decided to disobey and use violence as a means of getting what they wanted, Gandhi would take it upon himself to fast. He was eventually assassinated by a Hindus
Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India, which in that time was part of British Empire. Gandhi was unfortunately killed by a fanatic in 1948. His father and mother were Karamchand Gandhi, a chief minister and Putlibai Gandhi, a deeply religious woman who fasted regularly. Gandhi studied law and advocated for the civil rights of Indians. Gandhi became a leader of India’s Independence movement.
Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869 in the Indian coastal city of Porbandar (Background Essay). He then studied law in London, where he noticed that Indians were expected to imitate their rulers, the Englishmen (Background Essay). Gandhi wanted all people to live free, even those imposed by India’s caste system so he decided to take action in a peaceful manner (Background Essay). By doing so he was able to gain India’s independence in 1947 (Background Essay). This caused Gandhi to be known as “ Mahatma” or “ Great Soul” because he was able to do it without violence (Background Essay). Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because he accepted the consequences to his actions, strived for fairness to all mankind, and didn’t think of the British as enemies.
When he was born Great Britain was in control of India. He was born into a rich and wealthy family, he had left India to study law in London. Then after World War 1 had ended Gandhi has started a non-violent organization, his goal was to gain independence from Great Britain. He knew if he had tried to protest on the streets he would be sent to jail many times and would be beaten up harshly; however, he still done this knowing the consequences. When people in India had started to learn about the things that were happening they had started to agree with him and started to agree with his ideas. Then soon the whole world had known about the things that were happening in India. Martin Luther King Jr. was very influenced by Gandhi and he learned a lot from what he had done. About 60,000 people had joined his famous Salt March to allow India to make their own salt from
Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar India to a Hindu father and Jainist mother. His very religious mother was a practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu). Influenced by his mother's beliefs Gandhi was governed by self-discipline and nonviolence. He soon got married and sailed off to study law. When Gandhi returned he was in shock of what had happened to India, in just 1 year. Gandhi's beliefs never changed and he still strongly believed in self-discipline and nonviolence. He wanted to make a change in India’s cultures. And that’s exactly what he did, he made the change he saw in the world. Gandhi used many tactics to get India's independence, such as Civil disobedience, embracing the enemy, and acceptance of jail time.
Mahatma Gandhi is renowned all over the world for his nonviolent philosophies and impact upon civil rights. He was the primary leader of India’s move towards independence. Gandhi engineered a form of non-violent protest that would influence the world. He was born on 2nd October, 1869, in Porbandar, India. Gandhi studied law and advocated for the civil rights of Indians, and influenced many civil rights movements. Even after his death, Gandhi’s actions inspired future civil rights movements around the globe. He most notably impacted, civil rights movements in three regions of the world; South Africa, India and America.
Born on October 2nd, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi studied the law and spoke for the civil rights of the citizens of India both in India and South Africa to be freed from Great Britain. Gandhi became a leader of the Indians fight for independence, organizing boycotts against the British, in forms of civil disobedience. He was killed in 1948.
Before all of his, Gandhi was born on October 2nd 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India which was at the time apart of the British empire. He had what seemed to be a short childhood, marrying at thirteen years old in an arranged marriage with Kasturba Makanji. This soon caused his early rebel-teen years which was, “smoking, eating meat, and stealing change from household servants.” (Biography.com Editors 1). He had little interest in school, but kept average grades due to his father’s expectations in his academics. He went on to study western culture in London, England for three years and struggled through his studies. While staying there he started reading a variety of sacred texts about different religions, learning about the different cultures and beliefs of the world. Although he had a hard and difficult early life, he still came through to only break through bigger barriers in his future.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 to a Hindu Modh Baniya family. In India they often called him “Bapu” and “Gandhiji” which actually comes from the word “Gujarati” meaning father, he was the Father of the Nation. Gandhi became an expatriate lawyer in South Africa and that’s when he decided that he would fight nonviolently in the struggle for civil rights in India. He would help peasants, farmers, labourers protest against land-tax and discrimination. He led nationwide campaigns for poverty, women’s rights, building religious amity, and overall self-rule.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948), a past lawyer now world-renowned activist, led India’s independence movement from Great Britain through his praxis of Satyagraha to take it back from Colonial rule. To him “the greatest menace to the world today is growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.” Mahatma— meaning supreme soul— Gandhi showed his distaste towards British imperialism through non-cooperative and non-violent movements when he saw what had become on India on his return: use of culturally suffused symbols, Satyagraha— which is an emphasis on truth in the political field— and his ability to win the masses. Following World War I he returned to India from South Africa and became involved with the Indian National Congress and the
Mahatma Gandhi is most known for working for independence in India. He is seen as the father of the nation in India. He was born on October 2, 1869 and was killed by a fanatic in 1948. He made many contributions to the world.
The leather sandals slipped from his feet. Mahatma Gandhi's devoted his life mainly to help others, in Ahimsa, non-violence and Hindu - Muslim riots, he was largely inspired by the Gita- the Hindu holy book. Basically he believed everyone should have equal rights. His successes in life were when he studied law in England, got a job in South Africa, when he did the salt march, identified him self with the untouchables- which are India's poorest people.
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi was born during the British rule in India on October 2, 1869. Gandhi in the year of 1888 was sent to England to pursue law, where he developed interest in the philosophy of nonviolence as expressed in the holy Bhagawad Gita, a scared text of Hindu scriptures. However after passing the bar, he found little accomplishment in his attempt to practice law in India, which is when he accepted a position in South Africa, where he assisted on a lawsuit. (Mohandas Gandhi, 2015)
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi) was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbander Gujarat. Ghandi was born into a middle-class family, he had his early education at Rajkot, he married to Kasturba. Then he went to England for higher studies. He was an average student in his early childhood. He returned to India as barrister. He went to south Africa and did practice as a lawyer. He fought for the rights of Indians living there. He left his practice and came back to India. He had worked for the freedom of India. He went to jail several times. He believed in truth and non-violence. He worked for religious unity and upliftment of untouchables. He started movements like “Satyagraha”, Non-cooperation and “Quit India movement” etc. he won
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, widely known as “Mahatma Gandhi,” was popular for his involvement in the independence movement against the British rule of India, as well as advocating for the rights of Indians in South Africa. He was born in Porbandar, India, on October 2, 1869. Gandhi studied law and began organizing boycotts and other peaceful forms of civil disobedience against British institutions in an effort to reduce British influence on Indian culture, and ultimately, gain independence. Despite his fame as a peaceful protester, he was killed by a Hindu fanatic on January 30, 1948.