Mahatma Gandhi: The Crucible Martyr

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

The leader of the peace, Gandhi, had been imprisoned for his acts of “crimes against the British government. He was tried for conspiring to overthrow the government. Mohandas pleaded guilty; unfortunately he was imprisoned for six years. He fought for his country in a non-violent way and owned up to his actions and did not run away from the consequences. Gandhi was released two years later and the remaining sentence was dropped.

Gandhi urged the Indian people to create their own clothing. In March of 1930, Gandhi and 78 followers marched to the sea to collect salt. When he and his followers reached the sea, "He walked onto the beach and picked up a lump of salt in defiance of the Salt Acts," (Rau 84). This was of the most important, and most memorable, act by Gandhi. On August 15, 1947, India finally became free from the British rule. After India became free, Muslims and Hindus fought, so India was divided in two. Gandhi decided to fast to get the two groups to settle their differences. Nathuram Godse was a Hindu Extremist and killed Gandhi on January 30, 1948. One of Gandhi's most famous quotations is, "Be the change you wish to see in the world," (Gandhi). This shows that to make a change, people can't tell others what to do, but they should do it themselves. Gandhi did not just say to make a change, he made the change himself. For doing things Gandhi thought were right, he was imprisoned 4 times throughout his life. "Gandhi had been a light to the people of India and to the world. [...] He proved that truth and love are the strongest forces for change," (Rau 101). Gandhi inspired many people in the world and he did all of this to create a better life for others.

Mohandas Gandhi was known all over the world for his nonviolent philosophy of passive resistance. He returned to India from South Africa in 1914 and within years he emerged as a key figure in the Indian struggle for independence. Gandhi had the mindset that he was prepared to die in order to achieve this goal. Throughout…...Gandhi positively affected human society when completing his lifetime goals which were ending untouchability, uniting Hindus and Muslims in India and gaining independence from the British.

Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was a chief minister who had many wives before Gandhi's mother who all died in childbirth. Ganhi's mother was a deeply religious woman practicing the Hindu faith of the god Vishnu. When he was nineteen, Gandhi left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. Upon returning to India in 1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but had little success. He soon accepted a position of law with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. He remained in South Africa for nearly twenty years with his wife and four sons.

When Gandhi was taken into court here for the first time, he was asked to take off his turban and in response, he refused and left the court (Gandhi, 89). It was in South Africa that Gandhi first got involved in campaigns of civil disobedience and protest and eventually established the first anti-colonial political organization in the country (Nanda). In South Africa, Gandhi was sentenced to four terms of imprisonment all for breaching laws that discriminated against Indians and he felt violated their freedom (Nanda). After over two decades in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and became the leader of the Indian Nationalist movement that fought for home rule (Biography.com). Due to Gandhi’s methods of protest being non-violent, it was difficult for the British government to find a reason to put a halt to his actions. Gandhi was unlike other Indian independence activists as he did not advocate direct action to overthrow the British and he would even go as far as discontinuing strikes and protests if he heard plans of rioting and violence (Tejvan). In 1930, Gandhi led a march to the sea in protest of the new Salt Acts to make their own salt in violation of British regulations. In response, hundreds were arrested and Indian jails were full of Indian independence followers. At the point where

Gandhi inspired his followers through his principles and protests for which he was also sent to prison on various occasions. He was determined that his beliefs would finally attain swaraj(independence).

There many historical moments in indian history still every kid is taught starting from first grade about Gandhi, how Gandhi lived, suffered and died for his belief in ahimsa and satyagraha. For generations in India Gandhi has been remembered as a patriot, freedom fighter, greatest politician ever and much more. When Gandhi was born India was being ruled by British and when he died India was a free nation due to his efforts to achieve freedom through nonviolent moments. For his contribution the fellow indians call him father of nation.

In Gandhi’s early life (30 to early 40’s) he accomplished life changing events that set him on a path that leads to helping all kinds of people. His first major influence was when he fought against racial discrimination in South Africa in 1893. At the time of his arrival he faced common discrimination against people of color. The Natal Assembly was going to make a law that banned voters that were not of European origin. Another influence he had was in 1906 in South Africa. There was a law placed that required all Asian men who were in the Transvaal Province to be fingerprinted and have a form of pass. So Gandhi started the Satyagraha (AKA truth force) campaign of nonviolent resistance. He advised that Indians defy the law and take the punishments that come with the act of rebelliousness. This movement got more serious in 1914 when there was a £3 tax on ex-indentured Indians and the state refused to acknowledge Indian marriages. Satyagraha went on for 7 years, during which thousands of Indians were put into cuffs and

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi, the hero of the Indian Independence struggle, was the architect of a form of non-violent civil disobedience that would influence the world. Mahatma Gandhi studied both law and religion and advocated for the civil rights of Indians, both at home under British rule and in South Africa. Gandhi became a leader of India’s independence movement, organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience

Gandhi was born on the coastal regions of Gujarat in a Hindu Bania community in the family of a senior government official Karamchand Gandhi. His mother Putlibai was his father's fourth wife. The first three wives died during child birth. His mother was a Jain and Gandhi was strongly influenced by Jain traditions and customs (Erikson, 1969).

     At age 13, Gandhi was married to a girl of the same age named Kasturbai. After the death of his father, Mohandas’s family sent him to England to study

Mahatma Gandhi was born in the Porbandar city of Gujarat in october 2nd, 1869. His father name is Karamchand Gandhi, the diwan of Porbandar, and his wife, Putlibai. Since his mother was a Hindu of the Pranami Vaishnava order, Gandhi learned the tenets of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting, mutual tolerance, etc, at a very tender age. Mohandas was married at the age of 13 to Kasturba Makhanji and had four sons. He passed the matriculation exam at Samaldas College of Bhavanagar. In the year 1888, Gandhi went to University College of London to study as a barrister.