Mahatma Gandhi's Civil Disobedience

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

In conclusion, Mahatma Gandhi was the primary leader of India’s independence movement and also the architect of a form of non-violent civil disobedience that would influence the world. He died sadly in 1948 when. Around one million people followed the precision as Gandhi’s body was carried in state through the streets of the

Thesis: A true leader, an anti-war activist, and the leader of India’s independence movement, Mohandas Gandhi was a man of great significance.

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.

Gandhi was always an active member in equality for the Indian people especially after he was denied to keep studying law in England and was kicked off the first class train so he stayed in India and decided to practice hinduism. He lived the rest of his life out telling people to follow the nonviolent disobedience and “on January 30, 1948, he was on one such prayer vigil in New Delhi when he was fatally shot by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist who objected to Gandhi’s tolerance for the Muslims” (History.com Staff).

Born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandor, Kathiawar, India, Mahatmas Karmachord Gandhi was the son of Karmchand Gandhi, chief minister, and Putlibai, who was deeply religious lived in part of the British Empire (Biography.com Editors). With early marriages common, Mahatmas married at age 1 (Housel, Debra. Pp. 73-75). Mahatmas married Kasturba Makanji, the merchant’s daughter. As a result of the marriage, the teenagers rebelled by smoking, eating meat, and stealing money from household servants. Althrough Mahatmas had a rebellious attitude, Mahatmas was a shy, remarkable student, who was so timid that he slept with the lights on even as a teenager. In 1885, Mahatmas’s father passed as well as his first young child. With an interest in becoming a doctor, Mahatmas’s family steered him to enter the legal profession just as his father wanted him to be a government minister. In 1891, Mahatmas’s mother passed. With grief, Mahatmas struggled in being a lawyer (Biography.com Editors). Mahatmas’s mother was very religious and a devoted practioner of Vaishnavism, self-discipline, and nonviolence (History.com Staff). As a result of this, Mahatmas grew up worshipping the Hindu God, Vishnu, and followed Jainism, an ancient Indian religion that stressed nonviolence, fasting, meditation, and vegetarianism. In 888, Mahatmas moved to London and struggled with the transition to the Western Culture. Mahatmas

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.

Gandhi studied law and spent a lot of time fighting against discriminatory legislation in South Africa. Through his ideal of Satyagraha, he inspired others and is now an extremely important figure in the history of the world (Gokhale). His main goal was to achieve equality for the poorest caste (previously known as the Untouchables) and he went against the taxation that they faced. He was very socially aware and even fought for women’s equality as well as ending the caste-system.

A vocal minority should not be in control over an oppressed majority. History has repeated itself in correcting bent ways of society, seen through the Civil Rights Movement, the Confederates vs. the Union, slaves against slave-owners, and India as a country, as opposed to a British Colony. Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience had an influence on most all modern acts of clearing corruption, including the works of the Mahatma, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Noted in Thoreau’s essay is that “the practical reason why a majority are permitted to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right… but because they are physically the

He married at the early age of 13. Once he finished elementary school, he attended an all-boys high school. After high school, he decided to leave India and went to study law in London. After finishing the 4 years and passing the bar exam he went back to India. He was first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident nation community struggle for civil rights. Gandhi’s goal was for India to gain independence from the British Empire. He fought British tyranny. Although fighting for the independence of India, this wasn’t the only civil rights movement he was involved in. He spent 20 years in South Africa opposing institutional discrimination against Indians. Following Indian independence in 1947, Gandhi attempted to mediate the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal. He was assassinated in

Gandhi, the civil rights leader was a racist neo-nazi. This leader born in 1888 to a family of three siblings in New Delhi, India(Doeden 9). He worked as a civil-rights leader where he gained popularity and publicity. “All that changed at 9:20am on 31 October 1984”(Singh 1). When Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a right-wing activist shot and killed him. The assassination of Gandhi was just because he was a racist and neo-nazi who wanted Hitler to rule; however, many see him as a saintly civil-rights leader.

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 into a Hindu family. As he grew up, Gandhi was strongly influenced by many other religions. Eventually he developed his own unique ideas about religion and philosophy. After finishing school, Gandhi spent 20 years in southern Africa working on an Indian civil rights. When he returned to India he established a " Ashram " or a religious community, This Ashram did not follow any particular orthodoxy ( " authorized or generally accepted theory, or practice. " ) but instead was based on mutual aid and the principle of non-violence.

Gandhi had to deal with a lot of things in his lifetime. He was born in October 2, 1869. He studied law in London but in 1893 moved to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. He had lots of names for himself

Mohandas K. Gandhi`s writing in the Autobiography (1927) can be interpreted as a cascade of significant events throughout his life that led to him becoming one of the most universally recognized icon on earth. Gandhi is able to find a meaning in each event of his life that attaches him to the notions of non-violence, liberation, and decolonization. In this specific writing by Gandhi, it highlights little events such as his childhood where he treated it as an experiment stage, doing things like smoking and eating meat which were looked down up. From these experiences he understood concepts like ahisma and adharm. Deeper into the text, Gandhi talks about complication`s that arise in his life. Things like being kicked out of his caste because he chose to go to England to study Law and despite going through all the training and education he opposed by the Law society due to his colour in terms of admission to the Supreme Court as a lawyer. Despite these events, Gandhi was able to recognize that it is not necessarily important for him to simply tag along but he felt that he was now obligated to speak up and question individuals, organizations, and the government. He was able to realize that with his knowledge in law (political) and his values derived from religion (metaphysical) he had the tools to overcome societal issues (civil).