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Title: THE LIFE OF GANDHI


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THE LIFE OF GANDHI
  • BY AMEL BEGIC
  • CAPUCHIN HIGH SCHOOL
  • MR. HINMAN

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THE LIFE OF GANDHI
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October
    2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
  • He was educated in law at University College,
    London.

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  • In 1891, after having been admitted to the
    British bar, Gandhi returned to India and
    attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay.

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  • Two years later, an Indian firm retained him as a
    legal adviser in its office in Durban.
  • In Durban, Gandhi was treated as a member of an
    inferior race.

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  • He wanted to change the elementary rights for
    Indian immigrants in South Africa.

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  • Gandhi remained in South Africa for 20 years,
    where he experienced imprisonment many times.

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  • In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by white
    South Africans, Gandhi began to teach a policy of
    passive resistance.

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  • Part of Gandhis inspiration comes from the
    Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, whom Gandhi admired
    very much.

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  • During the Boer War, Gandhi organized an
    ambulance corps for the British army and
    commanded a Red Cross unit.

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  • In 1910, he founded a cooperative colony for
    Indians called Tolstoy Farm. It was located near
    Durban.

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  • In 1914 the government of the Union of South
    Africa made important concessions to Gandhis
    demands, including recognition of Indian
    marriages and abolition of the poll tax.

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  • Gandhi arrived back in Bombay, India in 1915.
  • Europe has already fallen into World War I by
    this time.

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  • He became the leader of the Indian campaign for
    home rule.
  • Following WWI, he launched his movement of
    non-violent resistance to Great Britain.

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  • In 1919, Parliament passed the Rowlatt Acts,
    which gave the Indian colonial authorities
    emergency powers to deal with revolutionary
    activities.

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  • Gandhis teachings spread throughout India,
    gaining millions of followers.

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  • Activities against the Rowlatt Acts resulted in a
    massacre of Indians at Amritsar by British
    soldiers.
  • There were 1,516 casualties.

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  • Mayhem ruled the streets of India.
  • Gandhi was arrested, but the British were soon
    forced to release him.

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  • Economic independence for India, involving the
    complete boycott of British goods, was made of
    Gandhis self-ruling movement.

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  • Gandhi lived a spiritual and ascetic life of
    prayer, fasting and meditation.
  • He wore the clothes of the lowliest Indian.

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  • Indians saw him as a saint and began calling him
    Mahatma (Great-soul).
  • He thought that by using non-violence, Britain
    would also consider violence useless.

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  • In 1921, the Indian National Congress gave Gandhi
    complete executive authority.

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  • Series of armed revolts broke out against Great
    Britain, and Gandhi ended the campaign of the
    civil-disobedience.

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  • The British government again imprisoned Gandhi in
    1922.
  • After he was released in 1924, he tried to stay
    away from active politics, but he couldnt.

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  • In 1930, Gandhi founded a new campaign which
    called upon the Indian population to refuse to
    pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt.

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  • The campaign was a march, in which thousands of
    Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmedabad to the
    Arabian Sea.

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  • He was arrested once more, but released in 1931.
  • In the same year Gandhi represented the Indian
    National Congress at a conference in London.

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  • While imprisoned, Gandhi undertook a fast unto
    death to improve the status of the Untouchables
    in 1932.

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  • Although he was a member of the merchant caste,
    Gandhi was dedicated to stop the unjust caste
    system in india.

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  • Gandhi formally resigned from politics in 1934
    after being replaced as a leader of the Congress
    by Jawaharlal Nehru.

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  • In 1939, Gandhi again returned to active
    political life because of the pending federation
    of Indian principalities with the rest of India.

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  • His first action was a fast which would improve
    the rule of the state of Rajkot.

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  • The public upset caused by the fast was so big
    that the government had to meet the demands.

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  • By 1944, the British government has agreed to
    independence if the two religious groups resolve
    their differences.

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  • India and Pakistan became separate countries
    after the British agreed to independence in 1947.

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  • Gandhi took on another successful fast in New
    Delhi to bring peace.

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  • Gandhi was assassinated on January 30th, 1948 by
    a Hindu.
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