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- 1. Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi was born in Indian Hindu family on 2 October, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat. His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His father name was Karamchand Gandhi, he was served as Diwan of Porbandar, Rajkot and Zamindari. Gandhis mother name was Putlibai who was from Pranami Vaishnava Hindu family. Mahatma Gandhi at the age of 9 he studied in Porbandar and he was an average student, won some prizes but was a shy student with no interest in game. At the age of 11 he went to high school Rajkot, while at high school Gandhis elder brother introduced him to a Muslim friend named Sheikh Mehtab was older in age taller and encouraged to eat meat to gain height. In May 1883, in the age of 13 years he got married to 14 years old Kasturba Makhanji Kapadia, short name is Kasturba which was arranged marriage and they had four sons who were Harilal, Manilal,
- 2. Mahatma Gandhi Ramdas and Devdas.Harishchandra had a great impression on Gandhi in his childhood. After, study Gandhi went to England for law education. His time in England in English culture including dancing lesson. He could not praise the vegetarian food offered by his landlady and maximum time he feel hungry until he found one of Londons few vegetarian restaurant .Gandhi had a friendly relationship with the president of London vegetarian society. After returning back he started the practice of law in Mumbai. Mahatma Gandhi was the follower of truth and non-violence. In April 1893, Gandhi aged 23, he went to South Africa to be the lawyer for Abdullahs cousin, and he spend 21 years in South Africa where he developed his political, truth, force, rules and moral values. But at South Africa in 1914 Gandhi was thrown out from local transport because of his black dark skin tone sitting with a white man and they want all white tone men in local transport. Then they decided to
- 3. Mahatma Gandhi thrown him out from the transport by different and colour different religion. Mahatma Gandhi returned back to India in July 1915 and joined Indian National Congress and speak out against Britishers because Britishers want to rule India and said to Indians that not to collect and sold out the salts and on 12 March Gandhi gone to Sabarmati with 78 followers on 241 miles to town of Dandi of Arabian sea to give salt and after when Gandhi gone to sea he pick up a lump of natural salt from the mud and then the Britishers were defeated. Gandhi took leadership of congress in 1920 and start speak out demands until on 26 January 1930, the Indian National Congress declared the Independence of India. The Britishers didnt understand the declaration. Gandhi first measure achievement came in 1917 with the Champaran movement in Bihar. The Champaran movement stand local farmers and people against their largely British landlords. The farmers were forced to grow crops to and to sell the crops at a fixed
- 4. Mahatma Gandhi price and not to eat themselves. Following an achievement of non- violent challenge and then Gandhi took the management by surprise and won allowance power. In April 1918, during World War 1 and the ruler invited Gandhi to a war conference in Delhi. Gandhi agreed to encourage the Indians for the war effort. In comparison of Zulu war of 1906 and explosion of World War 1 in 1914 and when the world war broke out Gandhi was on high seas. In 1918, Kheda was hit by floods and the farmers demanded to get rid of taxes. In Kheda Vallabhbhai Patel represented the farmers in dialogue with the British, who suspended taxes collection. In 1919 the World War was over Gandhi aged 49 he tried to find political co-operation from Muslims to fight against British by supporting Ottoman Empire that had been defeated in World War and said to British that Hindu and Muslim were common in British India and Gandhi had already supported British by adding
- 5. Mahatma Gandhi Indian soldiers to fight against Europe on the British side but by helping Britishers also they disappoint Gandhi that they had promised and then the Gandhi want to take revenge and started Khilafat movement. Khilafat movement was started in 1919 to 1922 and the main purpose was to put extra burden on Britishers to establish Khalifa post of Turkish and Mahatma Gandhi supported Khilafat Movement and returned his Kaiser-e-Hind medal to the British. By the end of 1922 the Khilafat Movement had ended. Gandhi started his non-violent and non- co-operation platform to include the Swadeshi policy the boycott the foreign made goods, specially British goods. Gandhi aged 62 years and made a plan to destroy all the rules of Britishers and begin the self rules by Indians. The three round table conferences of 1930 organized by the British Government and Indian National Congress was participant to discuss constitutional reforms in India these started in
- 6. November 1930 and ended 1932 and three round table conferences were their which was attended by Ambedkar, Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mahatma Gandhi and M.K Gandhi. Then the partition had done and the reason behind it was India won Independence in August 1947 by national struggle in three decades and the partition was first proposed by Indian Muslims and would be the only way to ensure safe and secure region .At 5:17pm on 30 January1948 in the compound of Birla house a large mission in New Delhi Nathuram Vinayak Godse who shot Gandhi in the chest three times due to Godse believed Gandhi to have favoured the political demands of Indias Muslim during partion of India. Before ,his death Gandhi was constantly saying the name of rama and say something like If I were to be shot in the chest and died with the words ram on my lips , only then would I be a true Mahatma shortly before his death. -KHUSHI