Gandhi

Gandhi

The independence of India

Thanks for your time

The outbreak of the Second World War (1939-1945) was the reason that Gandhi, once again, returned to the forefront of politics.

On January 30, 1948, he was hit by the bullets of a young Hindu. Just as he had predicted to his granddaughter.

Curiosities

He was very modest and complained about the title of Mahatma ('Great Soul') that had been given against his will by the poet Rabindranath Tagore.

Carolina

Desamparados

Nacho

Laura

Cristina

Several times in his adolescence ate meat being forbidden in his religion, impelled by a friend who advised him the meat to resemble in strength to the English.

He died as a true Mahatma, with the word Rama ('God') on his lips.

The march of salt

His retirement ended in 1927. He obtained that the parties of the country made the boycott to this commission.

The victory of the movement encouraged the Indian National Congress to declare independence of India on January 26, 1930.

From that moment civil disobedience was unstoppable: Gandhi's followers peacefully invaded the salt factories. The campaign ended with a pact to legalize salt production and release the nearly 100,000 prisoners detained during the demonstrations.

In 1932 he made a "fast until death" against the holding of separate elections of Hindus and pariahs. This forced all political leaders to go to their prison bed to sign a pact with English consent.

The apostle of non-violence

Gandhi arrived in India in 1915 and was received as a hero. He founded a community, its members dedicated to two jobs: agriculture, and hand-woven. In those first years, it left the policy to support Great Britain in the First World War. He later opened his eyes on the true intentions of the British imperialists.

Organized a campaign through non-violence, began with a general strike. Soon it spread to the whole country. Gandhi came to the presidency of the National Congress of India in 1885. He was arrested and upon his release from prison found the Congress Party divided into two factions, between Hindus and Muslims. Gandhi then decided to withdraw from politics to live in absolute poverty and seek silence as a regenerative force.

In South Africa (1893-1915)

introduction

Returning to Porbandar he found his family disintegrated: the mother had died shortly before, and the Gandhi had lost all influence in the princely court. As a lawyer he did not find many prospects, since his first professional performance ended in a humiliating failure. As a result, I traveled to South Africa.

Lived a Hindu colony formed mostly by workers, They lacked all rights and were despised. Gandhi was about to return to India when he learned of the existence of a bill to withdraw the right to vote for Hindus. He then decided to postpone the game one month to organize the resistance of his compatriots, and the month became twenty-two years.

During that long period of his life, his main concern was the liberation of the Indian community, he proposed to articulate a movement dedicated to the agitation by legal means.

From 1904, it modified its way of life, founded a commune called Tolstoy. At that time began his theory of nonviolent activism.

Although the art of independence of India, Mahatma Gandhi was most recognized for his perseverance in peaceful activism founded on non-violence and the strength of convictions.On the other hand, because their goals were always much broader, they included the abolition of caste, social justice, the transformation of economic structures, harmony between religions and a profound ethical and spiritual renewal of the human being.

Biography

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar. His father, Karamchand Gandhi, was the first minister. His mother is called Putlibai.

Gandhi was a quiet, reclusive teenager and nothing brilliant in the studios, who passed without drawing attention to schools. At the age of thirteen, following the Hindu custom, with a girl of his age called Kasturbai, with whom he had been engaged for six years without knowing it. He fell passionately in love with the girl, and making love to her left the bed of his dying father the very night he died. The event left a sense of indelible guilt in Gandhi, who later declared against child marriage and a favor of sexual continence.

The family decided to send to London to pursue the courses of advocacy, later embarked in Bombay, being father for the first time. From that time his son tries to synthesize the precepts of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and his native religion.