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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
culture · Indian independence activist (1869–1948) · politician · barrister · political writer · journalist · philosopher · autobiographer · essayist · newspaper editor · civil rights advocate · memoirist · also Mahatma Gandhi, M. K. Gandhi, Mohandas K Gandhi, M K Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Gandhi
Born 2 October 1869 · Died 30 January 1948 · Q1001
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“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.”
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“Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.”
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“There must be no impatience, no barbarity, no insolence, no undue pressure. If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy, we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one”
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“Unless you impose on yourselves the five vows you may not embark on the experiment at all.”
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“They object because they fear to die.”
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“if animal passion had not blinded me, I should have been spared the torture of separation from my father during his last moments.”
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The Times of India: Gandhi's letter to India, as told through TOI
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A revised edition of the complete works sparked a controversy, as it contained a large number of errors and omissions
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Tushar Gandhi immersed the contents of one urn, found in a bank vault and reclaimed through the courts, at the Sangam at Allahabad
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Died 1948-01-30.
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“Jest rzeczą szlachetną bronić z mieczem w ręku swojego mienia, honoru i religii. Jeszcze szlachetniej postępuje ten, który broni ich, starając się nie wyrządzać krzywdy złoczyńcy. Ale czymś amoralnym i uwłaczającym ludzkiej godności jest opuszczanie towarzysza oraz wydanie swego majątku, swojej religii i swego honoru na łup złoczyńcy dla ratowania własnej skóry.”
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“Wśród wielu występków brytyjskiego panowania w Indiach, historia uzna za najczarniejszą ustawę, która cały naród pozbawiła broni.”
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“[I]t is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.”
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“Gdybym nie miał poczucia humoru, już dawno temu popełniłbym samobójstwo.”
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“The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.”
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“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
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And the British responded by imprisoning him and tens of thousands of Congress leaders
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Gandhi urged his people to completely stop co-operating with the imperial government, again calling for non-violence
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“You may never be able to come back to the place you have left, nor can you undo the wrongs that you have done. But you can always begin again. You can cleanse the heart, you can remake your life, you can rebuild character.”
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“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
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And who had previously expressed a lack of faith in nonviolence as a means of protest
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Gandhi returned to active politics again with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of the Congress
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“Only the other day, a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine-stricken, converted them to his fold, took charge of their temple and demolished it. This is outrageous. The temple could not belong to the converted Hindus, and it could not belong to the Christian missionary. But this friend goes and gets it demolished at the hands of the very men who, only a little while ago, believed that God was there.”
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Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership
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Gandhi wrote Songs from Prison while prisoned in Yerawada jail in Maharashtra
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“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse than starving the body. It is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.”
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“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a State shares in its corruption and lawlessness.”
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Awarded Time Person of the Year (1930).
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“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
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And in calling for the British to quit India in 1942
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“If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.”
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“Politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice — are the seven social sins.”
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“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
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Gandhi continued to pursue swaraj
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“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”
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The Khilafat Movement collapsed following the end of the non-cooperation movement and Gandhi's arrest
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Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and, above all, achieving swaraj or self-rule
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Gandhi became the leader of the Indian National Congress
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“It has always been easier to destroy than to create.”
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“Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others… to do the work of defense for him.”
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Which Gandhi tabled as "Resolution on Non-cooperation" in September that year before a session of the Indian Congress
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And began escalating demands until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India
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“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.”
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Gandhi sought Muslim co-operation by supporting the defeated Ottoman Empire
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“To bring about such a state of things we should have the ability to defend ourselves, that is, the ability to bear arms and to use them... If we want to learn the use of arms with the greatest possible despatch, it is our duty to enlist ourselves in the army.”
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Kheda was hit by floods and famine and the peasantry was demanding relief from taxes
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“Opis: zdanie przypisywane Gandhiemu, którego jednak nigdy nie wypowiedział, a będące przerobioną wypowiedzią amerykańskiego socjalisty Nicholasa Kleina z 1918.”
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“So far I have not a single recruit to my credit apart,”
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“When there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence… I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than to remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour.”
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Aged 45, he returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against discrimination and excessive land tax
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In South Africa, is now used throughout the world
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When he recruited volunteers for the Ambulance Corps, this time Gandhi attempted to recruit combatants
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And did so even when doctors advised him to consume milk
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“alone are the original inhabitants of the land. … The whites, on the other hand, have occupied the land forcibly and appropriated it for themselves.”
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Gandhi established, with the help of his friend Hermann Kallenbach, an idealistic community they named Tolstoy Farm near Johannesburg
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“The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.”
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Became "the intellectual blueprint" for India's independence movement
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When the Bambatha Rebellion broke out in the colony of Natal, the then 36-year-old Gandhi, despite sympathising with the Zulu rebels, encouraged Indian South Africans to form a volunteer stretcher-bearer unit
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The Transvaal government promulgated a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian and Chinese populations
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At age 37, although married, he vowed to abstain from sexual relations
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Gandhi started the Indian Opinion, a journal that carried news of Indians in South Africa, Indians in India with articles on all subjects – social, moral and intellectual
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To mobilise support for the welfare of Indians in South Africa
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Won Kaisar-i-Hind Medal.
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Awarded Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo.
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Won Queen's South Africa Medal.
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Won Natal Native Rebellion Medal.
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To form a group of stretcher-bearers as the Natal Indian Ambulance Corps
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Studied at Samaldas Arts College.
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Studied at Inner Temple.
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And through this organisation, Gandhi moulded the Indian community of South Africa into a unified political force
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A Muslim merchant in Kathiawar named Dada Abdullah contacted Gandhi
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To represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit
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A bitter trade dispute broke out in London, with dockers striking for better pay and conditions, and seamen, shipbuilders, factory girls and other joining the strike in solidarity
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Studied at University College London (1888).
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The Gandhis had four more children, all sons: Harilal, born in 1888; Manilal, born in 1892; Ramdas, born in 1897; and Devdas, born in 1900.
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In November 1887, the 18-year-old Gandhi graduated from high school in Ahmedabad.
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In late 1885, Gandhi's father, Karamchand, died.
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In May 1883, the 13-year-old Gandhi was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Gokuldas Kapadia (her first name was usually shortened to "Kasturba", and affectionately to "Ba") in an arranged marriage, according to the custom of the region at that time.
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Studied at Mahatma Gandhi Museum (1877).
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Karamchand became diwan of Rajkot and was succeeded as diwan of Porbandar by his brother Tulsidas
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To further universal brotherhood, and which was devoted to the study of Buddhist and Hindu literature
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Gandhi's father, Karamchand, left Porbandar for the smaller state of Rajkot, where he became a counsellor to its ruler, the Thakur Sahib; though Rajkot was a less prestigious state than Porbandar, the British regional po
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Born 1869-10-02.
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Karamchand sought his third wife's permission to remarry; that year, he married Putlibai (1844–1891), who also came from Junagadh, and was from a Pranami Vaishnava family
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