Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Lawyer, political thinker, and Indian independence leader, born in 1869 and died in 1948.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known by the honorific title Mahatma, was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India. After studying law in London, he went to South Africa in 1893, where he experienced racial discrimination that awakened his political consciousness. There he developed the concept of satyagraha, nonviolent resistance, which he applied upon his return to India in 1915. Becoming a major figure in the Indian National Congress, he led iconic campaigns such as the Salt March in 1930 and the Quit India Movement in 1942. He advocated for the abolition of untouchability, economic self-reliance, and Hindu-Muslim unity. Assassinated on January 30, 1948, his legacy inspires civil rights movements worldwide.

Major works

Hind Swaraj (1909)essay
Harijanjournal

Key milestones

1893Ejected from a first-class train compartment at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, catalyzing his political activism.
1930Salt March of 241 miles from Sabarmati to Dandi, symbolic defiance of the British salt monopoly.
1948Assassinated in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist.

Themes

NonviolenceCivil disobedienceSocial justiceSelf-relianceReligious harmony

Sources: britannica.com · southasia.ucla.edu

“Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”

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“My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind.”

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“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”

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“uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.”

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“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.”

— Mohandas Karamchand GandhiTheme · Life

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