MOHANDAS KARAMCHANDRA GANDHI
IMPORTANT
- Date of Birth : Oct 2, 1869
- Date of Death : Jan 30, 1948
- Place of Birth : Porbander, Gujarat
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INTRODUCTION
Mahatma Gandhi ( Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) was born into a hindu Modh family in Porbandar, Gujarat, India in 1869. He was the son of karamchand gandhi, the diwan (Chief Minister) of Porbandar, and Putlibai, karamchand's fourth wife (his previous three wives had diedd in childbirth), a Hindu of the Pranamivaishnava order. Growing up with a devout mother and surrounded by the jain influences of Gujrat, Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutul tolerance between members of various creeds and sects. he was born into the vaishya , or business, caste.
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GANDHI JI FAMILY
In May 1883, at the age of 13, gandhi was married through his parents' arrangement to kasturba Makhanji ( aslo spelled "kasturbai" or known as "Ba"), who was the same age as he. They had four ssons: Harilal Gandhi, born in 1888; Manilal Gandhi , born in 1892; Ramdas Gandhi, born in 1897; and Devdas gandhi, born in 1900. Gandhi was a medicre student in his youth at Porbandar and later Rajkot. He barely passed the matriculation exam for University of bombay in 1887, where he joined Samaldas College. he was also unhappy at the college, because his family wanted him to become a barister.
He leapt at the opportunity to study in England, which he viewed as "a land of philospher and poets, the very centre of civilization". Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi wsa a major political and spiritual leader of India, and the Indian Independence movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of satyagraha- teh residance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience strongly founded upon ahimsa (total non-violence)- which led zindia to independence, and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
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He gave them this mantra: "Do or Die"; at the same time, he asked the British government to "Quit India". The response of the British government was to palace Gandhi under arrest, and virtually the entire Congress leadership was to find itself behind bars, not to be released until after the conclusion of the war. A few months after Gandhi and Kasturba had been placed in confinement in the the Agra Khan's Place in Pune, Kasturba passed away: this was a terrible blow to Gandhi, following closely non the heels of the death of his private seceratory of many years, the gifted Mahadev Desai.
In the period from 1942 to 1945, the Muslim League, which represented the interested of certain Muslims and by now advocated the creations of a separate homeland for Muslims, increasingly gained the attention of the British, and supported them in their war effort. The new government that came to power in Britain under Clement Atlee was committed to the independence of India, and negotiations for India's future began in earnest Sensing that the political leaders were now craving for power, Gandhi largely distanced himself from the negotiations. He declared his opposition to vivisection of India.