During the life of Gandhi, many countries that were colonies of Great Britain. Residents in the colonies crave freedom to govern their own country.
Gandhi was one of the most important of which are involved in the Indian Independence Movement. He was an activist who did not use violence, which brought the independence movement through peaceful demonstrations.
BIOGRAPHY OF MAHATMA GANDHI
Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the state of Gujarat in India. Several of his family members working on the government side. As a teenager, Gandhi moved to England to study law. After he became a lawyer, he went to South Africa, a British colony, where he experienced racial discrimination called apartheid. He then decided to become a political activist in order to change the laws that are discriminatory. Gandhi has constituted a non-violent movement.
When he returned to India, he helped in the independence of India from British colonies: this will inspire people in other colonies that gained independence struggle and break the British Raj to then form the Commonwealth.
People from different religions and tribes that live in India when it believes that India needs to be broken down into several states that different groups can have their own state. Many who wanted the Hindus and Muslims have their own state. Gandhi was a Hindu, but he liked the ideas of other religions including Islam and Christianity. He believes that people of all religions should have equal rights and live together peacefully in one country.
In 1947, India became independent and split into two countries, India and Pakistan. It is not approved Gandhi.
The principle of Gandhi, satyagraha, often translated as "the right way" or "path to truth", has inspired many generations of democracy activists and anti-racism as Martin Luther King, Jr.. and Nelson Mandela. Gandhi often said that teaching values is very simple, based on traditional Hindu beliefs: truth (satya), and non-violence (ahimsa).
On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated a Hindu man angry with Gandhi because he tended to side with the Muslims.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 and lived for most of the half century Twenty. Born in Gujarat, India, and lived several years in England, where he studied law, and in South Africa, where he had a career as a lawyer. He returned to India from South Africa to join the liberation movement against the British rulers.
Gandhi is someone who from an early age, so live life and have always questioned about its values. He lived out and live life. On each occasion, he was always looking for answers to many questions in a variety of ways. He gave the title of his autobiography My experience of the Truth. In fact, he spent his whole life searching for the truth and continue to try to find the answers and apply in their daily lives.
He started his career as a lawyer in South Africa, where he finds racial issues for the first time. One time, during a trip on the train to Pretoria, she was asked to leave the class passenger seat of the host even though he had paid the ticket. White train conductor who was a cynical saying that in addition to white people are not allowed to occupy the premier class seats. But Gandhi refused and insisted on occupying seats he had paid for it. Because of this refusal, the conductor down at a small station.
Perhaps, that's one incident which then makes it always fought for justice. He always pointed out that we can fight injustice without violence. While in South Africa was the Gandhi began to develop his ideas called Ahimsa or non-violence, and teach those Indians who live there how to apply Ahimsa to overcome the injustices they experience. The method is also known as passive resistance or anti-cooperate with those who commit injustice. Gandhi believes that, by rejecting-working, the person will eventually realize his mistake and then stop the unfair attitude.
Gandhi succeeded in doing efforts in South Africa. However, it was also time for him to get back to India emerging by the Liberation Movements of the British Rulers. He felt was his duty to join and contribute to the ideals of independent India. Gandhi asked his followers in India to implement the teachings of Ahimsa and shows how his teachings can be part of India's freedom struggle.
While the movement continues to progress, Gandhi continued his search for the truth and to design appropriate strategies to face the enemy. He called Satyagraha - Truth Enforcement. Gandhi believed that seeing the suffering of someone who uphold the truth will take effect and will touch the conscience of the perpetrator abuses (the enemy). Satyagraha is then run widely and effectively in the struggle for independence. This struggle finally reached a point where the UK could not survive against the thousands of people who menetangnya mass, acts peacefully demanding freedom. However, Gandhi assured to every effort and struggle waged by those who tutored him in the running Satyagraha, and for teaching and training Satyagraha struggle is bringing results.
Gandhi is still opportunity to watch India's independence from British rule, but he was very sad to see the conflict between Muslims and Hindus, as well as to the thousands of people who are victims of Partition (Partition) India-Pakistan. His belief the Brotherhood of Mankind (The Brotherhood of Man) remains unwavering, long since she had rejected the plan of Partition (Partition), although it was still happening. India is now separated into India with a secular Hindu majority, and Pakistan, with a majority Muslim society, which is also divided into East Pakistan and West Pakistan. At the end of his life mourning the teachings of Gandhi's Satyagraha he was unable to prevent the hatred between Hindus and Muslims which resulted in the splitting of India. In 1948, Gandhi was killed in a house of worship by a Hindu fanatic who does not agree with the understanding of The Brotherhood of Man lead.
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