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16 hours ago · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [c] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) 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.
1 day ago · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
1 day ago · July 5, 2024. 3 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Martin Luther King Jr. was famously influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent resistance to British rule. But, as public policy scholar Andrea M. Slater writes, connections between the Black American and Indian liberation movements go back much farther.
3 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Indian Leader, Nonviolence, Activist: The British attitude toward Gandhi was one of mingled admiration, amusement, bewilderment, suspicion, and resentment.
3 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Indian Independence, Satyagraha: For the next three years, Gandhi seemed to hover uncertainly on the periphery of Indian politics, declining to join any political agitation, supporting the British war effort, and even recruiting soldiers for the British Indian Army.
3 days ago · An old interview of ‘Heeramandi’ actor Sharmin Segal is going viral on the internet. In the interview, the actor admitted that when she visited the sets of ‘Devdas’ as a child, she was adamant about sitting on Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s lap! In the clip from an old interview, Sharmin can be heard saying in Hindi, “I was four years old ...
The FIR, filed on the complaint of sub-inspector Brijesh Pandey, named Devdas Madhukar, the head volunteer ... Rahul Gandhi leaves for Hathras; main accused, Bhole Baba missing ...
