Question

1) Why is Mahatma Gandhi known as the father ?​

Answer 1

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➢ It was Gandhiji who had made the independence struggle a mass movement or rather a movement of the people. At the time of Gandhiji’s return from South Africa in 1915, participation in the independence struggle was limited. Only the upper strata of the society took part. Because the vast majority was illiterate and the media was not strong ie no television, radios were rare and newspapers couldn't help the illiterate. Gandhiji traveled throughout India and mobilized masses. He could understand the language of the common man. The common man saw the spirit and soul of India in him.

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Answer 2

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Here is ur answer mate

Please note, common people in India started calling Mahatma Gandhi as ‘Bapu’ meaning father. Nobody forced the people to call him as ‘Bapu’.

So, when you translate this into English, it would mean, that people of the nation that was yet to be created in the modern terms of a nation, India, called him as a Father.

He thus obviously became the ‘Father of the nation’ through its people, and not through government designation or recognition.

Further, we can also decipher that Mahatma Gandhi was the main leader who was responsible for creating a nation out of India.

He might not have united the territories like Sarder Patel did later. But, he had united the people, the entire masses of Indian nationality to fight for freedom. Here lies the greatness of Mahatma Gandhi.

The first reference to Mahatma Gandhi as Father of the Nation was made by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a radio address from Singapore in 1944.

In a Broadcast on Azad Hind Radio on July 6, 1944, he said,

“India's last war of Independence has begun. Troops of the Azad Hind Fauz are now fighting bravely on the soil of India, and in spite of all difficulty and hardship they are pushing forward slowly but steadily. This armed struggle will go on until the last British is thrown out of India and until our Tricolour proudly flutters over the Viceroy's House in New Delhi. Father of our Nation! In this holy war of India's liberation, we ask for your blessings and good wishes.''

After Gandhi’s Death, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru used this title again.

“Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere, and I do not quite know what to tell you or how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the Father of the Nation, is no more.”

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