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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the great revolutionary leaders of the 20th century. What set him apart from other freedom fighters is that he didn't fight but rather used nonviolent methods to achieve astonishing results. Gandhi was called Mahatma (Great Soul), a name that was given to him after being released from jail in 1922, and Bapu (Little Father). He himself preferred, "Gandhiji" (an honorific term for Gandhi).
That India opted for an entirely original path to solving its problems and obtaining swaraj (independence) was due largely to Gandhi. A native of Gujarat who had been educated in Britain, he was an obscure and unsuccessful provincial lawyer. Gandhi had accepted an invitation in 1893 to represent indentured Indian laborers in South Africa, where he stayed on for more than twenty years, emerging ultimately as the voice and conscience of thousands who had been subjected to blatant racial discrimination. He returned to India in 1915, virtually a stranger to public life but "fired with a religious vision of a new India, whose swaraj . . . would [be] a moral reformation of a whole people which would either convert the British also or render their Raj impossible by Indian withdrawal of support for it and its modern values," according to historian Judith M. Brown. [Source: Library of Congress]
Based on the number of books written about him (1,583 in 1999 in the Library of Congress collection), Gandhi was the world's 23rd most famous person. He ranks behind Jesus and Wagner but ahead of Dickens and Beethoven. According to Time magazine: “A believer in ‘passive resistance’ who had a steely will, a monklike acetic who was a London-trained lawyer and a sophisticated politician, Gandhi gave Indians a proud identity and a sense of nationhood. Many venerated him as mahatma (great soul). His protest in 1930 presaged the moment in 1947 when Britain would grant Indian independence and Gandhi would achieve worldwide status as a moral icon. His example lives on in nonviolent activists of our day such as Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela.”
On Gandhi, Albert Einstein once said, "generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." Steven Jobs of Apple thought he should be named Person of the 20th Century. He wrote in Time: “He showed us a way out of the destructive side of our human nature. He demonstrated that we can force change and justice through moral acts of aggression rather than physical acts of aggression.”
Film: Gandhi (1981) won many Academy Awards in 1982, including best film, best actor for Ben Kingsley and best director for Richard Attenborough. Books: Gandhi: A Life by Yogesh Chadha (Wiley, 1998); Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope by Judith M. Brown (1989). Louis Fischer wrote an authoritative biography about Gandhi.