ESSAY ON
MAHATMA GANDHI
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called Mahatma, is the father of our nation. He was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. His birthday on 2nd October is observed worldwide as the international day of non-violence. He belonged to a well-to-do family, his father being attached to the royal court of Rajkot. He was not quite good at studies but he took great care of his character.
His father Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi was Chief Minister (Diwan) of Porbander. Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, and Devdas were Gandhiji’s four sons. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the great leaders of the Indian Independence movement against British rule. Gandhiji inspired civil rights and freedom movements across the world.
Essay on Mahatma Gandhi
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Born 2 October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat
Died on 30 January 1948
Parents Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi (Father); Putlibai (Mother)
Movement
Champaran Satyagraha
Rowlatt Act
Dandi March
Gandhi Irwin Pact
Quit India Movement
Slogan ‘Do or Die’
Wife Kasturba Gandhi
Political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi Gopalkrishna Gokhale
Spiritual guru Leon Tolstoy
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, active politician, and freedom fighter. He was the greatest freedom fighter who has proved to the world that the greatest of battles could be fought and won by applying peaceful methods.
Education of Mahatma Gandhi
At the age of 14, he married Kasturba Gandhi. Later he went to England to study law. The traditional Brahmins created a lot of hindrances in his way as they considered crossing the seas to be against the religious tenets. In England, Gandhiji found great difficulty in getting vegetarian food, but at last, he was able to locate a restaurant that served such food.
Mahatma Gandhi did law in England and returned to India as a barrister in 1891. He started practice at Rajkot and Bombay but failed. He was a young man of shy nature and it is said that when he appeared before the judge for the first time in order to plead for a case, he could not utter a single word.
Essay on mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi went to South Africa in 1893 in connection with a case. There he was the miserable condition of the Indians and other black people. He set up the Phoenix Ashram there and formed the Natal Indian Congress in 1986. He opposed the white African policy of Apartheid tooth and nail and had his first experience of the practice of Satyagrah. He fought for social reforms, economic reforms and justice, and fair and equitable treatment. He taught the Indians the lessons of truthfulness, love, cooperation, fearlessness, and cleanliness. He started a weekly, Indian opinion in 1904.
Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhiji experimented with the weapon Satyagraha for the first time in South Africa in September 1906 to protest against the Asiatic Ordinance issued against the Indian in Transval. Gandhiji’s first imprisonment was in 1908 at Johannesburg in South Africa.
In 1899 during the Boer war, Gandhiji organized Indian Ambulance Crops for the British. He was humiliated and ousted from Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in South Africa. He started Tolstoy Farm in South Africa in 1910 and Foenix Settlement in Durban.
Mahatma Gandhi was greatly influenced in his ideas such as Satyagraha, civil disobedience, and passive resistance by the Great Russian Philosopher and writer Leo Tolstoy. He had gained a lot of experience in South Africa and when he returned to India in 1915, he was fully equipped for the job he was to undertake. January 9 is observed as ‘Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas’ to commemorate this.
At that time there was a great influence of Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Bal Gangadhar Tilak on Indian politics. Mahatma Gandhi was influenced by both, though he actually evolved his own ideology and strategy. Still, his real mentor was Gopal Krishna Gokhale whole he is said to have given the title “Mahatma” which actually stuck to his own name instead of that of his mentor.
Mahatma Gandhi was greatly influenced by Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and loved to read the Gita, an English translation of which had actually changed his life.
Reforms of Mahatma Gandhi
Apart from being a politician, Gandhiji did many works as a social reformer to end casteism, untouchability, drug abuse, polygamy, the purdah system, and communal discrimination. He was in favor of Hindu-Muslim unity throughout his life, but after getting independence, he could not maintain this unity when the talk of partition of India started in the name of religion, he was very sad.
They did not want the partition to happen, but the circumstances became such that the partition could not be stopped. The sad thing is that both Hindus and Muslims made a mistake in understanding Gandhiji. In response to the fundamentalist Muslims, a fundamentalist Hindu organization was born in India as well.