gandhiji came to india in 1915 during the active phase of freedom movement many leaders have been struggling to get independence for india even before him . but why is he still regarding as the most powerful and successful leader of the freedom movement?
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9 January 2015 marked the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India after his 21 years sojourn in South Africa. The day is now celebrated as the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas under the auspices of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Thus 9 January came to assume special significance after 11 September 2006 when Satyagraha, the most potent weapon discovered by Mahatma Gandhi completed its hundredth anniversary. It is a tribute not only to Mahatma Gandhi's leadership in India's struggle for independence but also to the contributions made by immigrant Indian in the country of their adoption and helped built bridges between the country of their origin and the country of their adoption. 9 January 2015, therefore, calls for special commemorative programmes appropriate for the historic occasion.
Mahatma Gandhi's arrival at this critical juncture proved to be a turning point in India's struggle for Independence. Even before his return on 9 January 1915 his work in South Africa was widely known in India. Gandhi himself took pains in acquainting Indian leadership with the problems faced by the Indian indentured labourers and the peoples of the Asiatic origin in South Africa. He wrote pamphlets, columns in the newspapers and would be present in India during the annual meetings of the Indian National Congress. He would get special time to speak on South Africa question. It was primarily because of his efforts that prominent leaders like Gopal Krishna Gokhale visited South Africa in 1912, to see for themselves the situation obtaining there. On their return they shared their experiences and observations with other leaders.
Gokhale's visit to South Africa symbolized the deep interest of the Indian people in the struggle of their brethren in that land under Gandhi's leadership. The moral and material support extended by the Indian people was indeed one of the important contributory factors in the success of that struggle. Thus it can be safely said that “by the time Gandhi returned to India in 1915 there was already in existence here a powerful Gandhi legend” as Pherozeshah Mehta, one of the most prominent Congress leaders of those days, observed at a function held in Gandhi's honour in Bombay, on 12 January 1915 after his arrival on Indian soil.
During the preceding years the whole country had been resounding with the tale of his great deeds. It is equally remarkable that while eulogizing Gandhi, Pherozeshah Mehta did not refer to his preaching of non-violence, Satyagraha (this came to occupy center -stage in Indian politics only after the success of Champaran Satyagraha in 1917) but only to his role in enabling Indians in South Africa to maintain their self-respect and honour.
The same drive for leadership and determination marked Gandhi's steps in his work for the public cause, informed by the conviction that the technique of struggle he had developed in South Africa would be equally applicable to India. Although full of deep affection and reverence for Gokhale, whom he even described as his political guru, Gandhi did not identify himself with the Moderate line in Indian politics. On the other hand, he also kept aloof from the Extremists. In the words of his eminent biographer B. R. Nanda: “Gandhi made nonsense of Extremists and Moderate politics and forged his own path” His intention obviously was to project before the Indian people his own independent approach to India's problems as well as his distinctive style of leadership. There is also no doubt that he was able to do so in an admirable way, turning almost every major occasion that he got to work before the public eye into a step leading to India's Independence.
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I obey with the given statement. Though Gandhi came to India in 1915, he was an Indian. Many freedom fighters fought for getting independence for India, all of them were using appropriate way of getting independence, but, Gandhi had a different tool for giving independence that was non-violence and of huminity and equality. I'm not telling others were wrong, all were correct but Gandhi's way was considered as the best and most of his achievements were only because of this way. He just didn't show fight for our independence, but also he taught us the real way of living being a human. Therefore, Gandhi is considered to be the greatest and also the father of the nation.