How do people visualised Mahatma Gandhi
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For Gandhi, his work, his passion, which found such intensity in struggle, was not a question of good vs. evil but a series of battles within the site of the ‘good’ itself. Each mass movement gave a paradigm of change, which was about more than just the immediate objective. Both by intent and method, he left behind an altered scene in which both oppressed and oppressor stood challenged, transformed.
Every January 30, at 5.17 pm, we revisit the moment of his ‘silencing’ with silence. At that moment not only was he killed but a wholly new vision that he had created evaporated. The sense of loss that engulfed the nation was about more than the loss of a person. A whole world crumbled at that instant, something only he represented, something only he was.
Gandhi was saint, social reformer and freedom fighter, but what intrigues me is why he was different, not just in degree but in his whole being, from the many others who struggled for exactly the same causes. Like many before him he too traversed the country. But Gandhi did not travel to observe or learn from India in the ordinary sense. He became the laughter, tears, drudgery, suffering, friendship, anger and hope. The observer became the observed. Every experience moved him closer to who he was, leading to revelations that were not always pleasant, but were the truth. What he saw as the future was very different.
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Despite Gandhiji's desire to promote class unity rather than class strife, peasants believed he would aid them in their fight against zamindars and agriculture.
Explanation:
- Gandhiji was regarded as a messiah, someone who might assist people in overcoming their sorrow and poverty.
- Despite Gandhiji's desire to promote class unity rather than class strife, peasants believed he would aid them in their fight against the zamindars.
- Agricultural labourers expected Mahatma Gandhi to give them land and lower their taxes.
- Gandhiji was credited by the common people with their own.