Mahatma Gandhi - A true peacemaker essay
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Mahatma Gandhi
Oil painting portrait of Mahatma Gandhi with Rama by Steve Simon
The painting features Gandhi in meditation with Rama in the background. "Ahimsa" is written in sanskrit above Mahatma's head.
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Mohandas Gandhi brief biography
During the 18th century, France and Britain battled for colonial supremacy of the Indian subcontinent. By 1858 the British Crown would eventually control, directly or indirectly, the territory that included modern Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Burma.
Eleven years later a child was born who would lead one of history’s most unlikely independence movements. Mohandas Gandhi first employed his philosophy of civil disobedience as a lawyer in South Africa for the civil rights of the Indian community.
He would later return to India, further honing his skills as a monumental force for social change. He held no official title and had virtually no earthly possessions. He was small in stature and, by nature, desperately shy. He was not blessed with particular intellectual genius or outward talent, save his indomitable will and tireless commitment to truth.
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In the second half of the 1880s, Mohandas went to London where he studied law. After having finished his studies, he first went back to India to work as a barrister, and then, in 1893, to Natal in South Africa, where he was employed by an Indian trading company.
In South Africa Gandhi worked to improve living conditions for the Indian minority. This work, which was especially directed against increasingly racist legislation, made him develop a strong Indian and religious commitment, and a will to self-sacrifice. With a great deal of success he introduced a method of non-violence in the Indian struggle for basic human rights. The method, satyagraha "truth force" was highly idealistic; without rejecting the rule of law as a principle, the Indians should break those laws which were unreasonable or suppressive. Each individual would have to accept punishment for having violated the law. However, he should, calmly, yet with determination, reject the legitimacy of the law in question. This would, hopefully, make the adversaries first the South African authorities, later the British in India recognise the unlawfulness of their legislation.
When Gandhi came back to India in 1915, news of his achievements in South Africa had already spread to his home country. In only a few years, during the First World War, he became a leading figure in the Indian National Congress. Through the interwar period he initiated a series of non-violent campaigns against the British authorities. At the same time he made strong efforts to unite the Indian Hindus, Muslims and Christians, and struggled for the emancipation of the 'untouchables' in Hindu society. While many of his fellow Indian nationalists preferred the use of non-violent methods against the British primarily for tactical reasons, Gandhi's non-violence was a matter of principle. His firmness on that point made people respect him regardless of their attitude towards Indian nationalism or religion. Even the British judges who sentenced him to imprisonment recognised Gandhi as an exceptional personality
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