Pick out five qualities and traits which young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had. One is done
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a lover of his clan, truthful, brave, generous." The strongest formative influence on young Mohandas, however, was that of his mother Putlibai. She was a capable woman who made herself felt in court circles through her friendship with the ladies of the palace, but her chief interest was in the home. When there was sickness in the family, she wore herself out in days and nights of nursing. She had little of the weaknesses, common to women of her age and class, for finery or jewellery. Her life was an endless chain of fasts and vows through which her frame seemed to be borne only by the strength of her faith. The children clung to her as she divided her day between the home and the temple. Her fasts and vows puzzled and fascinated them. She was not versed in the scriptures; indeed except for a smattering of Gujarati, she was practically unlettered. But her abounding lover, her endless austerities and her iron will, left a permanent impression upon Mohandas, her youngest son.
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What were some of the personal qualities of Mohandas Gandhi?
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One of Gandhi's most notable qualities was persistence. As one of the leading members of the Indian independence movement, he knew that it would take a lot of hard work, effort, and, of course, persistence to throw off the yoke of British imperialism.
The British had been in charge of India for centuries and, with their superior firepower and economic strength, could not easily be removed by force. Not that Gandhi, an avowed pacifist and apostle of non-violence, would ever have endorsed any violent overthrow of the Raj, but in any event, it simply wouldn't have been possible.
Gandhi's strategy of non-violent resistance inevitably required extraordinary patience as well as immense courage. Many pro-independence campaigners balked at Gandhi's pacifism precisely because they thought that, as a political strategy, it would take way too long to end British rule in India.
But Gandhi stayed true to his beliefs, even in the midst of repression. He believed, with every fiber of his being, that if the Indian independence movement persisted in its non-violent campaign against the British—staging peaceful protests, refusing to cooperate with the authorities, and engaging in acts of passive resistance—then British rule in India would one day come to an end. And Gandhi was proved right when the British finally relinquished their hold on Mother India—peacefully—in 1947.