why did he gain the sobriquet mahatma
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1He truly cared about people: Not just Indians. But, everyone. When the Mahatma announced the call to boycott British clothes (to rejuvenate the Indian economy & break the British monopoly he took the time to visit the mills in Manchester & apologize to the workers. The British weavers never let him apologize and actually cheered his boycott.
2)Amazing background: By the time Mahatma Gandhi entered the Indian politics in 1914, he had already spent 21 years in the South African civil rights movement. He had the academic credibility from London and the street credibility from South Africa. Then he spent years touring India & observed from a very perceptive lens. Very few Indian leaders had that kind of background. Most were armchair revolutionaries (like what we are all doing now).
3)Extreme strength. He learned to balance on wooden logs placed over water when he was 77. At 77 we would all be getting done with our activities. And he grew up in the 19th century with no vaccination or modern medicine. His body was often devastated by constant fasting, protests, speeches and travel. His mind was traumatized by the violence and partition that was engulfing India. But, he had a task in hand - to stop a humouguous violence in a region of Bengal that was like this.
The villages were all isolated by river water and the jungles were infested with tigers and crocs. The villages were connected with each other just by small wooden poles. At that age Gandhi learned to balance himself in the poles dug in Ganges to walk the river alone and meet angry villagers (who wanted Gandhi's blood) alone. He would live with them, reason with them and pray with them. Village by village, he calmed the religious riot. He saved millions and millions of people with that.
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