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Gandhi Ji

Submitted By

Arun PawarRoll No. 68

2nd YearPGP-GBO

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GANDHI

Mohandas Gandhi, often called the Mahatma or “Great Soul” was born in India on October 2, 1869. He and his followers threw the King of England and his great armies out of India without using weapons of any kind - unless you call a cotton spinning wheel a weapon!

Let me quickly tell you part of his story.

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Once upon a time England, the country that once ruled over our United States, also ruled over India.

For over 200 years it ruled over India until this tiny man, who lived a poor and simple life, changed all that. He had been a lawyer in South Africa.

Here he is dressed in a fancy suit, sitting outside his law office.

But when he experienced how badly the white South Africans were treating people of color, Indians like himself and black Africans, he decided to do something about it.

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He led huge non-violent protests to change the laws so that people working for the railroads would be treated more fairly. He started dressing in plain, white clothing that wrapped around his body, like the common people and he began to live very simply. After he had helped some of the people in South Africa get better treatment, he returned to India.

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He and others believed India should have its freedom and get rid of the English rulers and their army. So he taught his people to fight back at the English - but not with guns or other weapons. He didn’t want to hurt or kill anyone. One way he taught his Indian friends to go against the English was by making their own cloth instead of buying cloth from the English. You see the English would have cotton grown in India, then they would have it picked by Indians, put on ships, ship it to England where it would be spun into thread, woven into cloth, shipped back to India and sold to the Indian people for a higher price .

In fact, the English had laws that forced the Indians to buy only this cloth. Gandhi said, “NO WAY, that is not fair!! Why should we have to buy back our own cotton cloth?! Let’s spin it ourselves!” So he learned how to spin cotton thread on a spinning wheel - like in this picture - and weave it into cloth. He and his followers taught this old fashioned way of spinning and weaving to thousands and thousands of other Indians.

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Soon the English couldn’t make money off the Indians buying their cloth anymore. The English said they had to buy the English cloth. But Gandhi and his followers refused. Gandhi and hundreds of others were thrown in jail.

He would be let out of jail but he would keep spinning and weaving and keep breaking the law and get thrown in jail again and again.

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This made big news all over the world. People around the world soon began to think that this wasn’t fair either. Even the workers in the cloth factories back in England thought this was not fair. These were the people whose jobs were being lost because of Gandhi and his supporters making their own cloth. Finally the laws about the cloth were changed and Indians were allowed by the English to make their own cloth.

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Next he protested against the English Salt Tax.

Here he leads his fellow freedom fighters on a march to the sea to make their own salt from sea water instead of buying the expensive English salt with its extra tax.

The English army beat up Gandhi and his followers and threw them in jail when they tried to make their own salt from the sea.

But Gandhi and his friends kept coming back and back until the English gave up.

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Finally, after years and many, many non-violent protests like this, Gandhi and his hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters forced the English to leave India and allow the Indians to run their own country. They did this without weapons that could hurt or kill.

Gandhi’s ideas of non-violent protest - or trying to change unfair practices or laws without hurting anyone - have been used by important leaders in our country and around the world.

Here, in the United States, the most famous example is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he joined others in the struggle for equal rights and justice for African Americans.

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Principles, practices and beliefs:-

o Trutho Non Violenceo Vegetarianismo Simplicityo Faitho Swaraj

Gandhi Ji believed in these principles and every incident in his life shows their implementation. Be it his struggle in South Africa or be it his freedom movement in India. These principles were like pillars to him which strengthened him and helped him achieve whatever he wanted.

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TruthGandhi dedicated his life to the wider

purpose of discovering Truth, or Satya. He tried to achieve this by learning from his own mistakes and conducting experiments on himself.

He called his autobiography The story of my experiments with life.

Gandhi stated that the most important battle to fight was

overcoming his own demons, fears, and insecurities. Gandhi summarised his beliefs first when he said "God is Truth". He would later change this

statement to "Truth is God". Thus, Satya (Truth) in Gandhi's

philosophy is "God".

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Non ViolenceAlthough Mahatama Gandhi was not the originator of the principle of non-violence, he was the first to apply it in the political field on a huge scale. The concept of  Non Violence(Ahimsa) and Non Resistance has a long history in Indian religious thought and has had many revivals in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Jewish and Christian contexts. In applying these principles, Gandhi did not balk from taking them to their most logical extremes in envisioning a world where even government, police and armies were nonviolent.

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Vegetarianism

As a young child, Gandhi experimented with meat-eating. This was due partially to his inherent curiosity as well as his rather persuasive peer and friend. The idea of vegetarianism is deeply ingrained in Hindu and Jain traditions in India, and, in his native land of Gujarat.

Before leaving for his studies in London, Gandhi made a promise to his mother, Putlibai that he would abstain from eating meat, taking alcohol, and engaging in promiscuity. He held fast to his promise and gained more than a diet: he gained a basis for his life-long philosophies. As Gandhi grew into adulthood, he became a strict vegetarian

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Simplicity Gandhi earnestly believed that a person involved in public service should lead a Simple life. He first displayed this principle when he gave up wearing western-style clothing, which he associated with wealth and success. When he returned to India he renounced the western lifestyle he led in South Africa, where he had enjoyed a successful legal practice.Gandhi dressed to be accepted by the poorest person in India, advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi). He and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own clothes from thread they themselves spun on a Charkha, and encouraged others to do so.

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FaithGandhi was born a Hindu and practised Hinduism all his life, deriving most of his principles from Hinduism. As a common Hindu, he believed all religions to be equal, and rejected all efforts to convert him to a different faith. He was an avid theologian and read extensively about all major religions.

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SwarajGandhi was a self-described philosophical anarchist and his vision of India meant India without an underlying government.

He once said that “ the ideally nonviolent state would be an ordered anarchy.“ While political systems are largely hierarchical, with each layer of authority from the individual to the central government have increasing levels of authority over the layer below, Gandhi believed that society should be the exact opposite, where nothing is done without the consent of anyone, down to the individual. His idea was that true self rule in a country means that every person rules his or herself and that there is no state which enforces laws upon the people.

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