who is Mahatama Ghandhi and where he live
who is Mahatama Ghandhi and where he live BrAkV
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. It was here that Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and, above all, achieving swaraj or self-rule. Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with India's rural poor. He began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest. Bringing anti-colonial nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the British to quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by a Muslim nationalism which demanded a separate homeland for Muslims within British India. [10] In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire[10] was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. [11] As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Abstaining from the official celebration of independence, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to alleviate distress. In the months following, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop the religious violence. The last of these, begun in Delhi on 12 January 1948 when he was 78, [12] also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan. [12] Although the Government of India relented, as did the religious rioters, the belief that Gandhi had
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple, London, and
was called
to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to
start
a successful law practice, he
moved
to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to
live
in South Africa for 21 years. It was here that Gandhi raised a family and
first
employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India and
soon
set about
organising
peasants, farmers, and urban
labourers
to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building
religious
and ethnic amity, ending
untouchability
, and,
above all
, achieving
swaraj
or self-
rule
. Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with India's rural poor. He began to
live
in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest. Bringing anti-colonial nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (
250
mi)
Dandi
Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the British to quit India in 1942. He
was imprisoned
many
times and for
many
years in both South Africa and India.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on
religious
pluralism
was challenged
in the early 1940s by a Muslim nationalism which demanded a separate homeland for Muslims within British India. [10] In August 1947, Britain granted independence,
but
the British Indian Empire[10]
was partitioned
into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. [11] As
many
displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands,
religious
violence broke out,
especially
in the Punjab and Bengal. Abstaining from the official celebration of independence, Gandhi visited the
affected
areas, attempting to alleviate distress. In the months following, he undertook several hunger strikes to
stop
the
religious
violence. The last of these, begun in Delhi on 12 January 1948 when he was 78, [12]
also
had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out
some
cash assets owed to Pakistan. [12] Although the
Government
of India relented, as did the
religious
rioters, the belief that Gandhi had
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