Famous People in History, Great Personalities in World History, Famous Person Information, Photos: Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujrat and was murdered in 1948 by Nathuram Godsey.

In the time Gandhi was born India was a colony of the British Empire. The British ruled the country for several hundred years.Many people lived in great poverty because the British took all the wealth .After school Gandhi went to London and studied Law in an university. He became a lawyer. Shortly after he was back in India firm wanted him to go to South Africa where he worked for them. In South Africa the Indians were not welcome by the white settlers. One day Gandhi got pushed out of the train when he refused to have his seat for a white person. It was then that decided never to be pushed down again and to fight for the rights of minorities. He started to lead the Indian workers in South Africa and fought for their rights. He made a very important rule of himself which is used his whole life: never to use violence in his fights, even of others would use violence against him. So he started to fight for the rights of Indian workers in South Africa and he had great success. And he never used violence.

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When he came back to Indian crowds were already waiting and cheering for him at Harbour and people celebrated his arrival. But that did not make him happy. He wanted to live like most of the people in India: out in the countryside and poor. The Indians love him because he was so close to them. He lived in the country and lived an easy life joy and satisfaction. And he started spinning. He continued spinning for the rest of his life from them on. He had the opinion that a lot poverty in India was the result of all the clothes that were produce from Great Britain to India. Since spinning used to be a common job for people in the India, villages, Gandhi believed that these imported goods destroyed great parts of India` economy and thus many people lost their work. Gandhi encouraged the people to start spinning again if they do not have anything better to do because so they could make some money and would produce something.

Another very important step to independence was that he asked the whole nation to strike for one day. And they did. Nothing worked on that day. There was virtually no traffic, mail was not delivered, factories were not working and – for the British a very important thing – the telegraph did not work the British in India were cut off their mother country. It was then that day first realized Gandhi’s over in India. There was another very important event on India’s way to independence. The British had control of the salt that was taken out the sea. Indians had to play takes for the salt nobody could live without. Gandhi thought that the rule over the salt industry was one the British basics to rule India. He started a march over 140 miles (About 200 Kilometers) to the ocean. When the started, Gandhi had only a few hundred followers but when they reached the sea they were a group many thousands of people. People from many villages which they came by decided to walk with them. When they arrived at the sea Gandhi took a handful of salt. That was a symbolic action and he asked everyday to do the same. No one on the side of the protesters used violence.

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Most of Gandhi’s were a great success. The reason was that the British did not know how to act against an enemy who does not use violence. But it was very important as well that the media all over the world talked about Gandhi and his actions because otherwise there would not have been enough public pressure upon the British officials. More and more people everywhere in the world agree with Gandhi when they saw the British violence against the non-violence people. And they loved because he was so close to the people in his country. To work together with the press and to have no secrets was one of the important things of his work. Gandhi went to jail very often in his life. He was arrested several times in South Africa as well e as in India. He used the time in jail to think and plan other actions. He also used the time to think about how he could he help the untouchable. He was a religious man a believed in casts but he did not think that god wanted Untouchables to have no rights. He went for long walks though India to collect money for the Untouchables and he fought for their rights his whole life. He also fought for the peaceful understanding of different religions. When fight broke out between Hindus and Muslims he tried to talk to them and when that did not help the started to fast which he did a lot of times in his life.

When people to him and sad that it would be their right to kill someone if that person had killed their son or wife Gandhi used to reply:’’ An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind’’. During the second world Britain did not have much power to keep India as a colony anymore and they started to take about Independence. After the war in1947 India got finally independent and the British left the country. But Gandhi did not feel like celebrating because religious fights broke out again. But with his speeches to the people and finally with his fast he stopped the violence and people live together again. But India was divided into India and Pakistan. Pakistan was the part where most people were Muslims and India was the part with mainly Hindus. Gandhi did not want to divide the country but they could help it. Shortly after his last fast with which the stopped the religious violence a fanatic Hindu shot him at his daily prayer.

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the most significant people in the 20^thcentury. He was the one who proved that it is possible to fight very successfully without violence .he fought his whole life with humanity, tolerance, ideas and without violence. He showed the way to a better world. And still today there are many people who love him and who use his philosophy to change the world. A very important example is the fight against wars. Usually people who fight against a war try to fight without violence. They march through cities and try to convince people not to go the war or something like that.

Fights for rights happened and still happen all over the word again and still happen all over the again and again because there always people who push other down. I think Gandhi played a big part in the fight for humanity and the rights of minorities. Think Gandhi was and is still a very significant person. He changed peoples’ mind and opened lots of people’s minds. Still today when people see the movie that was made about his life and his fights think this person and rebellion can be. And that it is important to save the (human) life and not to destroy it.

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