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Mahatma gandhi young
Mahatma gandhi young










mahatma gandhi young

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, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.

mahatma gandhi young

After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. He is also called Bapu in India.īorn and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. The honorific Mahatma -applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,-is now used worldwide.

mahatma gandhi young

Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.












Mahatma gandhi young