Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Kasturbai


  
  TCRE text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gandhi said that was only one of the many lessons he learned from his grandfather, who taught non-violence as a path to peace.
Mahatma and Kasturbai were married at the age of 13, and not knowing how to behave like a husband, Mahatma went out and bought some pamphlets on the subject.
Kasturbai got what she wanted without using violence.
www.gtherald.com /1999/mar/10peace.htm   (576 words)

  
 instititue of world cultures programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Kasturbai argue that the jewels should be kept for the boys future wives.
Kasturbai retorted that such a prospect was highly unlikely said he never changed his mind once he decided on a course of action.
Kasturbai then argued --through tears -- that there was no difference between his service and hers since she served him and that made it possible for him to help others.
www.worldculture.org /pages/5_gandhidetail.html   (11375 words)

  
 Biography of Gandhi
When Gandhi was thirteen, he was married to Kasturbai, a girl of the same age.
Child marriages, arranged by the parents, were then common in India, and since Hindu weddings were elegant, expensive affairs, the Gandhi family decided to marry off Gandhi, his older brother, and a cousin all at one time to spare the cost of three separate celebrations.
Kasturbai could not even play with her friends without his permission and often he would refuse it.
www.progress.org /gandhi/gandhi01.htm   (808 words)

  
 International Vegetarian Union - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Both he and his wife, the patient and sensible Kasturbai, were tested by doctors who placed an inordinate importance upon meat and milk in the treatment that they prescribed.
Particularly memorable is the reply of Kasturbai who when told that her life would be at grave risk unless she consented to take beef tea, refused to do so for deep-seated traditional reasons: "I will not take beef tea.
This time Kasturbai reminded him that his vow was against cow's milk; surely he was free to take goat's milk To his lasting regret Gandhi gave way and he drank goat's milk for the rest of his life.
www.ivu.org /history/gandhi/experiments.html   (1845 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi - Life
He was married to Kasturbai at the early age of thirteen.
Since Kasturbai had no formal education, Gandhiji tried to teach her but she could never concentrate on books, though she was quick to learn the household work.
It was a happy reunion with Kasturbai and their two sons.
members.tripod.com /~TeluguWorlds/gandhi.html   (3618 words)

  
 Free-TermPapers.com - Ghandi
In India it was tradition to marry early, at 13 in his case, and to have your child married to the same caste.
Kasturbai's family was well-off, her father was a wealthy merchant.
When he finally overcame this, he started to be somewhat of a bully towards her, since she was brought up to obey her husband meekly.
www.free-termpapers.com /tp/24/hal6.shtml   (1387 words)

  
 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Biography (english)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mohandas was married to Kasturbai Makanji when both were 13 years old.
In 1897 Gandhi´s wife Kasturbai gave birth to her third son Ramdas, and three years later Davadas was born.
He also helped Kasturbai to do the housework, and his wife didn´t understand that, because they easily would have been able to afford a servant.
www.indien-netzwerk.de /navigation/landleute/artikel/Svadhinta-Din02/mkgandhi.htm   (2193 words)

  
 Mohandas K Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the age of 13, Mohandas fell victim to one of the curses of Indian society of that era, the curse of child marriage.
Kasturbai, as usual, went along with her husband loyally, without argument or complaint.
In internment at Poona, Kasturbai Gandhi asked the Mahatma whether there was any room in India for the British, also.
www.mincava.umn.edu /documents/kidshurt2much/bkp051702/Mincava/Book1/MahatmaG.asp   (5657 words)

  
 Gandhi TODAY Biography
Kasturbai imprisoned for the sixth time in two years.
G. and Kasturbai imprisoned with other Congress leaders in Aga Khan Palace.
February: Kasturbai dies in prison, 74 years of age.
www.algonet.se /~jviklund/gandhi/ENG.MKG.bio.html   (630 words)

  
 Meatless Wonders: Gandhi
It is reported that Gandhi was a shy child who did not do exceptionally well on an academic level but was recognized by his teachers for his good character and his desire to learn the truth, a guest that stayed with him throughout his life.
The seeds of Gandhi's political life were probably sewn when, at the age of nineteen he left Kasturbai with their infant son and traveled to London to study law.
He and Kasturbai embarked on a two-year tour of their homeland, living and working alongside the peasants.
mysite.verizon.net /richlord/food4peace/meatless-wonders-gandhi.html   (947 words)

  
 Biography of Gandhi
Gandhi and Kasturbai arrived in Bombay on January 9, 1915.
Kasturbai came to teach the women cleanliness and sanitation.
Then Kasturbai, his wife, shrewdly observed he had directed his vow only against the milk of cows and buffaloes.
www.progress.org /gandhi/gandhi08.htm   (1730 words)

  
 The Foundation for a Better Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869 to Hindu parents in the state of Gujarat in Western India.
He entered an arranged marriage with Kasturbai Makanji when both were 13 years old.
His family later sent him to London to study law, and in 1891 he was admitted to the Inner Temple, and called to the bar.
www.forbetterlife.org /billboards/details.asp?id=72   (277 words)

  
 Little Buddha - Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Kasturbai is also detained when she announces she will speak in his place.
From Kasturbai and Mirabehn, the American learns that Gandhi has worked for the liberation of women, seeing them and the untouchables as victims of slavery.
Later Kasturbai suffers a heart attack and dies in prison.
www.riverdale.k12.or.us /~tmigchel/gandhireview.htm   (1905 words)

  
 The Hindu : Is it a raw deal?
Finally, the Buckingham Canal Bank Dwellers' Residents Welfare Association is based in Kasturbai Nagar, where the president, Mr A. Kuppusamy keeps his finger plumb on the pulse of all satellite associations of canal bank residents.
What is most striking about the residents and their association here is, they raise their eyebrows whenever anyone questions why they encroached on the canal banks.
Leave alone the question of whether stations are needed at such frequent intervals, given that these are scheduled stops, a pathway and bridge is needed for people to access each station from the east bank of the canal.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2001/12/27/stories/2001122700030100.htm   (1320 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Gandhi: Self-Realization Through Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
...Kasturbai replies, with very good reason, that without her toiling and moiling for him, his public work would have been impossible...
...Gandhi, who as a public servant will accept no reward for his work, returns his own present and argues that Kasturbai is bound to do the same...
...The boys, of course, agree with papa, Kasturbai is overwhelmed, the jewels are cashed and the money derived from them is put aside in a trust fund for the Indians of South Africa...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V10I2P37-1.htm   (7173 words)

  
 Gandhi
Before his father's death Gandhi was wed to a thirteen year old girl named Kasturbai when he too was the age of thirteen (Fischer 16-17).
He often forbid Kasturbai to ventu re anyplace without his authorization as a husband in fear that she would be unfaithful.
This angered Kasturbai and she and Gandhi often fought over it (Gandhi 12).
www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/India/save/mclanahan/mclanahan.html   (1077 words)

  
 Escolar.net: Arena y moscas
Kasturbai, yo no he visto a nadie aquí justificar la fiesta taurina en base a que existan mataderos, al menos yo no lo he hecho.
Voy a repetir grosso modo lo que he dicho: la fiesta taurina es infame, pero criticarla uno a la vez que se come un bocata de chorizo es un acto de hipocresía, igual que prohibir a un niño ver los toros y luego plantarle un trozo de cadaver a la hora del rancho.
Kasturbai: estoy a rasgos generales de acuerdo contigo, tan sólo quiero hacer una matización a algo que has dicho.
www.escolar.net /MT/archives/2005/05/arena_y_moscas.html   (7607 words)

  
 The Story of my Experiments with Truth By Mahatma Gandhi-Part 4 Chapter 28
In a few days, however, I received a letter to the effect that Kasturbai was worse, too weak to sit up in bed, and had once become unconscious.
To her the scriptural texts were a sealed book, but the traditional religion of her forefathers was enough for her.
But Kasturbai put an end to the dialogue at once.2 "Swamiji", she said, "whatever you may say, I do not want to recover by means of beef tea.
www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/biography/gandhi/part4.chapter28.html   (1285 words)

  
 Literature Network Forums - View Single Post - Drinking in Moderation
When he was twelve or so, an uncle took him aside and explained that now it was time for him to be with his wife, and then explained the details.
For years, Gandhi wondered who it was who took Kasturbai aside, for she seem to know the details, but he never had the temerity to ask her.
She died after they had been married 60 or more years.
www.online-literature.com /forums/showpost.php?p=108974&postcount=73   (283 words)

  
 Storia del vegetarismo - Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) - Esperimenti con la Verità
Gandhi aveva una spiccata diffidenza verso i medici e in caso di malattia preferiva curare se stesso e la sua famiglia con l’alimentazione e con cure naturali.
Particolarmente memorabile è la risposta di Kasturbai che, quando le dissero che la sua vita sarebbe stata in grave pericolo a meno che avesse accettato di prendere del brodo di carne, rifiutò di farlo per profonde ragioni tradizionali: “Io non prenderò il brodo di carne.
La stessa cosa accadde nel 1918, in occasione della sua più seria malattia, dovuta a dissenteria e febbre alta. Quella volta Kasturbai gli ricordò che la sua promessa riguardava il latte di mucca, e pertanto era certamente libero di prendere latte di capra.
www.ivu.org /italian/history/gandhi/experiments.html   (1811 words)

  
 The CATHOLIC DIOCESE of DODGE CITY
The fifth grandson of the Mahatma, Gandhi lived with his grandfather from the age of 12 to 14.
"Many of the things he taught me influenced me tremendously," Gandhi said, noting that he also was greatly affected by his grandmother, Kasturbai, who became the Mahatma’s child bride when they both were only 13.
Kasturbai, a strikingly beautiful woman in her youth, died in prison in 1944 at a time when the Mahatma also was imprisoned after proposing the peaceful withdrawal of British power from India.
www.dcdiocese.org /swkregister/april_25_04/gandhipage.htm   (1158 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Men først blev han gift med pigen Kasturbai, som kom fra samme sociale lag.Sit første job fik Gandhi i Syd-Afrika.
Kasturbai arbejdede i alle årene lige så ivrigt for reformer som Gandhi selv.
Da han i 1920 efter Amritsar-massakren for alvor gik ind i modstadskampen mod englænderne, var Kasturbai det faste holdepunkt i askrambevægelsen.
www016.thinkquest.dk /Ghandi.html   (569 words)

  
 GANDHI-FIGHTER WITHOUT A SWORD. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to School Term ...
Gandhi, like any other Indian boys took being married, and going to school for granted because education was very hard for people to learn and to get a good job to not work on the fields day and night.
Gandhi was very happy for that he was married to Kasturbai (his wife) because she had changed his life in both work wise and study wise.
Whenever Kasturbai is along she goes to Gandhi's mother for advice how to live her life and how she can improve her marriage with Gandhi.
www.schooltermpapers.com /essay/007029.html   (724 words)

  
 The Story of my Experiments with Truth By Mahatma Gandhi-Part 1 Chapter 4
And Kasturbai was not the girl to brook any such thing.
I think it was quite innocent of Kasturbai to have taken those liberties with my restrictions.
My ambition was to make her live a pure life, learn what I learnt, and identify her life and thought with mine.
www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/Biography/gandhi/part1.chapter4.html   (1122 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi1, Biographies, College Term Papers.com
He believed in respecting his elders and was always ‘blind to the faults of the elders’.
Gandhi was married in 1882 at the age of thirteen to a girl named Kasturbai.
He was a very suspicious husband and kept an eye on all the movements of his wife, Kasturbai.
www.collegetermpapers.com /TermPapers/Biographies/Mahatma_Gandhi1.shtml   (1220 words)

  
 Global Exchange : trybulec.html
As we visited the place of Kasturbai's Samadhi and members of our group began to remove their shoes in order to pay their respects, I found I could move no closer.
She knew that she had to explore her own experiments with truth and not be swayed unconditionally by what her husband was still trying to learn.
This showed me that Kasturbai is a good example for us: that we must take guidance and give support but that we ourselves must seek truth.
www.globalexchange.org /tours/essays/trybulec.html   (1110 words)

  
 Class of Nonviolence - 2-3 - Family Satyagraha by Eknath Easwaren
But Kasturbai had an intuitive grasp of the properties of nonviolent love, and during those tumultuous years of domestic strife, she proved to be Gandhi's equal.
Without knowing it, Kasturbai had used satyagraha's - foremost weapons to win over her husband: a readiness to suffer rather than retaliate, and an implacable will.
Family satyagraha is founded, like all satyagraha, on this delicate balance of patience and determination, in which, when rightly practiced can become a cornerstone for deep personal relations between men and women.
www.salsa.net /peace/conv/8weekconv2-3.html   (840 words)

  
 biography
At age thirteen,Gandhi's schooling was interrupted when a marriage was arranged for him to marry, Kasturbai, a girl of the same age.
Later in life Gandhi would go against child marriages since it had made him responsible for things that a adult was to be responsible for, not a child.
While Gandhi was still weak, Kasturbai, his wife died in his arms.
www.asdk12.org /schools/romig/pages/asia2/History/Gandhi/biography.html   (625 words)

  
 EuropaWorld 2/2/2001Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 to prosperous Hindu parents in the state of Gujurat in Western India.
Following a conventional upbringing he entered an arranged marriage with Kasturbai Makanji when both were 13 years old.
The young Gandhi did not excel at school and although he started college, he withdrew after only five months.
www.europaworld.org /Issue20/mohandasmahatmagandhi2201.htm   (754 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India.
While he was still in high school, he was married, at the age of thirteen, to Kasturbai who was also of the same age.
A few months earlier, Kasturbai had borne him a son.
www.arches.uga.edu /~spatel84/project.html   (621 words)

  
 Top Secret Security Organization
Passionate and jealous, Gandhi thought he was her superior and teacher; it was only much later that he realized that it was Kasturbai, through her patience and enduring love and forgiveness, who had taught him much.
In London, Gandhi maintained the vows he had given his mother to abstain from meat, alcohol, and women; but while he found his law studies easy, he remained lonely and socially inept.
It has saved us from many temptations." Because his relationship with Kasturbai had been stormy, Gandhi gradually learned that rather than demand his "rights" he needed to try to fulfill his responsibilities to the relationship.
fortunecity.com /athena/motherteresa/77/pmdetailandquotes/peacep02.html   (1649 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.