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  Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand - MSN Encarta
Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar, in the modern state of Gujarat, on October 2, 1869, into a political Hindu family, both his father and grandfather having been prime ministers to the rulers of two adjacent and tiny princely states.
Gandhi finally returned to India in 1915, after the government of the Union of South Africa had made important concessions to his demands, including recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax for them.
Gandhi’s entire social and political thought, including his theory of satyagraha, was an attempt to work out the implications of the principle of love in all areas of life.
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 Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gandhi maintained this was because of the sin committed by upper caste Hindus by not letting untouchables in their temples (Gandhi was committed to the cause of improving the fate of untouchables, referring to them as Harijans, people of Krishna).
The Prize was not awarded in 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, on the grounds that "there was no suitable living candidate" that year, and when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was "in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi".
Gandhi is referred to in an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, The Old Man, as having an affair with one of the minor characters.
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 Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" (Sanskrit: "great soul") Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was one of the founding fathers of the modern Indian state and an influential advocate of pacifism as a means of revolution.
Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Gujarat, India.
Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "Letter to a Hindu" which was written in 1908 in response to aggressive Indian nationalists, and the two corresponded until Tolstoy's death in 1910.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/ma/mahatma_gandhi.html   (807 words)

  
 King Encyclopedia
Mohandas K. Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 into a family of moderate wealth in western India.
Gandhi wrote that "violence was no remedy for India's ills” and that the country's civilization “required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection."
Gandhi was released from jail and invited to meet with the British Government.
www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/gandhi.htm   (1201 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mohandas Gandhi was born to a Hindu family in 1869 in Porbandar in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Mohandas Gandhi played a prominent role in their planned campaign, as he was a talented letter-writer and meticulous planner.
Gandhi was released in order to negotiate with Smuts and the Indian Relief Bill, a law that scrapped the £3 tax on ex-indentured workers, came into being.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/gandhi,m.htm   (1575 words)

  
 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Biography (english)
Gandhi could talk to single persons quite well, but he was too shy to talk to the committee.
Mohandas passed his examinations, was called to the Bar and enrolled in the High Court in June 1891.
Gandhi achived that the rich people had to pay their tax, while it was suspended for the poor ones.
www.indien-netzwerk.de /navigation/landleute/artikel/Svadhinta-Din02/mkgandhi.htm   (2193 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was one of the gentlest of men, a devout and almost mystical Hindu, but he had an iron core of determination.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay.
Tushar Gandhi, the Mahatma's great-grandson, performed the act of dispersing the remains as thousands of onlookers chanted slogans in remembrance of the man who had succeeded, however briefly, in unifying a nation historically divided along religious and ethnic lines.
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 The Mahatma Gandhi Web Site.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mahatma Gandhi fought a non-violent agitation for the rights of the farmers; he forced the British administration to stop the exploitation and persecution of the indigo farmers.
Mahatma Gandhi was a great believer in self reliance, he influenced the Indian masses to shun foreign made articles and clothing, Great bon fires of British merchandise and textile were lit all over India at the request of Mahatma Gandhi.
A dejected Mahatma Gandhi refused to accept the vivisection of his beloved motherland and was devastated by the massacres of innocents in the post partition hate riots.
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 Gandhi Jayanti
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace and the father of the nation was born on 2
Gandhi was approached for counsel; and in a meeting of the All India Khilafat Conference on 24 November 1919, he proposed that India should respond by non-violent non-cooperation.
Gandhi was completely disillusioned with the attitude of the British, which had renewed its policy of ruthless repression.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gandhi actively supported the British in World War I in the hope of hastening India's freedom, but he also led agrarian and labor reform demonstrations that embarrassed the British.
When the Congress refused to embrace his program in its entirety, Gandhi withdrew (1934), but his influence was such that Jawaharlal Nehru, his protégé, was named leader of the organization.
Gandhi was a major figure in the postwar conferences with the viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah that led to India's independence and the carving out of a separate Muslim state (Pakistan), although Gandhi vigorously opposed the partition.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gandhi-M1.asp   (786 words)

  
 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand - Great Men and Women of the World
Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the present state of Gujarat on October 2, 1869, and educated in law at University College, London.
Gandhi's advocacy of nonviolence, known as ahimsa (Sanskrit, “noninjury”), was the expression of a way of life implicit in the Hindu religion.
Gandhi stood steadfastly against the partition of India but ultimately had to agree, in the hope that internal peace would be achieved after the Muslim demand for separation had been satisfied.
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 BBC - Religion & Ethics - Mohandas Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mahatma Gandhi has come to be known as the Father of India and a beacon of light in the last decades of British colonial rule, promoting non-violence, justice and harmony between people of all faiths.
Gandhi probably took the religious principle of 'Ahimsa' (doing no harm) from his Jain neighbours, and from it developed his own famous principle of Satyagraha (truth force) later on in his life.
Gandhi's involvement with politics in the region meant that he had to tread carefully around the sometimes conflicting ideals of the Hindus and Muslims in the Indian National Congress.
www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/hinduism/features/gandhi   (874 words)

  
 MAHATMA GANDHI - MAHATMA GANDHI'S BIOGRAPHY, LIFE, INFORMATION, PICTURES
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India.
Gandhi studied law in London and returned to India in 1891 to practice.
Gandhi was arrested many times by the British for his activities in South Africa and India.
www.indianchild.com /mahatma_gandhi.htm   (456 words)

  
 Manas: History and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi
His father died before Gandhi could finish his schooling, and at thirteen he was married to Kasturba [or Kasturbai], who was even younger.
Though his elders objected, Gandhi could not be prevented from leaving; and it is said that his mother, a devout woman, made him promise that he would keep away from wine, women, and meat during his stay abroad.
Gandhi was powerfully attracted to them, as he was to the texts of the major religious traditions; and ironically it is in London that he was introduced to the Bhagavad Gita.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html   (288 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948) most reverently known as Mahatma Gandhi was born in Gujarat.
Mahatma Gandhi who became the leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920 did not always lead the Indian nationalist movement.
Mahatma Gandhi sometimes even attacked the Indian government as not being fair towards Muslims and towards Pakistan.
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 May 12, 1998: Testimony of Ambassador Naresh Chandra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), known to Indians and followers across the world as the "Mahatma", the great soul, led India's nonviolent freedom struggle against British rule and against all forms of social and religious discrimination.
Mahatma Gandhi not only led the movement to bring freedom to his own country, but also provided the inspiration to many a movement in various parts of the world that led to the end of the colonial era.
"Mahatma Gandhi was the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind."
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 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi was born in the small town of Porbandar on October 2, 1869.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is generally regarded as the father of the nation we know as India.
Gandhi was opposed to the Congress decision to accept the division of the country into India and Pakistan.
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 PozA - Pokret za Anarhiju - Anarhisti - Mahatma Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in India and was murdered in 1948 by the fanatic Hindu Nathuram Godsey.
Gandhi was a Hindu as well and born in the second highest cast.
Gandhi thought that the rule over the salt industry was one of the British basics to rule India.
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 TIME 100: Person of the Century - Runner Up: Mohandas Gandhi
The Mahatma, the Great Soul, endures in the best part of our minds, where our ideals are kept: the embodiment of human rights and the creed of nonviolence.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is something else, an eccentric of complex, contradictory and exhausting character most of us hardly know.
No myth raking can rob Gandhi of his moral force or diminish the remarkable importance of this scrawny little man. For the 20th century — and surely for the ones to follow — it is the towering myth of the Mahatma that matters.
www.time.com /time/time100/poc/magazine/mohandas_gandhi12a.html   (682 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi politics B Pijan Lama Jyotisha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"Mahatma" Gandhi might be reviewed in the spiritual, vocation, parent, or education categories with equal relevance.
Gandhi remained in South Africa until the outbreak of World War I, working steadily in a foreign country (Moon in 12) for transformation (Rahu) of the lives of dark outcastes (Rahu).
Upon returning to India, Gandhi was invited to join political actions and quickly became involved in the struggle to obtains the rights of Empire citizenship for common Indians.
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 Mahatma Gandhi : Pictorial Biography
Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2,1869, at Porbandar, on the western coast of India.
Uttamchand Gandhi had his hose besieged and shelled by the ruler’s troops and had to flee the State; his son Karamchand also preferred to leave Porbandar, rather than compromise with his principles.
Karamchand Gandhi was, in the words of his son, "a lover of his clan, truthful, brave, generous." The strongest formative influence on young Mohandas, however, was that of his mother Putlibai.
www.mkgandhi.org /biography/chldhood.htm   (617 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's early years showed little sign of the great life he would go on to live.
Gandhi, until now too shy to even speak in front of a judge, sued the railroad company and won.
But Gandhi's legacy lived on after his death, showing the world that one can be a hero and accomplish great things without guns or swords or hatred.
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 M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence :: About Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mahatma Gandhi was a leader and a friend to all throughout his life.
Traveling to England as a young man, Gandhi studied law and was admitted to the bar.
Gandhi returned to India at the age of 22, to establish a law practice in Bombay.
www.gandhiinstitute.org /AboutGandhi/index.cfm   (607 words)

  
 International Vegetarian Union - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Gandhi stated in The Vegetarian (interview published June 20, 1891) that "I may be said to have known the L.V.S." from the International Vegetarian Congress, held in London, 11-13 September 1890.
It is possible that he was co-opted onto the LVS Committee on Sept 19, but the LVS AGM was on January 9, 1891, and it is more likely that he was elected to the Committe on that date (precise details seem to have been lost).
In February 1891 Gandhi started writing articles for The Vegetarian, a weekly newspaper published independently of LVS but in close connection with it (this is also more consistent with his having joined the Committee in January rather than the previous September).
www.ivu.org /history/gandhi   (1024 words)

  
 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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 Gandhi Audio of My Spiritual Message 1931   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a village in Gujarat province in India in 1869.
Gandhi was visiting London in connection with the Second Round Table Conference to broker a peave between colonial Britain and the broad Indian freedom movement.
This recording was optimized by the musician Max Flury in 2006, and part of the musical CD Gandhi 1001 Ways by Andreas Huber.
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